Setting up a Clan machine using PXE boot
Can't find your drive to make a live USB? No problem, PXE boot has your back. I used it to provision a NixOS machine using Clan.
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NixCon 2026 Workshop - Joining the Tangled Network
The Tangled code forge has really hit its stride in development and offers a lot of interesting features like vouching and CI. Plus lots and lots of NixOS Support
NixCon 2026 Day 2
Day 2 of NixCon 2926 is the first conference day with presentations.
Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS
If you want to use hibernate you need swap space and that complicates your choice around ZRAM and ZSWAP. I made several wrong choices before I found the correct one.
Non-obvious Nix Options
You followed the NixOS installation guide, now what? Awash in a sea of nix options what are you missing in your config?
Building a Better Dog Camera Part 1 - Raspberry Pi with NixOS
I'll say up top that this part was unfinished before I moved on to my second attempt. So
My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI Cable
It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to get a comfortable couch gaming experience.
Hello Walter! Learning Rust on ESP32
The Walter is an ESP32-S3 module with LTE-M, and GPS. Literally perfect for my BeaconDB wardriving experiments. I now have Embassy all set up on it.
Trying out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait For An Invite
OK, I'm actually a little impatient to use the new open source schedule booking tool by the Thunderbird team that will be a part of Thunderbird Pro.
Polygenic Risk Score for Coronary Artery Disease "At Home"
Way back in the day I used 23andMe. So lets do some analysis with plink and PRSice-2 to calculate a polygenic risk score for coronary artery disease.
(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
A look back at what it took for me to reach 0% Steam play time on Windows, even though I've been using Linux since I was a kid. Spoilers: Valve and the FOSS community are what made this possible.
Installing Jellyfin Tizen On Your Inlaw's Samsung TV In Just N Simple Steps
No. It was not simple. I like to self host Jellyfin. I like to use it when I travel. How hard could it be to install Jellyfin on a Samsung TV?
Using Self-hosting Language Models So You Can Evaluate Claude Code
Because why would I pay Anthropic when I could do this myself with Qwen3-coder, Ollama, and LiteLLM on NixOS. Especially if I just want to try the tool out and see if its worth using.
Review of HackerBox 0118 - More Human
"We do what we must, because we can." A some-what AI themed electronics kit where I use Raspberry Pi Pico 2W as an Arduino.
Setting up my new Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition with NixOS
Declarative partitioning with Disko, hibernate with LUKS, and Lanzeboote, oh my!