2023
Entries
2023-12-03 Passing NixOS Flake Inputs Through Colmena - How to pass a flake input from a top-level infrastructure flake into the individual nodes (servers) so a single lock file can handle all changes.
2023-12-02 Enforcing Standards with NixOS - A way of using Nix and direnv to hook up standards for formatting and conventions.
2023-11-30 Package Management - Formats and Registries - Thoughts on setting up formats and layering registries for those formats on top of each other.
2023-11-20 These Last Few Months - A lot has been going on in the last few months, much of which has been radio silence for me as I fixated on getting everything moving as smoothly as I can before things crumbled.
2023-09-20 Package Management - Identifiers 2 - Using URNs to identify packages and some re-thinking of concepts.
2023-08-21 The passing of Kenneth Evans Jr. - On July 30, my dad died.
2023-06-27 Fedran Infrastructure Redux - Just a follow up on a few things I had to do to get my Fedran infrastructure behaving better and not chewing up time and bandwidth once a day.
2023-06-24 Fedran Infrastructure - In the last month, I've been doing a lot of writing and programming. I also finished a good-sized around of "fun coding" with Fedran.
2023-05-23 Twenty-Three Years - Twenty-three years ago (and a week ago), I got married.
2023-05-13 NixOS, Gitea/Forgejo, and Catppuccin - How to pull the official Catppuccin theme into Gitea using NixOS.
2023-05-01 Things Moving Forward - The last two weeks have been a lot more relaxed than the previous ones. I got things done and life is settling down, which is nice. Plus I had a really good week with the family.
2023-04-15 Obligations Hanging Over Me - It has been a busy month with many obligations intruding in my life.
2023-03-15 Rumors of my dead garden links were exaggerated - Fixed an embarrassing removal of a lot of links in my Exit Planning and other garden plots due to an unrelated feature.
2023-03-13 A Little Vacation - I'm going to take a two week vacation from work and already have al it of things to do.
2023-02-13 Package Management - Dependencies - A review of different styles of package dependencies, including across different ecosystems, and then an attempt to consolidate them into a single unified system.
2023-02-12 Package Management - Identifiers - A short discussion on how to identify packages.
2023-02-08 Package Management - Versions - A short discussion on packages and their versions.
2023-02-07 Package Management - Introduction - The beginning of a short series as I write down my ideas of an ideal package system with the future goal of writing a generic system called Bakfu.
2023-01-29 A Week of Dependencies plus Nor Curse Be Found 13 - To write a chapter in Nor Curse Be Found, I ended up spending three days working on projects and tasks that needed to be done to provide the tools I use while writing.
2023-01-21 Faking Time Magic with Nitride - Just a little summary of how to handle time while generating sites with Nitride.