NixOS

A source-based Linux distribution that provides (mostly) reproducible deployments but adds a significant amount of complexity to day-to-day operations.

• 2024-03-21 Switching Ceph to SeaweedFS on NixOS - Over the new year, I decided to get SeaweedFS working on my home lab and eventually took down my Ceph cluster to move everything over.

• 2024-03-03 NixOS and NextCloud - Just a few tips on getting NextCloud 28 working with NixOS, plus a copy of my .nix file that I got working.

• 2024-11-08 Why SeaweedFS? - Thoughts on why I take the effort to use a distributed network drive for my home.

• 2024-10-25 Recovering SeaweedFS - I accidentally overfilled my SeaweedFS, here is how I recovered my cluster.

• 2025-06-07 Using Nitride - Introduction - I'm going to start a long, erratic journey to update my publisher website. Along the way, I'm going to document how to create a MfGames.Nitride website from the ground up, along with a lot of little asides about reasoning or purpose.

• 2023-12-02 Enforcing Standards with NixOS - A way of using Nix and direnv to hook up standards for formatting and conventions.

• 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.

• 2024-01-05 Teaching NixOS about OpenTofu - In my endless quest to come up with a completely data-driven and reproducible environment, I decided to take a stab at a new instance automation tool: OpenTofu.

• 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.

• 2023-01-29 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.

• 2023-05-13 NixOS, Gitea/Forgejo, and Catppuccin - How to pull the official Catppuccin theme into Gitea using NixOS.

• 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.

• 2022-12-10 Ceph and NixOS - Some things I've figured out trying to get Ceph working on my NixOS system.