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Over the years my Sway setup had grown into a pile of independently configured single-purpose tools: a bar, a launcher that also doubled as an emoji picker and power menu, a notification daemon, a lock screen plus idle daemon, a media-key/Bluetooth setup…

Back in 2021 I wrote about dynamic CSS color themes with similar contrasts, where I used a SCSS function to automatically adjust colors to meet the WCAG 7:1 contrast ratio against both a light and a dark background.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post: Encrypted ZFS mirror with mirrored boot on NixOS.

For about 9 years, I’ve been a customer of Google G-Suite, using it for email, file storage, and photos.

For a long time I’ve been running my storage on a 2-disk ZFS mirror.

Tempeh.

After a brief experiment with Hyprland, I’m back to using Sway.

Introduction After four years with Sway, I’ve decided to transition to Hyprland.

This website is hosted on GitHub Pages, built using nix and hugo with a custom theme that I maintain.

NixOS has a lot of configurability and features.

My history with coffee I’ve never been into coffee, every time I’ve tried them as a child or young adult they have been terrible.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, concerns have been raised about the potential dangers of AI becoming too powerful and taking over human civilization.

NixOS is a Linux-distribution that may be source-based, but it has a binary cache that covers things so you generally don’t need to compile things, things tends to be cached.

For over 10 years I’ve used Kodi on a separate PC connected to a TV to play back local media.

Back in 2017, this fairly small company Purism launched a crowdfunding on their own crowdfunding platform for their future phone known as Librem 5.

This blog is built with Emacs, SCSS using Nix and deployed as static files to GitHub Pages.

I’ve been an Emacs user for 13+ years, during this time I’ve been using org-mode on and off for different thing.

Since I’ve started using NixOS about four years ago I haven’t really used any tools to do central deployments of machines.

Switching to Wayland has it’s side-effects, one of which is the improved security from X11 where applications can’t just randomly spy on each other at any point.

Today my work day didn’t turn out the way I expected.

Getting screen sharing to work on Wayland seems to be surprisingly hard.

Like every other desktop Linux user for the past many years I’ve used X11.

A couple of months (after at least half a year of thinking) I finally decided to do it.

This is a follow-up on: Why I use Free Software, Why I got into Veganism.

This is a follow-up on: Why I use Free Software.

This has been followed up by: Why I got into Veganism, I find food habits at Free Software events weird.

Setting up the Weechat Android GitHub Play Store relay client over SSH can be a bit tricky and quite bad at giving useful error messages.

Note: I’m not a doctor, dietitian or ergonomics expert.

This is a follow-up post for my earlier post: NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root.

This post covers both EFI and legacy boot setups.

This is a sneak peak into the future 20.09 release of NixOS.

This is a quite unusual post for this blog, it’s not what I’ve expected to put on here.

So for a long time I have wanted to replace my file server, because it’s an old HP Microserver that is really slow.

Hello world!