Linus's blog

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Linus Heckemann Sometimes, you need to deal with secrets in an interactive shell.

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Linus Heckemann Today, I wanted to try out ListenBrainz in conjunction with my self-hosted Navidrome music server.

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Linus Heckemann Warning: this post is for entertainment purposes only and explains a hack that everybody may hate you for actually using, as well as post-hoc justification for the hack.

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Linus Heckemann So you find yourself in an awkward situation.

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Linus Heckemann Nix is a powerful tool for making software builds repeatable.

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Linus Heckemann If you’re taking your NixOS laptop offline for a bit for travel or similar, and you end up trying to reconfigure, you may run into issues because some build dependency of your system is missing – especially if…

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Linus Heckemann This is my talk from NixCon 2022, converted with minimal changes into blog post format.

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Linus Heckemann I love NixOS.

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Linus Heckemann The work on QEMU and this post was paid for by Determinate Systems, and the post was co-published on the Determinate Systems blog.

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Linus Heckemann This was originally posted on the Mayflower NixOS blog.