Vladimir Timofeenko's blog

A learn in public post on building a multi-button remote control with ESP32, esphome and Home Assistant.

A primer on writing flake-parts reusable flake modules.

Overview of the flake.nix file, its components and what they are used for.

A literate programming Doom emacs setup centered around GTD and Nix development.

For a while I have been playing with the idea of running services in Linux namespaces to achieve network isolation from the “host” system on Linux.

A continuation of previous post with the instruction to unlock encrypted root partition during boot.

This post describes the procedure to unlock LUKS2 partition using X509 certificate stored on Nitrokey Storage.

This post describes the steps needed to set up signature verification on a git-based non-official Gentoo ebuild repository.

An outline of a migration of a Gentoo installation from no-multilib profile to a multilib one without a full reinstall.

A few configuration steps after installing mutt-wizard.

This article talks about how one can use nginx to create SSL proxies for docker (and, potentially, other) services running in the local (e.g. home) network.

This is a guide describing how to set up Firefox with firejail + AppArmor with password management in pass.