Chris Portela's Digital Home

I was reading a blog post about using remote ssh from Cursor/VS Code and it mentioned, sort of offhandedly, to double-check you were not using the wrong SSH config in Cursor or VS Code.

If you’re considering getting a domain for yourself with your name, I have some things you may want to consider first.

Installing macOS 26 (developer.apple.com) on UTM requires a special package for it to work.

I have been managing my dotfiles using Nix with Home Manager (github.com) for quite a long time.

About a year ago I moved into a new apartment complex with managed smart door locks.

A few years ago there was a crowd funding campaign on CrowdSupply1 for an interesting project called DiceKeys.

I like to keep this website extremely simple and not just from a design perspective, but from a maintenance perspective too.

I got an error when I was trying to pull from a bare repo on an external hard drive: error: dst ref refs/heads/synced/git-annex receives from more than one src It was on my NAS and I also got some Write errors which made me think it was some issue with N…

I’ve published my updated dotfiles on github.

Recently I rented a new dedicated server in a Miami Data Center to have a bunch of remote compute at my disposal to use from things like my phone and Macbook Air1.

In the past few years I’ve had several chances to setup CI/CD workflows for various projects for my employer and client’s projects.

Today I spent some time setting up NixOS on Windows 11 with Hyper-V and it turned out pretty good.

Apple’s march of releasing very efficient and fast computers using their new M1[ Pro/Max] processors has long been leading me dream about how nice it would be to distribute how I do my work to more computers.

I find myself being the person friends and family often come to for information.

In the past few days… a lot has happened.

I don’t update this website enough, but there is always something I’d like to add similar to how I dump things into my notebook in Notion.

Look in to `uv` PyEnv is still very useful, but these days switching your project over to uv is preferable simply for the seamless management of specific python versions and improved performance over pip.

There are a couple languages out there at excite me a lot to think about.