My mostly tech blog

How it all started It all started 2 years ago when I had to replace a broken 10yo mouse I had been using extensively.

In the beginning It all started last year (was it before last year?)

Today I realized I did not think about posting since I’m back from vacation.

Cloud init According to cloud-init.io, Cloud init is: Cloud images are operating system templates and every instance starts out as an identical clone of every other instance.

My selfhosting Journey My journey to self hosting started in the 90s and evolved (good and bad) over the past 25 or so years: Created a Linux router using a 486, some ISA BNC network cards, and a dialup connection with a remote dialup controller.

Context I have been running VMs on XCP-NG for a while now.

Here is how I use my domains.

I did not know what to post next.

You can read part1 here.

Here is a simplified version of how I learn: The sponge phase I document myself about a specific subject (documentation, blogs, books, YouTube, people.

Context My journey with Emacs starting around 1996, while working on a cross platform portfolio management application, especially working on cross platform Windows / Linux GUI based on WxWidgets.

Story and some info about how I fixed some pavers installation miscalculations.

So you’ve got a new shiny blog, or an old one, here is what I find important about RSS.

Pssst - this is a RSS only post.

Back on Nix I’m back on nix.

It’s been couple of months after I migrated back to Guix.

Pssst - this is a RSS only post.

This is my first post since I started my Nix -> Guix migration.

Nix home-manager Nix home-manager has a lot of services.

The most important part of my Nix configuration: nix home manager.

Something I forgot on my last Guix system configuration post, my work VM setup.

This started as a question from Mr.

In this post, I’m starting the analysis phase of migrating to Guix.

It’s Guix season again this year, I’m going back to Guix Linux.

Trying clojure blog generator On my last post, I mentioned I changed my blog setup to cryogen and clojure.

If you read this, it means I’ve moved away from hugo, to a fully custom clojure blogging setup.

The path to replace Hugo.

Pssst - this is a RSS only post.

Pssst - this is a RSS only post.

A bit of my history with editors and IDEs I’ve been using Emacs and vim since the mid 90s.

Pssst - this is a RSS only post.

Blog silent I’ve been blog silent for almost a year now.

Pssst - this is a RSS only post.

It all started that day Two weekends ago, bored, I was looking for something to do.

Adjusting chezmoi to my workflow Today, I’ve been adjusting chezmoi to match my workflow for editing dotfiles.

A need to own your data The workday today ended with my friend and work buddy telling me it’s about time he own and centralize his data (for him, wife and kids).

Where are my USB drives?

A curse and/or a blessing?

On this post, I’ll go over WYSIWYG apps, and effective alternatives.

Been quite busy in the last couple of weeks.

As part of my renewed dotfiles setup and dev box setup, I’m taking the opportunity to update my core suckless.org tools: st, dwm, dmenu.

I’m creating this post after seeing many people suffering and manually addressing merge conflicts while integrating patches with dwm, st, or dmenu code base.

I’m creating this post after seeing numerous people suffering and manually addressing merge conflicts while integrating patches with dwm, st, or dmenu code base.

Part 5 of the series How I use Linux desktop at work where I describe how I’m building a new Vagrant configuration to use for coding on Windows Host systems.

Part 4 of the series How I use Linux desktop at work where I describe how I’m building a new Vagrant configuration to use for coding on Windows Host systems.

Part 3 of the series How I use Linux desktop at work Just to recap, this series is describing how I leverage vagrant and VirtualBox to provision development VM on my work PCs.

Part 2 of the series How I use Linux desktop at work Just to recap, this series is describing how I leverage vagrant and VirtualBox to provision development VM on my work PCs.

Most coders is large companies are facing the same situation: We develop for Linux servers, but we are running on Windows or MacOS boxes.

In this second post, I’ll go over my thought process to create / publish a blog using markup languages and couple of tools.

Like many, I’ve been thinking about sharing using a personal blog.