ibizaman's Blog

Posted on September 9, 2026 Tags: nix, testing, playwright, selfhostblocks My project SelfHostBlocks (SHB), pushes the boundaries for setting up features declaratively through nix.

Posted on September 1, 2026 Tags: home-assistant, nextcloud Home-Assistant can connect to “subscription calendars” and you can then use those events to trigger automations.

Posted on September 1, 2026 Tags: nix, esp, iot Context The problem The fix Conclusion Bonus I must admit I never understood the purpose of buildFHSEnv… Until I bumped into the issue that it solved!

Posted on August 22, 2026 Tags: nix, tests, playwright, ldap, sso, selfhostblocks There is one thing I hate the most in the DevOps world.

Posted on July 4, 2026 Tags: nix, esp, iot I have an Atom Lite and wanted to use it to install ESPSomfy-rts on it with a E07-M1101D antenna.

Posted on May 12, 2026 Tags: nix, forge action, auto update First Automation Attempt Naive Commit Selection Smarter Commit Selection Manual Run Links Possible Improvement Upstreaming I maintain the SelfHostBlocks project.

Posted on May 1, 2026 Tags: nix, emacs 1.

Posted on June 1, 2025 Tags: qemu, nix Nix CDROM (sr0) Iso file in Nix EFI SATA (sdX) drive NVMe (nvmeX) drive Qemu’s documentation is a bit scattered around the web.

Posted on March 23, 2025 Tags: nix, server Scaffolding Generate a SSH keypair Configuration for the Server Host Configuration for the Client Host Cleanup Conclusion Let’s see how to grant ourselves ssh access form a client host to a server host using NixO…

Posted on March 10, 2025 Tags: nix Hibernation was broken for me since a long time.

Posted on March 1, 2025 Tags: jellyfin The goal is to create a user in Jellyfin that can only see media files that have a given tag, say “kids”, and that tag was set inside Radarr, Sonarr or another *arr application.

Posted on November 28, 2024 Tags: nix Why Skipping this Step is a Good Idea Why Does Host Key Verification Exist Pre-Seed the Host Key This post goes over how to create a new server and be able to ssh into it without needing to go through the ssh host ver…

Posted on September 3, 2024 Tags: nix, nextcloud, systemd, iot, server So I wanted to show family pictures on the TV.

Posted on August 7, 2024 Tags: nix Context Starting Small Going Deeper Analyzing Store Size Analyzing Store Size Some More Let’s step back Context So you want to cleanup the Nix store.

Posted on July 10, 2024 Tags: git, performance It’s no secret that the nixpkgs repo is quite big.

Posted on July 8, 2024 Tags: go, testing Context Integration Tests Where Mocks Fail Where Stubs Shine Conclusion Context In a previous post, I wrote about how using stateful property testing helped us find test cases that were hard to find by hand.

Posted on July 3, 2024 Tags: nix Context Flake Input Give the Inputs to the NixOS Configuration NixOS with nixos-rebuild Darwin NixOS with colmena Common Config In Practice Context So I have this repository for my Emacs config.

Posted on June 13, 2024 Tags: nix Context Potential Harmful Change Impossible to Recover Did not Test Bonus Stress Inducing Factor Recovery Overview NixOS Recovery USB stick nixos-enter flake Update Configuration nixos-rebuild Unmount Cleanly Takeaway Con…

Posted on May 24, 2024 Tags: nix When evaluating a nix expression, sometimes you get a failure.

Posted on April 15, 2024 Tags: nix After a while without removing old generations, I got into a pickle.

Posted on March 22, 2024 Tags: jellyfin, iot Libreelec is a Linux distribution optimized to run Kodi.

Posted on February 27, 2024 Tags: go, testing Our Initial Problem - A Driver Migration Business Logic Led To Combinatory Explosion When Testing Property Testing Stateful Property Testing Stateful Property Testing to Tame The Combinatory Explosion Great Su…

Posted on February 23, 2024 Tags: nix, nextcloud I want Digikam to access Nextcloud storage using WebDav.

Posted on February 9, 2024 Tags: nix, zfs I resisted long enough.

Posted on December 25, 2023 Tags: nix, ci This is pretty cool.

Posted on December 11, 2023 Tags: nextcloud, postgresql, performance My Nextcloud instance feels… sluggish, for lack of better term.

Posted on December 3, 2023 Tags: nix After running a nix build command and getting an error, the output usually prompts you to run nix log like so: For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/iyp0l0h9ik0zkmmg8ryxmb8y15a32apz-self-host-blocks-manual.drv' This is

Posted on December 3, 2023 Tags: nix By default, you use the root user to deploy to a target machine.

Posted on December 2, 2023 Tags: nix, blog Motivation I wanted to use flakes to build this blog since quite a while but never got to it.

Posted on November 26, 2023 Tags: nix edit 2024-06-15: fix snippet Following the trail from discourse to a closed GitHub pull request to a comment in a second GitHub pull request :) I’m happy to share that we can now easily apply patches to nixpkgs itself.

Posted on November 8, 2023 Tags: nix The Incentive section explains why I even wanted to do this.

Posted on October 26, 2023 Tags: The Issue Prerequisite The CLI Way to Migrate Data The Web UI Way to Migrate Data Conclusion The Issue When setting up Nextcloud for the first time, I created some users.

Posted on August 12, 2023 Tags: nextcloud, performance Accessing Nextcloud’s web UI, using http, seems reasonably fast but accessing the webdav interface is painfully slow.

Posted on July 2, 2023 Tags: nix, server This post will show one way to backup Home Assistant automatically.

Posted on June 25, 2023 Tags: grafana I had this problem where in grafana I wanted to show the increase of a gauge or counter over time.

Posted on May 15, 2023 Tags: server, nix This blog post recaps how to install NixOS with only a WiFi connection, how to manage the WiFi connection declaratively and how to encrypt the passphrase during deploy.

Posted on May 12, 2023 Tags: server, nix I am writing this blog post because, although all the documentation is available online, it is not always obvious how all the parts should fit together.

Posted on May 9, 2023 Tags: emacs, hakyll With the following snippet, I can call M-x hakyll-blog-new-post, fill in the title and get started writing right away.

Posted on May 8, 2023 Tags: emacs I created a custom shortcut Meta-T in KDE with the following trigger: emacsclient -e "(org-capture)" --create-frame I went with calling org-capture directly as that shows a buffer where I can choose which template to use.

Posted on April 21, 2023 Tags: nix, server Setting Sops is done by following the steps in the README file.

Posted on October 9, 2021 Tags: server Note: since I wrote this blog post, I switched to using NixOS.

Posted on October 5, 2021 Tags: server Note: since I wrote this blog post, I switched to using NixOS.

Posted on October 22, 2020 Tags: hakyll Let’s add some tags to each blog post.

Posted on October 20, 2020 Tags: misc It’s kind of obvious in retrospective, but I try to pay attention when I’m writing something on the internet.

Posted on October 17, 2020 Tags: hakyll, haskell, nix, emacs, lsp, systemd We need to make Emacs find Haskell executables through Nix.

Posted on October 16, 2020 Tags: hakyll, haskell, nix I want to use GitHub Pages because it is a very simple to use static site server and it is readily available when using GitHub.

Posted on October 16, 2020 Tags: hakyll This is “just” a matter of creating a CSS file and adding it to the repository.

Posted on October 15, 2020 Tags: misc I wanted to start writing a blog since a long time.

Posted on October 15, 2020 Tags: hakyll, haskell, nix This blog post explains how to setup this site.