Software My home server is now running on NixOS I decided to migrate my home server from ArchLinux ARM to NixOS to have a reproducible system based on a single configuration. My goal is to have more web services run with the…
Software NixOS development progress for upcoming 21.11 release The upcoming NixOS 21.11 release will include new packages, modules and some exciting technological changes under the hood. Here is a list of some updates I’m waiting for and some contributions I made…
Travel Basic Wander-Packliste für Selbstversorger Alles notwendige dabei haben, ohne sich abzuschleppen. Bei jedem Wetter in der Natur (auf)gehen. Kaffee am Berg genießen und sich die kalten Fingern an einem frisch gesammelten Wildkräutertee wärmen. Um für all das…
Software Share printer via AirPrint with NixOS I started to migrate my ARM homeserver to NixOS and was able to configure the printer together with AirPrint enabled network sharing. Here’s a short how-to. The following excerpt of my NixOS system…
Software postmarketOS development status 2021 In the last few months I was looking into adding support for some older Android phones to postmarketOS. Porting an existing downstream kernel to a real Linux operating system for mobile systems wasn’t…
Hardware Mobile timber-framed cork sauna I built a small, lightweight sauna that sits on a trailer ready to be taken to a nearby lake. Its half-timbered construction is time consuming to build but offers appealing aesthetics. Following the…
Software Using Virtio-FS directory sharing together with NixOps libvirtd backend Virtio-FS is the newest technique to share directories of the host system to a virtualized guest machine managed by libvirt. This example will show you how to use it in NixOps to automatically…
Software Blender Addon: Node Preview Ever since Blender made the switch to the Cycles renderer back in 2011, its shader nodes have lacked an interactive preview for each node. I spent the first months of 2021 writing an…
