oddlama's personal web page and blog
Please Stop Using `nixos-rebuild switch`
Better practices for safely and reliably deploying and updating NixOS systems.
Secrets Don’t Belong in Config
An audit of 445 NixOS modules shows the cost of making configuration and secrets share one interface.
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
trynix — boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser
Pick any package from 13 years of nixpkgs history and boot it in an x86_64 Linux VM in your tab. No server anywhere.
nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon
Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]
Introducing Sequoia: Publishing for the Open Web
Today I'm excited to release a new tool for the AT Protocol: Sequoia. This is a CLI tool that can take your existing self-hosted blog and publish it to the ATmosphere using Standard.site lexicons.
I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
Printed from https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ on September 30, 2026 04:04
First thoughts on integrating with standard.site
Notes on the limitations and unresolved design questions encountered while integrating a blog with standard.site.
AlternativeProto - Decentralized Web Catalog
Discover decentralized alternatives to popular websites and webapps built on the AT Protocol
SkeetBeaver
Free analytics tools for Bluesky/atproto. Lookup user timelines, friends, and followers. Browse and compare user lists. View username changes.
Home | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
A toolkit for open source researchers
I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
