Sorry, but the experiment with running my sites on nixos at Hetzner has come to an end. I was patching my host like a good sa, but something broke and my sites would not load. I could not find anything in the logs, so I gave up and moved back to a host build using ArchLinux and not containers.
Yes, I know I will have to stay on top of things a bit more, but since I use hugo, my attack service is a bit lower. (fingers crossed)
I am back to Linode (referral link), running Caddy.
I do my web site coding elsewhere and push the results up. I am going to try to update this and my other sites a bit more regularly, but we will see.
After last week’s series of post, I decided to revisit a
post from 6 years ago, which in itself revisiting a post from 19 years ago
called What Do I Use? which listed some of the software I used on a daily basis.
And, guess what? It is still pretty much the same software.
| Original |
Past |
Preset |
Comments |
| bash - my shell of choice |
Still Bash |
Still bash |
Why change something that works |
| screen - a shell multiplexer and more |
tmux |
tmux + tmuxinator |
Scripted tmux? Yes, please |
| mutt-ng - a mua on steroids |
mutt |
neomutt |
Better intergration with other tools |
| centericq - IM. How do you stay in touch? |
nothing |
Still nothing I have found that I like |
CLI chat is mainly dead, sadly |
| snownews - an RSS feed reader |
newsboat |
Same |
Feed readers are still a thing |
| calcurse - a calendar/todo manger |
Sadly, Google Calendar |
khal |
Now, backed by Nextcloud |
| bashblogger - the CMS for this site |
Hugo |
Still Hugo |
Have not found anything easier for me |
Well, aside from the burst of posts, it as been a spell since I last posted
something. Sorry about that.
Well, I think my little ‘Challenge with NixOS’ which I started way back in
January 2023 has been passed. I have one local server, one local ‘appliance’, and one VPS not on NixOS. Everything
else has been converted for a while. Keeping my laptops’ config synced turned out to be a good thing. My main
laptop ate its drive just before work one morning, I was able to grab the pixelbook and
start working as it was fully configured, and the needed data was synced in place. Nice.
Speaking of pixelbooks, I picked up a ’new’ 2017 PixelBook. This one is the i7 with a nvme drive and a battery in great
shape. I can take it to the office and never have to plug it in using it for my video calls and music player.
Still at the same job I started back November 2016. Yikes. I will try to update this more with more technical stuff, I
hope.
Oh, I changed the theme because the old one had not been updated in a long time, and I was getting tired of the security
notifications.