A Simple GitHub Actions Pipeline for Releasing Container Images

If you're hosting your software project on GitHub and it runs in a container, here's a dead-simple, drop in GitHub Actions pipeline

A Nix overlay for Emacs 27 with the 'emacs-mac' patches

With the recent release of Emacs 27.1, I figured I'd share a Nix overlay I'm using to build it with the 'emacs-mac' patches.

"Cloud-like" Infrastructure at Home - Part 1: LoadBalancers on the Metal

This is the introductory post to a series outlining how I achieve "Cloud-like" application deployments on my personal servers. If you're interested in Platform Engineering/SRE/DevOps, read on

spacebar module in nix-darwin now generally available

To accompany my post from yesterday for the yabai module in nix-darwin, I'm happy to announce there is now also a module for installing and configuring spacebar

yabai module in nix-darwin now generally available

As of ~2 hours ago, a Nix module to install & configure yabai is now generally available on the master branch of nix-darwin

Nix Generator Functions for Sway

A short & sweet post on using the Nix language to generate Sway config 🥝

Managing Firefox on macOS with Nix

In this post I'll talk about how I manage Firefox and mimick some of the behaviours/aesthetics I'd come to enjoy from using other browsers over the years.

Keeping Up Appearances: Non-native macOS Light/Dark Mode

I like the auto light/dark mode feature of macOS, it's nice to have your system change in the evening as the sun sets - less strain on the eyes if a night of hacking is ahead. But I spend most of my time either in a terminal or in Emacs, so don't really see much of a difference. I was wondering if I could somehow invoke arbitrary commands when the system changed, that way I could run whatever I need to change from a light theme to a dark theme in other applications.

Emacs: Making NeoTree work with Perspectives

Fixing a bug with NeoTree & Perspectives integration

Your own VPN with OpenIKED & OpenBSD

Secure, private access to your home network with OpenBSD & OpenIKED