Tech articles

Hey here are some articles about technical issues. Most of them are about NixOS topics, because it is the OS of my choice.

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• Coding for Humans : naming things

  Coding is hard, it seems. I frequently face the same problems.

• Language Server

  How to setup your projects using lsp, emacs (or your favorite editor), direnv and nix-shell.

• nix-instantiate

  I like NixOS and the way modules work. I miss them when I do tasks in other languages that have less power than NixOS, for example Ansible and Terraform. Luckily all these tools can be configured via JSON, and Nix can easily create JSON.

• krops

  krops is an alternative to NixOps trying to solve some of theses flaws, with some very simple concepts. In this article we will checkout on how to deploy a server using krops and discuss all involved parameters and steps.

• tinc

  In this article I will describe how to use my NixOS tinc-module. I had to write my own, because the standard `services.tinc` module misses a lot of features, for example forwarding to sub-networks and network wise activation and deactivation. I designed it to work nicely with NixOps.