I keep getting questions about how to start with Nix. I believe the way to go in 2022 is to start with Flakes, so in this post I'll describe just that.
If you want to learn Nix from first principles instead, I recommend Nix Pills and nix.dev.
The switch from Puppeteer to Playwright is easy. But is it worth it? And how exactly does one migrate existing scripts from one tool to another? What are the required code-level changes, and what new features and approaches does the switch enable?
Monitor, Control and Debug Docker Containers with WhaleDeck
Only available for MacOS, WhaleDeck connects to your Linux servers hosting Docker containers and simplifies a number of tasks associated with container management.
Setting up BIND to get the letsencrypt wildcards to work on your system using RFC 2136
(Which destination has to be used?) Wildcard Certificate with letsencrypt I have my own DNS, so I need to set it up myself to get letsencrypt to work as expected and generate a wildcard certificate for my websites. They decided to test the DNS because that way they know you are in control of the domain and its sub-domains (only the owner of a
Which exactly DNS record does Let's Encrypt use to perform DNS-01 challenge validation?
I have some SMTP servers (and others) which live behind the NAT and it is infeasible to configure DNAT for HTTP or reverse proxies for them. This means, HTTP-01 and TLS-ALPN-01 are unavailable, so ...
Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of “these” websites. It’s much more complicated than you might think.
Declarative Docker Container Service in NixOS | The Farming Coders
Important Update 2020.05.24 After upgrading to 20.03 version of NixOS, the docker container starts to use the container’s actual name instead of its systemd service’s name to address the container. This means that to specify the database container from the filerun web server’s container, you need to change the value of FR_DB_HOST from docker-filerun-mariadb.service to filerun-mariadb.
The Problem One of the biggest convenience you have in NixOS is that many of the services you want to run are already coded as a “service”.
In this guide, we will cover the process of installing and using Timeshift on Debian 12. It allows you to create and restore system snapshots effortlessly.
