June 11, 2024

my alternative to google photos

Table of Contents Introduction Walled garden The solution syncthing picman photoprism honorable mention: Photostructure Introduction Google photos was amazing in the beginning, the photos application did what I wanted and in general it was a good experience I was somewhat of an early adopter, so I had a plethora of photos stored in google photos. I didn’t really have to think about photos, it was just handled for me.

February 2, 2024

nix resources

Table of Contents nix flakes nixos home-manager hydra (build system) Fun Stuff the biggest hurdle in getting into nix is having the revelvant documentation available. This page is just another collection of useful resources to support success. nix nix the language nixhub https://www.nixhub.io/packages/mysql newer documentation https://nix.dev/ nix-search-cli https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli nix-pills: Interesting information if you want to know how nix works. A little dated. https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills nix packge versions - https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/ unstable https://lazamar.

December 31, 2023

picman: photo sorting tool

github https://github.com/sigmonsays/picman I wrote a basic tool to replace my krufty bash scripts that imports my photos from various locations into their final resting place. The tool operates in steps where each step is kind of idempotent. The set of all steps is called a workflow and operates on a single file. see code. Each step operates on the same workflow object, which primarily has a state object State Object code

December 27, 2023

nix tip: nvd to see what is going to change

have you ever wanted to see what packages are going to change before updating them on nix? Well read on to find out how to do this with home-manager and nixos First, there is a few different ways i came across Table of Contents A naive approach nix store diff-closure nvd nix-diff A naive approach I wondered since everything is in the nix store, why not just diff it? So as an experiment I set off to do just that

December 20, 2023

nix tip: shell shabang

A feature I discovered recently is that nix-shell can be used as an interpreter #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #!nix-shell -i bash -p bash htop echo hello world which htop It even works for python #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3Packages.pillow python3Packages.ansicolor # scale image by 50% import sys, PIL.Image, ansicolor path = sys.argv[1] image = PIL.Image.open(path) factor = 0.5 image = image.resize((round(image.width * factor), round(image.height * factor))) path = path + ".

December 14, 2023

nix-direnv

Table of Contents direnv nix-direnv Nix Shell Rust development environment Go development environment Nix Shell and Flakes Audio / Video Transcoding tools Photos and Videos Static Website Emacs hey gcroots, save some of that garbage! References direnv The power of nix with direnv is easy to understate. This post is to explains some ways to use it. direnv is a nice tool to use which allows you to load the appropriate environment variables when you cd to a specific directory.

July 5, 2023

nix and nixos

Table of Contents Summary Why NixOS NixOS Home Manager Build Docker Containers Development Shells Nix Cache Flakes Resources Summary Nix is difficult to learn but the promises are appealing with a bit of effort. The effort required may not be worth it to some people. Nix overall has so many features that it’s worth understanding what’s possible with nix you can build docker containers build qemu images install packages per user or system build development shells runs everywhere - linux, nixos, macos, windows+WSL nix cache (https://cachix.

January 29, 2023

dotbot

Table of Contents why dotbot why dotbot is a tool to manage dot files. I wrote this tool after gettting tired of futzing around with the python dotbot from https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot. Full disclosure I love this tool and it’s the motivation for the development of my own dotbot. I had two main issues that were annoying to me. First, git submodules were a part of the bootstrap process. Second, I always needed some yaml dependancy installed.

November 14, 2022

My Emacs Kit

This document will be a living document that i’ll attempt to update from time to time Table of Contents Intro Pico and Nano Vim doom emacs emacs28 with native compilation Markdown mode Org mode and babel Intro I’ve been using doom-emacs for over a year now (since March 2021) and this is my personal experiences with it. I do not put a ton of effort into editors, rather I spend a chunk of time intermittently.

April 24, 2020

Trump

Trump owes millions to state-owned bank in China https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/newly-revealed-financial-records-show-trump-owes-millions-to-state-owned-bank-in-china-report/ trump will rip off anyone even if he says he’ll pay https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/i-sold-trump-100000-worth-of-pianos-then-he-stiffed-me-a7335951.html