How to debug your initramfs init

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Linus Heckemann Today, I wanted to try out ListenBrainz in conjunction with my self-hosted Navidrome music server. I didn’t want to collect new data for several days before getting interesting suggestions from there, so I had to import some historical...

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Linus Heckemann Warning: this post is for entertainment purposes only and explains a hack that everybody may hate you for actually using, as well as post-hoc justification for the hack. Proceed with caution. Sometimes I have a piece of code where I want to...

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Linus Heckemann Nix is a powerful tool for making software builds repeatable. By specifying a build as a derivation, with all its inputs “locked” either through content hashes or as derivations themselves, we can easily achieve the same software build...

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Linus Heckemann If you’re taking your NixOS laptop offline for a bit for travel or similar, and you end up trying to reconfigure, you may run into issues because some build dependency of your system is missing – especially if you’ve garbage-collected since...

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Linus Heckemann This is my talk from NixCon 2022, converted with minimal changes into blog post format. What? NixOS is an operating system based on the Nix package manager and Linux. Linux is an operating system kernel, which means it runs on hardware and...