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I added Pagefind to my website, and decided to write a UI for it from scratch

A look into some of the ways that server software and other daemons handle reading secrets

Using systemd credential support outside and inside NixOS containers

Making self-contained SVGs where fonts look right

A look at the history of embrace, extend, extinguish and its possible future

Using the CSS capabilities of SVG to make images which adapt to the preferred color scheme

One of those blog posts on somebody's website that's about their website

A look into how NixOS is installed, and how to do it in unusual ways

A look at two different times when spoiling Harry Potter was a thing

A broad overview of how Nix derivations work, and how they are affected by Git export substitutions breaking reproducibility

Configuring Nginx under NixOS to serve responses compressed with Brotli

Discussing OpenType features, Nix derivations, and lazy Git as I install some fonts

Converting a Home Manager configuration on non-NixOS to use Nix flakes

Interesting science fiction books I have read, October 2020

I stumble my way towards a Fail2ban filter

My thoughts about the Nim programming language after trying it out

An overview of the different ways of describing images in HTML

Why and how I moved from Lektor to Hugo

CSS support for dark modes, and its use in Firefox

Notes on the state of emoji rendering on Linux

Some notes on how to render stuff using isometric tile sprites

Building collaboration graphs out of Git repositories in Python

An overview of how things like Mastodon toots can be stored in Perkeep

Some remarks about Lektor and other static site generators