A broad overview of how Nix derivations work, and how they are affected by Git export substitutions breaking reproducibility
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Git export substitutions and reproducibility Brotlifying Nginx under NixOS Configuring Nginx under NixOS to serve responses compressed with Brotli
Installing and patching fonts with Home Manager Discussing OpenType features, Nix derivations, and lazy Git as I install some fonts
Switching non-NixOS Home Manager to flakes Converting a Home Manager configuration on non-NixOS to use Nix flakes
Science fiction I've read recently Interesting science fiction books I have read, October 2020
Writing Fail2ban filters I stumble my way towards a Fail2ban filter
Nim impressions My thoughts about the Nim programming language after trying it out
HTML and captions An overview of the different ways of describing images in HTML
Moving to Hugo Why and how I moved from Lektor to Hugo
Dark mode on the web CSS support for dark modes, and its use in Firefox
Displaying emoji on Linux Notes on the state of emoji rendering on Linux
Tiling isometric tiles Some notes on how to render stuff using isometric tile sprites
Collaboration graphs and Git Building collaboration graphs out of Git repositories in Python
Keeping things in Perkeep An overview of how things like Mastodon toots can be stored in Perkeep
Adventures in generating static sites Some remarks about Lektor and other static site generators