Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
I have decided to get back into tinkering with my Raspberry Pi. I will be blogging my journey as I stumble through my initial playing, through to building out my first proper homelab. This first Raspberry Pi (model 2b) will be initially used as both a wireguard VPN server and a local DNS server.
The God Slayer by Otep
I’ve loved Otep’s music since discovering the album “Sevas Tra” — with that insane album cover being the thing that brought me in. Earlier today (yesterday) I listened to the recently-released The God Slayer, made up of half original songs and half covers. Loved it, although Sevas Tra has been — and remains — my […]
Getting Postgres logs in a GitHub Action
Get occasionally-indispensible Postgres logging detail with three lines of YAML.
Running NixOS on Proxmox
Compatibility: These instructions work as of Proxmox 8.x and NixOS 24.05.
One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under Proxmox, my preferred virtual machine server.
Through some trial and error, I figured out how to install NixOS as a Proxmox container.
Download the NixOS container image
First, download the latest NixOS x86_x64 lxdContainerImage image. For other hardware architectures, see this GitHub comment.
I was a guest on the inaugural DevRelShow and chatted about what DevRel is about, my new job at WeAreDevelopers and showed some cool tools
Yesterday evening my former colleague Fred Harper invited me to be his first guest on his new DevRelShow. For about 70 minutes we talked about all things Developer Relations, how to get started as a developer advocate and I showed some tools to make it easier for you. I also covered how I wrote the […]