Deploying Elixir/Phoenix on NixOS — What Actually Works
Hard-won patterns for packaging Elixir releases with Nix, running multiple instances on the same host, and avoiding the pitfalls that NixOS makes easy to fall into.
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Solving the NixOS SOPS Bootstrap Problem
When your NixOS host needs decrypted secrets to build its own configuration but can't decrypt them until after it's built — and how nixos-rebuild's --target-host and --build-host flags solve the chicken-and-egg problem elegantly.
Deploying NixOS on OVH Kimsufi with nixos-anywhere
How to take over an OVH Kimsufi dedicated server with nixos-anywhere, disko, and mdadm RAID — plus wrestling with Java Web Start KVM consoles in 2026.
A Lightweight Prometheus Exporter for Bhyve VMs
Why I wrote a simple Prometheus exporter for FreeBSD bhyve VMs managed by vm-bhyve, and how to use it.
Bootstrapping NixOS with a Template Generator
How a Rust-based template generator turns the boilerplate of adding a new NixOS host to a dotfiles flake into a guided, repeatable process.
Flutter and Nix: When Your SDK Thinks It Owns the Filesystem
A postmortem on getting Flutter iOS builds working inside a Nix flake, and what the experience revealed about Flutter's relationship with the filesystem.
Lead the LLM, Don't Let It Lead You
The value of LLM-generated code is in the prompt that produces it, not the output.
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