Why the existing Python and Go gpsd exporters keep crashing, how a Rust rewrite fixes it, and wiring the whole thing up with Prometheus on NixOS — including the gpsd configuration that nobody tells you about.
Building hickory-dns from source with Nix, generating zone files from a host registry, wiring up DDNS with Kea DHCP, hardening with systemd, and monitoring the whole thing with Prometheus and Grafana.
Getting Ecowitt weather station data into Prometheus and Grafana with a Rust exporter and a NixOS module — with forwarding to Home Assistant and other receivers.
Setting up a self-hosted, vendor-neutral container registry on NixOS using the Zot module — users, access control, retention, nginx, and monitoring included.
ProtonVPN assigns ports dynamically via NAT-PMP and they change without warning. A small Rust daemon keeps qBittorrent's listening port in sync, recovers from failures, and exports Prometheus metrics — all wired up as a NixOS module.
Why the nixpkgs postgres_exporter might not be enough, and how to package pg_exporter from the Pigsty project as a NixOS module — with Nix-native YAML collector configuration, one-toggle Grafana dashboards, and Prometheus wiring.
Why I wrote a simple Prometheus exporter for FreeBSD bhyve VMs managed by vm-bhyve, and how to use it.