Tony Cheneau @tcheneau@linuxrocks.online

Sexy looking hardware (raspberry pi zero + ultrawide screen + Vortex keyboard): https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/lbu4di/my_shiny_new_lisperati1000_lisp_programming/

New blog post on how to integrate a comment system based on Mastodon in a Hugo static blog (this is mostly the "detailed" steps that I followed to add @carl 's comment system on my blog: kudos to him!): https://amnesiak.org/post/2021/01/30/hugo-blog-with-mastodon-comments-extended/

Here is the derivation to anyone interested: https://github.com/tcheneau/mynixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/zed-free
Strace, ltrace and LD_DEBUG environment variable were my friends!

So, I wanted to open a Zed encrypt (secure) archive, but Zed encrypt was not packaged in Nixpkgs (and thus available on NixOS). I could have used a virtual machine to install the provided Debian package, but it would have been over in 30 minutes. Instead, I decided to write a derivation: library path overwrite, library preload, C code for overloading syscalls and change hardcoded path, wrapper scripts: in short, it just works! It took about ~9 hours of work. Totally worth it. #shavingtheyak

Sadly, it was not packaged on NixOS, so the next natural step was to write a derivation for it (NixOS name for a package). After a while, I found that I wasn't doing it in the right way but I still wanted to do it my way (added an extra couple hours). Finally, I got a working derivation and could finally start the docker-compose YAML file with podman-compose: I now have AWX running and don't know what to do next! So, quick question: am I the only one to always go for shortcuts like that? (2/2)

So it all started because I watched a video from Jeff Geerling about Ansible/AWX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKmY4jEiy_A). It made me want to test AWX. First step: I started investigating the docker-compose setup he talked about in his video. Then I remembered that I wanted to use podman instead of docker (because it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement!). So I looked for a tool for that and stumbled upon podman-compose (https://github.com/containers/podman-compose). (1/2)