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Most of this month has been about getting my nixos system set up and moving over from Arch to nixos. Other than that it’s been a lot of learning Rust for my own purposes, which I’m enjoying learning a lot too, but not much to write about it yet. den Using den ended up being a really interesting way to structure my configs, manage imports, and share configs between modules and easily keep nixos/darwin/home-manager in mostly the same file for each concern. ...

newly released kubelab (previously known last month as argocd-sample) https://github.com/voidlily/kubelab Kubelab is a minikube-based homelab cluster, setup with my preferred way of doing gitops. It has a few helm charts installed and one python app deployed to it. argocd ├── apps │ ├── argocd │ │ ├── base │ │ │ ├── kustomization.yaml │ │ │ └── namespace.yaml │ │ ├── clusters │ │ │ ├── prod │ │ │ │ └── kustomization.yaml │ │ │ └── staging │ │ │ └── kustomization.yaml │ │ └── values.yaml │ ├── argo-rollouts │ │ └── base │ │ └── kustomization.yaml │ ├── cert-manager │ │ └── values.yaml │ ├── kargo │ │ └── values.yaml │ └── metrics-server │ └── values.yaml ├── appsets │ ├── argocd.yaml │ ├── argo-rollouts.yaml │ ├── cert-manager.yaml │ ├── hello-nix-uv-py-kargo.yaml │ ├── hello-nix-uv-py.yaml │ ├── kargo.yaml │ ├── kube-state-metrics.yaml │ └── metrics-server.yaml └── root-app.yaml The way I like to do things is always using ApplicationSets, even if it only contains one cluster or app under it, and then manifests and helm value files go under the apps/ folder. This provides a level of consistency that I like. And then the root-app contains itself and all the appsets so the whole thing is self managed by gitops. ...

This is the first post in what I hope to be a regular series outlining things I’m working on that may be of interest newly released dotfiles https://github.com/voidlily/dotfiles Technically not a new release, but I don’t think I’ve ever broadly discussed how my dotfiles work and fit together. A long time ago this was handled by manually symlinking files in place and just “knowing” where files go, like ~/dotfiles/vimrc -> ~/.vimrc, or submodules like ~/dotfiles/emacs.d -> ~/.emacs.d (submodule for spacemacs). Over the past few years I started adopting nix and using home manager to manage the symlinks, and then expanded it to installing and configuring programs, and now my entire configuration is reproducible on a new machine such as a work laptop with just a few steps. ...