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This post is relatively scatterbrained, and if you’re familiar with Nix, there’s not any explicitly new ground to tread here. However, I have enjoyed my experience with NixOS so much that I felt compelled to write this post, although there’s already a plethora of posts drilling the same points.

From time to time, I find software that immediately seems to click with me, and I start integrating it almost irreversibly into my workflow, to the point where it’s difficult to think outside of its scope. Emacs is one of these: when I began using it, I started integrating most of my software into Emacs, be it IRC or RSS.

My recent experience with NixOS, though not my first (more on that later), was like this. As of today, my two laptops and my server all run NixOS, and they all use the same configuration – just with different things enabled/disabled across different machines. From both the perspective of a system administrator and the perspective as someone with a meticulous set of dotfiles, this is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Do you need to resign an iOS app due to an expiring provisioning profile or new bundle identifier, but you don't have access to the project files (.xcodeproj or .xcworkspace)? Or maybe you do have access to the project files, but your environment's version of Xcode can't build the project within the GUI for whatever reason? In this article, I'll share with you a solution that resigns an app without having to open Xcode.

There is arguably no better way to protect devices on your local network from unwanted content than Pi-hole. Add a machine running Pi-hole to your network, and it will quietly scrub all incoming traffic from pesky stuff like ads and trackers in the background. As the name suggests, Pi-hole was initially designed to run on a Raspberry Pi. But if you already have a Linux server on your network, you can deploy a Pi-hole container on it instead. That's what I did when I replaced a QNAP NAS appliance with a ThinkPad T410 running Linux Mint. But instead of Docker, I chose to use Podman Deploying Pi-hole on Linux Mint (and by extension, on any Ubuntu-based Linux distribution) requires a few steps, but it's not beyond the wit of man.