Ross A. Baker

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• Home Manager

  Defines a base home-manager module.

• Satay peanut stir fry

  A spicy, colorful dish of rice noodles, stir fried with vegetables and chicken in a spicy peanut sauce, inspired by Indonesian peanut sautée.

• Recipes

• Self-hosting a Matrix home server with Synapse

  Walks through how to set up a Matrix home server on NixOS. Uses Synapse, PostgreSQL, and a reverse Caddy proxy. Also covers the .well-known URI on the apex domain, and CORS headers for Netlify.

• Decentralized avatars with Caddy and Libravatar

  Sets up Libravatar with a Nix derivation to generate the file system root and a Caddy configuration to serve it.

• #code2024

  A review of the languages I used in 2024, and a lookahead to what is likely to be added in 2025.

• For 2025, I’m seeking an astrology where I can be a Mountain Dew bearer instead of a water bearer. Aquarius, my ass.

• Creating and Styling Callouts in Hugo

  Implements callout blocks with a Hugo shortcode. Discusses issues of semantic markup, styling, and ox-hugo integration.

• December Adventure, 2024: Day 28

  Another busy day, but some progress. It now writes to an out/ directory with three files:

• December Adventure, 2024: Day 27

  A day of failure. I tried to add checks to the Nix flake to set up CI, and I’m being told there’s no ELF interpreter when I run uv run ruff check. It runs fine from the dev shell. So I ran the formatter manually, deleted the old hello.py, and called it a day. And that’s okay.

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