Declarative Homelab Notes

Replacing manual DNS management with a NixOS module that syncs records to Cloudflare on every rebuild, and the trade-off between stale records and deleted ones. (8 min read)

The world lost about 4.5% of its mangrove cover between 1996 and 2020, but the share under formal protection more than doubled — from 16% to 35%. (2 min read)

Replacing a Mikrotik router with a Protectli mini-PC running NixOS — covering PPPoE, VLAN segmentation, link aggregation, nftables, Kea DHCP, and Blocky DNS. (15 min read)

Here we discuss using Lua scripts to customise tables imported using osm2pgsql (11 min read)

This article explains how to batch import rasters into a Postgres database. It also covers the use of PostGIS functions to query these rasters and create new ones. These techniques are particularly useful for applications such as QGIS. (8 min read)

This guide will run through the process of installing Artix Linux with runit as the init system on an encrypted disk partition. (6 min read)