Update for the week ending on Friday, Dec 20, 2024

Refactoring English

Updated ports in my syncthing on fly.io tutorial so they don’t conflict with the standard ports

I recently built a new computer and installed NixOS on it after 20+ years of Windows. I’m learning how to do everything on NixOS now.

Switched to my NixOS system as my daily driver
Tried to migrate Thunderbird email archive
- I feel like every time I try to migrate my Thunderbird email archive, something goes wrong.
- Even though I migrated everything, Thunderbird seemed to insist on re-downloading everything
Learned how to back up email using offlineimap
- It works pretty well so far
- It uses maildir format, which I’d never heard of before, but it’s what I wanted. It makes each email its own semi-plaintext file
- I haven’t found a GUI to read maildir easily, but mutt works pretty well
Got CIFS working for access to my TrueNAS server
- I tried to set up NFS since it’s now Linux-to-Linux, but I found NFS’s setup so much more confusing than CIFS
Set up nightly backups again
- Still haven’t successfully gotten them to work because I think my OS disk is defective and keeps spontaneously going offline
Set up syncthing
Added tailscale
Added repos that load by default
Made a bunch of changes to my backup scripts so that they run under NixOS with systemd timers
- Previously, they were running with Windows Scheduled Tasks
- The pain here was Python because its packaging mechanisms are so brittle that it kept causing problems migrating the script to NixOS in an isolated environment
Migrated influxdb and Grafana dashboards
Figured out how to use the Windows/Super button on Gnome
Set up managed VS code settings
Added JetBrains Mono font
Copied %APPDATA% from my Windows machine to my NAS

ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.

Simplified hx-disabled-eltvalue
- I was waiting on a bugfix in htmx, but then I realized I could do it without the bugfix
- Now that I’m re-reading it, I’m realizing I made the new selectors too broad and I actually do need that fix

Created Pointer Brother, a simple JavaScript tool for adding arrows to screenshots
- I used to do this in Photoshop on Windows
- I tried creating an arrow in GIMP and discovered it’s surprisingly difficult
- Creating the app with an LLM was pretty easy, and it does exactly what I want for now
Started a return/replace for my Crucial T705, which spontaneously goes offline
- I initially suspected it was overheating, so I wrote a bash script to run SMART tests in a loop and write the results to my NAS, but even minutes before it goes offline, temp is 45 C (well below overheating) and all tests are reporting normal