Background I have some backup logs that have failures I wanted to search and recently came across toolong but it is not currently in nixpkgs. I figured this is a good chance to try out poetry2nix I keep reading about and went through the process of packaging this so I could use it easily with nix.

Recently I worked on a project where a large refactor had taken place but I wanted to ensure that there was no changes to the built output of the docker container. So while the diff in Github was quite large with many files moved around the output should remain almost identical aside from a few extra files removed.

Ever want to convert a Google Slides presentation to images without having to save each one manually?

1. Export from Google Slides to PDF. File > Download > PDF This will let us download all the images at once.
2. Using the imagemagickBig nix package or installing with instructions from here you can then run the following command in the CLI:

convert -density 300 -quality 100 my-download.{pdf,png}

This will then convert the PDF to a series of images at 300 DPI.

fish shell script for quick access: pdf-to-png ./my-pdf-file.pdf

Blender plugin to quickly set the render frame range start and end property from the currently selected sequence clip.

• Quick set frame start and end button Plugin Download.

Have you seen this error?

building the system configuration...
error: flake 'git+file:///Users/matt/nixfiles' does not provide attribute 'packages.aarch64-darwin.darwinConfigurations.Bebop.system', 'legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.darwinConfigurations.Bebop.system' or 'darwinConfigurations.Bebop.system'

I ran into this and it took me about a month before I realized that I had changed my hostname and that is why my nix flake was no longer building.

Background: I had some projects from school that I wanted to revisit and compile again, specifically a game called Worm. This was an assignment that needed to be linked against ncurses which isn’t installed out of the box on most machines. I’ve been dual booting NixOS for some time now on my gaming PC and I thought it was time to start using Nix Flakes with my own projects.

How I cross compiled Go to run on the Winkhub and installed a custom web app to control the lights locally.

TL;DR; Be sure to compile with Go 1.5 with the following settings:
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 go build .

This post picks up where part 1 left off. Here is some of the troubleshooting I had to go through since following the instructions did not go smoothly for me.

How I liberated my Winkhub from the Cloud

TL;DR; I rooted my Winkhub over the UART connection and then wrote a small Go web service to allow me to turn my lights on and off from my phone.

This post covers how to setup CoreOS with iptables on DigitalOcean. It also covers how to start a Docker container using systemd to keep the container running after crashes and reboots.

I recently connected my MacBookPro to my audio receiver over HDMI to play a movie with VLC and try out the Steam in home streaming. I noticed that the audio was not coming out of all my speakers.