Originally published at Marius Toolbox Now I know most people thing that a blog should be easy, you write something, you press publish and then it shows up online and I like that too - that’s why I am writing this on leaflet.pub where it works exactly like this. But I also have my other page at mariuskimmina.com which is running on NixOS because…. reasons! And I want my posts that I write here on leaflet also to show up on my blog which is why I created leaflet-hugo-sync, a tool that fetches all your leaflet posts and converts them to markdown. ...

Originally published at Marius Toolbox A few days ago I announced on BlueSky that I created a small tool to convert my leaflet posts (like the one you are reading right now) to markdown, so that they can also show up on my hugo based blog. View post on Bluesky I promised to follow up with an article about how I use it and that’s what you are reading now. ...

Originally published at Marius Toolbox Now, this might just be me, but I was trying to love nix & nixos for a while already but whenever I tired to use for my personal projects or as a operating system for my personal computer but then I always felt like it got in the way at times. On a personal computer I might spontaneously have to install proprietary software, like zoom, to get my work done and NixOS makes that a pain. I always went back to arch after a while but the thought of it’s declarative beauty was still lingering in my mind. ...

Originally published at Marius Toolbox Welcome dear Reader, I am Marius and I’ve been a bit obsessed with developer tooling and workflows for a while now. There is a certain feeling that you get from things that work really well and exactly the way you want them to. I’ve been working as a Software Engineer & DevOps Engineer (I know I hate that title too) for ~7 years now. I’ve figured out pretty early on in my career that what interests me the most are all the things around the code, such as production deployments, observability, infrastructure, scaling, databases and development workflows. Especially since these things became more & more codified through Infrastructure as Code and the like. ...