Home sweet systemd-homed

What if there was a way to manage users with a self-contained, encrypted image that can only be accessed by the user? Enter systemd-home ...

February 13, 2024 · 5 min · Liv Dywan

Implementing a containerized Python action

One thing I wish was embraced more, and not just by users but also platforms such as GitLab is re-usable actions, or workflows if you will. As they help spend less time away from your primary project. Also, containers. ...

November 9, 2023 · 8 min · Liv Dywan

Modal VI-style editing with Helix

If you work with terminals a lot you probably also edit text in it. helix has become my default after years of vim, vi and neovim. Why? Because my config file got too big. ...

March 21, 2023 · 5 min · Liv Dywan

Multiplexing your terminal with Zellij

Terminals are crucial to my development workflow, locally and remotely. zellij has replaced tmux for my tiling and session management needs. ...

February 8, 2023 · 10 min · Liv Dywan

Developing in Distrobox containers

As an avid container user and occasional distro hopper Distrobox has my interest peaked. ...

February 1, 2023 · 6 min · Liv Dywan

Reading blog posts without saying a word

It’s nice sometimes being able to listen instead of reading, isn’t? If only there was a way to automagically be able to do that for all blog posts 🤔️ ...

November 26, 2022 · 3 min · Liv Dywan

Publishing re-usable actions

GitHub Actions provide one of the easiest ways to add CI to a git repository with minimal effort. Drop a YAML file in the right place and you’re good to go. How do you create one, though? It’s easier than you might think! ...

September 2, 2022 · 5 min · Liv Dywan

Rolling back to the last good version

Do you love to install the latest and greatest? Try out new and interesting things? Except it might break for some reason. If only you had a time machine… ...

August 30, 2022 · 3 min · Liv Dywan

Re-inventing the wheel

openQA test distributions can become quite big. Usually test modules and helper functions live side-by-side. What if you could easily split things up into multiple repositories? ...

August 4, 2022 · 3 min · Liv Dywan

The bare minimum to keep dot files in git

What do you do to backup files in your home? How do you share them and keep track changes? Version control to the rescue! ...

April 27, 2022 · 2 min · Liv Dywan