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Monthlogs - A public list of blog posts, announcements, software and libraries that catch my attention each month.

Monthlog 03: January 2020

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Happy New Year! This is the 03 installment in my 'Monthlog' - a public list of blog posts, announcements, software, libraries, videos and podcasts that catch my attention each month. I hope that regular readers will skim through the listings and find one,…

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Monthlog 02: December 2019

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This is the 02 installment in my 'Monthlog' - a public list of blog posts, announcements, software, libraries, videos and podcasts that catch my attention each month. I hope that regular readers will skim through the listings and find one, or multiple, th…

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Monthlog 01: November 2019

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This is the 01 installment in my 'Monthlog' - a public list of blog posts, announcements, software, libraries, videos and podcasts that catch my attention each month. I hope that regular readers will skim through the listings and find one, or multiple, th…

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Backups with Restic

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Restic is a powerful CLI based backup tool written in Go that I use regularly across my Darwin laptop and NixOS desktop. The important features of restic are. A variety of storage providers available for your backup 'repositories', Local, AWS S3 conforma…

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Your home in Nix (dotfile management)

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Updated 2021/02/02: I have now moved to a new system I'm calling Elemental. Expect an explanation post soon. You can find the Elemental repo at gh:hugoreeves/elemental. This post now serves as an account of how I previously managed my dotfiles with Nix. A…

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