Just a short notice that this blog will not be updated in the future. I have moved my web presence - including my blog - to a new place. This site here will be kept in its current state indefinitely, but will not receive any more updates.| asylum.madhouse-project.org
As far as I can remember I have gravitated towards strong copyleft licenses, the GPL family, in particular, and never been a fan of permissive software licenses. Proponents of permissive licenses cite that it allows wider adoption, in proprietary software too - that's a valid goal to have, but it isn't mine. The single thing I liked most about the GPL is that it is very much against that. Most of the software I write, I write for myself, and share it openly and freely, in case someone else wi...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
Over a year ago, I started looking for a replacement for my continuous integration solution, because the one I used transitioned into an open core model, and its future wasn't looking particularly bright. At that time, I concluded that there aren't any alternatives available that would fit the particular needs I had. I went as far as describing a few ideas, then iterating on those, and even prototyped a CI system behind the scenes. Today, I am "happy" to report that my hunt has concluded, and...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
About a month ago, I did something I haven't done in over two decades. Something I previously thought unthinkable. After about twenty four years with Debian, I switched distributions. This is the second time in my entire life that I changed my distribution: first in 1999 from SuSE to Debian, then now, in 2023, from Debian to NixOS. A month later, it still feels weird. Not NixOS, I'm pretty comfortable with it by now. The thought. I spent more than two decades with Debian. At some point, I con...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
I am no NixOS expert by any means, I only recently switched to it as my daily driver. I have rebuilt my workstation and home server on top of it, and am in the process of rebuilding my public facing server with it, too. Nevertheless, when I read Xe Iaso's latest blog post, and the ensuing discussion on lobste.rs, I had Thoughts.| asylum.madhouse-project.org