This site is mostly comprised of notes and configuration files.

Dotfiles

Dotfiles use to be a larger part of my computer life. With the advent of Nix, I have moved into declarative config files that have merged in my various dotfile settings. Despite this, I am still keeping these old files as they still work and are a good reference. Dotfiles include settings files including cron and hosts files.

Dotfiles focused on include:

What is this site all about?

Mostly tldrs for cli tools. Using Nix, Nixos, MacOS, containers, using rasberry pi, etc. Reluctantly a few windows things.

The Inspiration

I have been learning and implementing new things as I discover them. I noticed that sometimes I needed to do things I did months ago again. I had a hard time remember all that was involved in their implementations. Thought a webisde would be good to use as a reference for myself and a guide to others who share my interests. That being said, there is some pages that have fallen into obsoletion. Mostly because new technologies or just better implemnentations have arisen.

Keeping the Founding Philosophy Alive

The founders of the internet built it in the spirit that information would be shared. I like to keep to that free flow of ideas. Anything here can be taken and used as you wish. (MIT License)

Want something added? Notice a mistake?

If you would like to share some things you have learned along the way or answers that were hard to find, so hard that you do not want to lose that information since the search was so hard please leave an email at webmaster@d3c3p7.com even if it is a simple typo found on this website.

Why Bother?

Quick setup files can be made after a clean install for macOS without having to do an entire backup. Keep your settings and know all the programs has been getting much easier to maintain. Especially with much of it being done in the cloud. And nearly all OS have access to a program package manager of some kind. Windows has Chocolatey. Mac has homebrew. Linux has them according to the distro being used. So keeping a file of the programs used can really speed up installations on a clean system. Getting to know these systems can pay dividends over the years.

Hardware

While there is home networking, a NAS can be a very good thing. Whether you want to stream your media or want to run a git repository server, or a pie server or build your own game console or make your own security system etc. So I am also including things regarding the use of Raspberry Pi's. I have tried using Pi 4 with 4 gigs of ram with arm linux systems. It is functional, however I do not recommned it. It seems they are still best used for peripherals and servers.

Excuses, Excuses

As previously stated. This site is a work in progress. I do not have all the time in the world to get around to working on things pertaining this website. As you can see by now there are so many things to look into beyond hundreds of lifetimes. We do what we can tho don't we? ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

~Cheers