vielmetti / emv-home-nix

home-manager configuration files for nix

emv-home-nix

home-manager configuration files for nix

emv-home-nix's Issues

enable "mosh"

surely this should go in some kind of system-wide configuration but I will try
to wedge it into the dot files to start.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Mosh

install everything with a nix flake

nixify the bootstrapping process here too, so that
the first thing you install is a nix flake (here would
be "flake.nix") that in turn hauls in everything else.

https://www.bekk.christmas/post/2021/16/dotfiles-with-nix-and-home-manager
has what looks like a sane approach to everything.

and once it's a flake it can be installed at system
build time so that it's ready at first login.

improve git configuration / agenix setup

the current git configuration is read-only, effectively, since it uses
a secrets scheme that I don't understand.

make that better, so that I can bootstrap a new machine
to not only pull data from git but also to push it as needed.

looking at agenix from https://github.com/ryantm/agenix as
a plausible secrets bootstrapping tool, based on age.

improve zsh + powerlevel10k setup

the current zsh and powerlevel10k setup is kind of janky, in that it's
necessary to exec $(which zsh) and then source .p10k.zsh to get
everything started.

figure out how to auto-start everything to do with the shell theme.
that might mean switching to a different plugin manager, or
doing a zsh install system-wide.

improve vim configuration

make sure that vim gets installed with syntax coloring
for your favorite file formats, including of course nix.

improve zsh + atuin setup

atuin is a shell history manager.

the current setup is not bootstrapping it correctly, figure
out why and fix that.

add a system and network monitoring section

get all of the "top" tools, plus all the variants on "traceroute", in a section of their own.

top: htop glances atop
traceroute: traceroute mtr

automate "metal device create" + "tailscale up"

Not documented here / not documented yet are the bootstrapping
commands to get a server online through Equnix Metal, and the
subsequent bootstrap to get Tailscale running so that the server
is on my tailnet.

A fork in the road here, either continue with the Ubuntu + nixpkgs
route, or go all-in and bootstrap through NixOS. For the moment
stick to Ubuntu, just because I can go off-script easier there.

I'll probably have to pre-create a key in the Tailscale console,
then feed that key as an argument into something that
generates a cloud-init for Ubuntu, runs the commands,
sets up the naming etc.

As you are doing that part of things think about secrets bootstrapping
and also system teardown.