NixOS on the Desktop
NixOS on the server is a thing of beauty (check out my last blog post about Hosting Websites on NixOS), but after my Arch installation crapped out, I decided to take it further and also use it on my laptop as a daily driver.
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Use DDEV on Nix and NixOS
I use NixOS BTW
I use NixOS BTW.
Since switching to it on all of my servers, my quality of life has somewhat improved - check out my last blog post about Hosting Websites on NixOS.
Hosting Websites on NixOS - A Comprehensive Drupal 9 & 10 Configuration Example
Why Use NixOS as a Web Server
If you're keeping up with the cutting edge of Linux, you might have noticed NixOS growing increasingly popular for server deployments. The reason is its declarative approach to package and configuration management. You specify 'what' your system should look like, and NixOS handles the 'how'. This approach ensures reproducibility and upgradeability, reducing configuration drift.
SWAG stops working at night and needs to be restarted daily
The SWAG docker container from linuxserver.io is a great plug-and-play solution for serving websites and self-hosted docker based applications.
Index Drupal 9 pages with IndexNow using Simple XML sitemap
Bing 410 Gone
Microsoft recently killed their search engine's public API responsible for accepting sitemap ping requests (those where you let search engines know your XML sitemap's content has changed). They did so completely unannounced leading to logs filling up and users unsurprisingly assuming their sitemap submitting code was somehow at fault. It wasn't.