Another suggestion to help on NixOs. There is quite some demand for what NixOs delivers so any work done should benefit from useful feedback.

same, a simple habit that is secure, I use it always with maximum privacy. One day you will be in a rush, under stress, affected by age, and use your old habits with a valuable asset…

These 2 are worth a careful look

• ledger and its derivatives
• quickfile

I am from the UK and been doing this for over 10 years, with a CSV general ledger.

I find the double entry accounting equation simple, but need meticulous book keeping and to fully understand the scheme of accounts to minimise the time spent preparing for tax, vat and PAYE along with annual financial statements to companies house.

To work on my own I follow the ‘plain text accounting’ principle, ledger seems good, but simpler for me to use SQL on a CSV file and a Rust program to handle MTD for VAT.

I’ve studied many accounting packages, all seem over complex and obscure the simplicity of the task.

To work with an accountant I would choose quickfile. It is remarkable, and one very smart person I expect to choose the best application uses it so I feel that it has credibility.

great finds, is this list curated anywhere?

Thank you for pointing out Davx blindly follows NET_CAPABILITY… which calls home. I avoid data mining apps but don’t have a firewall to protect from these cases, may I ask what you recommend?

a text file? todo.txt format works for me. with a language sensitive editor I get colours and can sort.

https://codeberg.org/meissa/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo-federated-star/docs/unsure-where-to-put/blog.md#2024-02-considerations-on-mapping-and-architectural-decisions

Here’s mine fwiw - no SSO or LDAP but might add something to what you find. My journey is to move from a NixOS user of 2 years and 1 year ‘all in’. I run my own mail server with NixOS.

nixos-mailserver works well for me. The package set runs faultlessly on the smallest OVH vps. NixOS gives me the ability to redeploy anywhere painlessly and the backup need is limited to a dovecot sync. Dovecot sync is neat: with a 2nd identical vps (match configuration.nix) and non functional but services running duplicates all the live mail data with one command.

I am going all in on Rust too. There is a rust based mail server being developed that I might track as a migration in years to come.

Reading material

Learn { NixOS, Nix }

• https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/nixos-with-flakes/modularize-the-configuration “The Nix module system provides a parameter, imports, which accepts a list of .nix files and merges all the configuration defined in these files into the current Nix module.”
• https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/blob/next/nix/README.md
• https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2024/01/14/high-speed-usb4-mesh-network/ Nix package system “beautifully designed but hard to understand at first glance.”
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18878117/using-vagrant-to-run-virtual-machines-with-desktop-environment
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/set-up-vagrant-with-libvirt-qemu-kvm-on-nixos/14653
• https://aldoborrero.com/posts/2023/01/15/setting-up-my-machines-nix-style/
• https://github.com/tweag/rust-wasm-nix
• https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev
• https://terinstock.com/post/2021/01/Setting-up-a-git-server-on-NixOS/
• https://github.com/nrbray/nixos-configuration
• https://ash64.eu/blog/2022/building-custom-nixos-isos/
• https://github.com/nix-community/disko
• https://github.com/ghostbuster91/blogposts/blob/a2374f0039f8cdf4faddeaaa0347661ffc2ec7cf/router2023-part2/main.md
• https://cola-gang.industries/nixos-for-the-confused-part-2
• https://publish.reddit.com/embed?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/12kxmii/comment/jg5kq9n?snippet=2_8_105
• https://github.com/Mic92/dotfiles
• https://www.haskellforall.com/2022/08/stop-calling-everything-nix.html
• https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=b9o52fobqjak8oq8lfkhg3t0qg@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Amsterdam
• https://publish.reddit.com/embed?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/16zs4sn/comment/k3ilo44?snippet=0_12_128
• https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/08/22/industrial-strength-deployments/
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-do-i-split-common-system-configuration-into-seperate-files/34316/4
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cant-get-gnupg-to-work-no-pinentry/15373/31?u=nrbray
• https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/52e6f2600b1f01dbd223652849caa32d9a4ef42e/mixins/gpg-agent.nix
• https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/README.md
• https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Cookbook#Creating_shell_scripts
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-deploy-rs-with-existing-configuration/31665/3

Flake specific

are simply a special entry point for Nix code with a built in pinning system

• https://colmena.cli.rs/unstable/tutorial/flakes.html
• https://github.com/erictossell/nixflakes/blob/main/flake.nix
• https://github.com/simonkampe/nixos/blob/main/flake.nix
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/proper-way-to-build-a-remote-system-with-flakes/17661
• https://fasterthanli.me/series/building-a-rust-service-with-nix
• https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays#In_a_Nix_flake
• https://thiscute.world/en/posts/nixos-and-flake-basics/
• https://drakerossman.com/blog/how-to-convert-default-nixos-to-nixos-with-flakes
• https://flake.parts/best-practices-for-module-writing
• https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-09-22-rust-nix/
• https://flake.parts/
• https://github.com/nix-community/NUR
• https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/nixos-packaging.lantian/
• https://tonyfinn.com/blog/nix-from-first-principles-flake-edition/nix-6-nixpkgs-not-reinventing-the-wheel/