Section Contents

• 📁 CTF Platforms
• 📁 Vulnerability Research
• 📄 NixOS: Why I Switched and Never Looked Back

  What NixOS actually is, how the declarative model differs from every other distro, and why reproducibility is the killer feature for a home server.

• 📄 Hardware Configuration and Boot in NixOS

  How NixOS handles hardware-configuration.nix, boot loader options, kernel modules, ZFS pool setup, and filesystem declarations.

• 📄 Reverse Proxy, TLS, and DDNS on NixOS

  Declaring nginx virtual hosts, wiring up ACME/Let's Encrypt, handling dynamic DNS, and managing firewall rules, all in Nix.

• 📄 Running Self-Hosted Services the NixOS Way

  How to enable and configure Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and other services declaratively, including OCI containers and custom systemd units.

• 📄 Secrets Management with agenix

  Why the Nix store is the wrong place for secrets, how agenix works, and a complete workflow from key generation to decryption at activation.

• 📄 My NixOS Deployment Workflow

  How I actually deploy changes to my home server: nixos-rebuild modes, remote builds, rollbacks, flake.lock hygiene, and a PowerShell helper script.