FIXING CLOUDFLARE WARP ON FEDORA 44 WITH NIX HOME-MANAGER
End of April, the Fedora team released F44. After a few weeks of wait-and-see, I upgraded at the end of May. I have run Fedora on my main Linux workstations for 10+ releases now, and recent upgrades have been remarkably smooth - nothing unforeseen breaking.
SETTING UP NIX ON FEDORA 44
A practical, step-by-step guide to installing and configuring Nix on Fedora 44 with SELinux, flakes, and direnv for a sandboxed, reproducible development environment.
I FINALLY ADOPTED NIX ON FEDORA 44 (WITHOUT COMPROMISING SELINUX)
Why I finally adopted Nix on Fedora 44 to bridge the gap in my dev workflow—balancing isolation, reproducibility, and cross-platform consistency without sacrificing SELinux.
FIXING PANGOLIN NEWT FAILING TO START UNDER SYSTEMD ON ENTERPRISE LINUX (SELINUX)
Pangolin’s newt client silently fails under systemd on SELinux-enforcing Enterprise Linux due to a wrong file context. Here’s the one-command fix.
EXPANDING A VDI DISK SIZE ON XEN
How to safely identify and expand the right VDI on XCP-ng or XenServer using xe commands, avoiding DR backup confusion, and letting CloudInit resize the filesystem on next boot.
MAKE FEDORA BULLETPROOF: BTRFS SNAPSHOTS, TIMESHIFT AND GRUB FOR EASY SYSTEM ROLLBACK
I recently saw a friend’s LinkedIn post that stuck with me: their PopOS system was borked after a failed update, and they’re now reinstalling Fedora from scratch. It’s a familiar tale in Linux circles, but not inevitable.
MIGRATING FIREFOX FROM NATIVE TO FLATPAK ON FEDORA
Every new Fedora install comes with Firefox pre-installed as an RPM package. For me, switching it to Flatpak is always the first step—because Flatpak leverages Bubblewrap (bwrap) to sandbox Firefox using Linux namespaces, seccomp filters, and filesystem isolation. This means Firefox runs with restricted syscalls, its own PID and network namespace, and no access to your home directory by default—a massive reduction in attack surface.
BYPASSING COPY-PASTE RESTRICTIONS ON JAPANESE RENTAL CAR WEBSITES
How to circumvent annoying client-side copy-paste blocks on form fields using Chrome Developer Tools and direct DOM manipulation
CONFIGURING THE TERRAFORM MCP SERVER FOR KILO CODE
A quick guide to integrating HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server with Kilo Code
FIXING BLURRY ELECTRON APPIMAGES ON FEDORA WITH HIDPI DISPLAYS
Why some Electron AppImages like Obsidian or Standard Notes look blurry on Fedora with 4K screens, and how to make them crisp with a simple launch flag