Nix with its ecosystem is amazing tooling and the library functions in nixpkgs provide great builders to package certain programs, scripts, and stuff. But in this jungle of options, it’s also sometimes not clear which Read more
Update: The original post is from November 2024. I updated the post in the meantime a couple of times to reflect my latest knowledge. During my work as virtualization engineer at Cyberus Technology, I work Read more
UPDATE: Turns out, I googled the wrong thing/keywords. There is a helpful answer on StackOverflow. It was surprisingly difficult to programmatically start a long-running command via SSH in background and disconnect the SSH session immediately. Read more