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Enabling Distributed Builds on NixOS
NixOS, known for its declarative and functional approach to package management, provides a quite easy way to enable distributed builds. Distributed builds involve distributing the compilation workload across multiple machines, often connected over a network. NixOS achieves this by utilizing the Nix package manager’s built-in support for distributed builds.
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Degree Days with Occupancy adjustments in Home Assistant
Degree Days (or Graaddag in Dutch) allows you to benchmark energy consumption in relation to temperature.While it definitely is a useful benchmark it falls short into taking account if people are home or not. Based on the Degree Day calculation, and the # of hours anyone is at home, I will calculate a new metric:
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Home Assistant: Map Card, a new leaflet based map with WMS and other advanced features
Introducing ha-map-card a new lovelace card, serving as an enhancement to the native Home Assistant map-card, bringing a host of advanced features to the forefront. Built on the foundation of leaflet. The main features are: Custom Tile Layers and WMS Layers Support. -
Tags in Jekyll: related posts
Related posts are a great way to increase the engagement and retention of your blog readers. They help you showcase your other relevant and valuable content that might otherwise be overlooked or forgotten. They also improve the navigation and user experience of your blog, as they provide easy and intuitive links to explore more topics of interest. Moreover, related posts can boost your SEO and traffic, as they create more internal links and keywords for your site, and reduce the bounce rate and increase the dwell time of your visitors. In this post, I will show you how to add related posts to your Jekyll blog based on the tag functionality.
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Tags in Jekyll: a Word Cloud
On my Jekyll based blog I want to add Word Cloud on the tags page. A word cloud, with the size of the words based on the number of times the tag was used in a post. I used a similar approach in my CV. A word cloud can add value to your tags page by making it more attractive, interactive, and informative.