ChatGPT assisted Changelog - 29/52

Published July 18, 2025

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Tags: gpt, changelog, weekly summary

NixOS Daily Driver and Dotfiles

• Continued refining NixOS setup and daily driver blog series
• Modularized dotfiles using Dotter with template support
• Adopted approach of letting NixOS generate base config, layering custom on top
• Explored idea of a "LazyNix" dev toolkit using importable modules
• Troubleshot and resolved GRUB and UEFI encryption setup issues

Framework Laptop and QMK Customization

• New laptop! Framework 16
• Investigated Framework RGB keyboard and LED matrix customization
• Confirmed QMK support and existence of Rust libraries (most tooling is in C)
• Searched for examples and guides to interact with Framework's LED module

Task Management and Productivity Tools

• Looked into Rust-based TUI task managers like Taskwarrior
• Reviewed Taskwarrior features like due dates, tags, and urgency scoring
• Practiced adding and updating tasks with CLI syntax

Git and Hosting

• Managing personal site using two remotes, pushing to both for now
• Long-term plan is to self-host once everything is working reliably

NixCon 2025 Planning

• Would like to attend NixCon in Rapperswil-Jona, Sept 5 to 7

Avatars and Stickers

• Tweaked Tux-human avatar
• Looked for places to buy open source stickers that support the projects

Neovim, Fonts, and Waybar

• Set up Nixvim to remove trailing whitespace on save
• Troubleshot font issue in WezTerm by refreshing font cache and restarting
• Created toggleable Waybar for system stats using manual launch approach

Language Learning

• 210 days of Swedish in a row
• Trying to pick some German back up for trip to Prague