Tom Carrio

It all started with a wedding. You hire a videographer, you wait patiently for several weeks, and finally your video is available. It's hosted on…

tl;dr Do not use StatsD metrics with Datadog for serverless applications. Instead, utilize the distribution metric type available in DogStatsD. You will save yourself many…

DVD Backup I recently went through the process up backing up a series of DVDs from my partners childhood. Since this process entailed multiple systems…

Nvidia on NixOS NixOS is a really awesome Linux distribution. The declarative, functional approach of defining a configuration that applies consistently to your system is…

direnv magic A very popular project for managing environment variables in projects today is dotenv. There are packages for various languages, like NodeJS and PHP.

Prologue: What is NixOS? I will assume that you’re here to learn more about managing secrets on a NixOS system. If you want to learn…