I have a personal project that I wanted to push to both tangled.sh (self-hosted) and GitLab. In case something\nhappened to my personal homelab and backups.<\/p>\n
You can do this but adding another remote i.e. 1<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n Make sure to add both repositories with this command<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Then when you go git push it will push to all repositories.<\/p>\n You can double check with:<\/p>\n https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/14290113\/git-pushing-code-to-two-remotes<\/a> ↩︎<\/a><\/p>"},{"title":"My Year in Review 2025","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2026-01-01-my-year-in-review-2025\/","pubDate":"Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2026-01-01-my-year-in-review-2025\/","description":" Another year has passed, and it’s time to reflect on what I accomplished, what I learned, and where I’m\nheading next. 2025 was a year of shipping projects, learning new technologies, and making some significant\nlife changes.<\/p>\n My core aims were:<\/p>\n I successfully completed the first goal, though the other two took a back seat due to changing priorities.\nWith regards to YouTube, I didn’t really find the motivation to make videos. I will likely have another\ncrack at it this year, aiming at creating content with simpler editing which takes less effort.<\/p>"},{"title":"How to Setup a New PC With Lanzaboote, TPM Decryption, sops-nix, Impermanence and nixos-anywhere","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-31-how-to-setup-a-new-pc-with-lanzaboote-tpm-decryption-sops-nix-impermanence-nixos-anywhere\/","pubDate":"Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-31-how-to-setup-a-new-pc-with-lanzaboote-tpm-decryption-sops-nix-impermanence-nixos-anywhere\/","description":" Make sure if you follow this guide you could lose your data. Make sure to back up whatever important data you have.\nOr do what I did and test this on a new device where it doesn’t matter if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n But don’t try to do this on a machine that has important data, or you need to use day to day. Though I was able to\nset up a new laptop in about 20 mins once I got everything working. It can be fiddly.<\/p>"},{"title":"TIL - How to Fix Tailscale Using Mullvad as Exit Nodes on NixOS","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-29-til-how-to-fix-tailscale-using-mullvad-as-exit-nodes-on-nixos\/","pubDate":"Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-29-til-how-to-fix-tailscale-using-mullvad-as-exit-nodes-on-nixos\/","description":" On NixOS when ever I enabled mullvad<\/a> as exit nodes via tailscale (the trayscale app<\/a>).\nMy internet would stop working, which was weird as this worked fine on my other devices i.e. Ubuntu or my phone.<\/p>\n Well turns out it seems to be the way NixOS works with the firewall, you can read all the details here 1<\/a><\/sup>. Where\nthe poster explains it really well.<\/p>\n My understanding is the following:<\/p>\n This changes RPF (reverse path filtering) from “strict” to “loose” mode:<\/p>"},{"title":"TIL - How to Fix App Lounge Updates Getting Stuck (MurenaOS\/eOS)","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-28-til-how-to-fix-app-lounge-updates-getting-stuck-murenaos-eos-\/","pubDate":"Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-28-til-how-to-fix-app-lounge-updates-getting-stuck-murenaos-eos-\/","description":" If you use a FairPhone, or a phone running eOS\/MurenaOS<\/a>, which is as degoogled version of\nAndroid (no affiliation to me besides I use their devices\/OS).<\/p>\n Sometimes the app store “App Lounge” gets stuck updating apps, my old solution was to delete the app and reinstall it\nbut that can be a pain. Then I discovered a slightly better solution.<\/p>\n You will need to log in again to the app, but the update process shouldn’t get stuck anymore hopefully.<\/p>"},{"title":"How to Fix PAM Issues With Home Manager on Non-NixOS Setups","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-12-how-to-fix-pam-issues-with-home-manager-on-non-nixos-setups\/","pubDate":"Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-12-12-how-to-fix-pam-issues-with-home-manager-on-non-nixos-setups\/","description":" [!WARNING]\nThe pam_shim is POC code, so be careful with using it on your own machine. Use it at your own risk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n At work I have to use Ubuntu but I want to share my nix config between all my devices i.e. desktop and work laptop.\nOn my home setup I have been using Niri with Noctalia shell (quickshell) on NixOS. Everything works fine I can use\nthe Noctalia shell lock screen and can authenticate fine.<\/p>"},{"title":"TIL - How to Enable Video Thumbnails for SMB Share on Nixos and Nautilus","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-11-06-til-how-to-enable-video-thumbnails-for-smb-share-on-nixos\/","pubDate":"Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-11-06-til-how-to-enable-video-thumbnails-for-smb-share-on-nixos\/","description":" So recently I have setup a mini NAS and I connect to it via an SMB share, but on nautilus I noticed that\nunlike my local files for the videos it would not create thumbnails when I was using nautilus (file manager for Gnome).<\/p>\n The fix ended up being pretty simple 1<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n Or since we are managing this via NixOS and want to do things declaratively we can do do the following in our Nix config 2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>"},{"title":"Yak Shaving: Neotest Edition","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-11-02-yak-shaving-neotest-edition\/","pubDate":"Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-11-02-yak-shaving-neotest-edition\/","description":" TL;DR:<\/strong> The fix is in this commit: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/hmajid2301\/nixicle\/-\/commit\/cfababc9e3a1dfdd1917d0b87cb17fcdd655bfdc<\/a> Fixing stuff is fun! \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n I use Neovim (btw!) and Nix (btw btw!!!). I mean, half the reason to use these tools is to tell other people you use them, right? \ud83d\ude09 Otherwise, why would I go through the pain I experienced today? “What pain?” you ask. Good question!<\/p>\n A few weeks ago, I noticed that running tests in Neovim was failing with a TIL - How to Change Emojis in nh<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently I have been trying to update the emojis when I run nh<\/a>. Particularly\nthe nom output.<\/p>\n The old output was like so:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To fix this update your nh derivation like so:<\/p>\n Note you will no longer be able to use the default nix cache to build this. So everytime nh updates you will need to\nmanually build it.<\/p>"},{"title":"Voxicle Build Log 16","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-07-07-voxicle-build-log-16\/","pubDate":"Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-07-07-voxicle-build-log-16\/","description":" This was more for my Gophercon talk, but I fixed the local LGTM stack setup so that we can send logs, metrics and traces\nand view it all in Grafana. Then correleate them correctly and move between them in the GUI.<\/p>\n Worked on the terraform code to then create the same stack in Grafana cloud to setup the LGTM stack. Including deploying\nan alloy agent on my VPS. So we can send all of our OTLP data their and have consumed by the Grafana cloud.<\/p>"},{"title":"How to Use Tailscale GitLab CI to Deploy to Our Nix Home lab","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-07-10-how-to-use-tailscale-gitlab-ci-to-deploy-to-our-nix-homelab\/","pubDate":"Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-07-10-how-to-use-tailscale-gitlab-ci-to-deploy-to-our-nix-homelab\/","description":" So I have a small home lab, where I have a few random things running, like a GitLab CI runner, a media server etc.\nAll my home lab servers (3 of them) are running NixOS and are defined within my Nix flake what services they run.<\/p>\n For example: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/hmajid2301\/nixicle\/-\/blob\/main\/systems\/x86_64-linux\/ms01\/default.nix?ref_type=heads<\/a><\/p>\n They are set up using nixos-anywhere like most of my other services<\/a>. Then using deploy-rs we can ssh onto our home lab servers and deploy nix config, i.e. updating packages.<\/p>"},{"title":"How to Fix Shell Completions When Using Nix Direnv and Fish Shell","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-07-02-how-to-fix-shell-completions-when-using-nix-direnv\/","pubDate":"Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-07-02-how-to-fix-shell-completions-when-using-nix-direnv\/","description":" If you read this post<\/a>,\nI finally managed to figure out how to get shell completions in fish shell when you install a tool using\na devshell in Nix, while using direnv. This plugin makes sure that the fish shell completions get resynced.<\/p>\n Currently, I am using a fork of the original plugin<\/a>,\nas the fish shell v4 broke it but eventually can use the original.<\/p>\n How it works:<\/p>\n Fish will search $fish_complete_path dynamically, so the idea is to implement a function which listens for changes to $XDG_DATA_DIRS, and attempts to keep that in sync with $fish_complete_path.<\/p>"},{"title":"Voxicle Build Log 15","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-06-23-voxicle-build-log-15\/","pubDate":"Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-06-23-voxicle-build-log-15\/","description":" Logged in users can mark feedback as private so it won’t be shown on the public dashboard.<\/p>\n I started using the Gitlab dependency proxy so that we can pull in image from Docker hub using Gitlab to avoid hiting\nrate limits. But also means we can use image cache which should makes jobs a quicker when pulling say For the moment, the GitLab proxy will not work if the project is in your personal namespace\ni.e. GitLab Issue: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/gitlab-org\/gitlab\/-\/issues\/323773<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/details>\n\n The GitLab dependency proxy, allows us to cache Docker images that we pull from Docker Hub. This allows us to\nreduce bandwidth and speed up builds, i.e. quicker to pull Postgres for our tests in CI.<\/p>"},{"title":"Voxicle Build Log 14","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-06-02-voxicle-build-log-14\/","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-06-02-voxicle-build-log-14\/","description":" We started of with this:<\/p>\n And finish with this<\/p>\n Users can now do the almost everything they can when logged in but when anonymous. We attach a I will stop making these weekly I think and produce them when there is actual stuff to share, as not make them\nstale and boring. Some times they may end up weekly, depending on how much progress I am making.<\/p>\n I have some middleware that will show an error modal when we return an error back to the client. I may change this to\nbe a toast for certain actions vs a full on modal but we can do that in the middleware.<\/p>"},{"title":"Part 8: Neovim as Part of Your Development Workflow","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-15-part-8-neovim-as-part-of-your-development-workflow\/","pubDate":"Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-15-part-8-neovim-as-part-of-your-development-workflow\/","description":" After another 5 months (again) I’m finally back blogging about my development setup, opps!<\/p>\n Neovim is a text editor, that you can run in your terminal. Much like Row Level Security for Feedback and Upvotes. With row level security we can add policies and use config variables.\nSuch that we set the organization ID and users can only get feedback that is part of their organization.\nThis means we can simplify our SQL queries with fewer joins and fewer where clauses. Making them easier to read.\nEssentially it lets us do a simple form of authorization inside the web app.<\/p>"},{"title":"How I Setup Tailwindcss LSP With Neovim & Nix (With DaisyUI)","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-06-how-i-setup-tailwindcss-lsp-with-neovim-nix-with-daisyui-\/","pubDate":"Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-06-how-i-setup-tailwindcss-lsp-with-neovim-nix-with-daisyui-\/","description":" Recently, I have been building an app (https:\/\/voxicle.app<\/a> #ShamelessPlug), with tailwind and DaisyUI. I have been\nhaving issues getting the tailwind LSP to work nicely in Neovim, and only recently managed to make it work.\nSo in this article, I will go over how I set up, assuming you are using Nix as a package manager.<\/p>\n In my project, it is a go web app, so all the dependencies in the project are managed as go modules by my Cricket is back this week, so I didn’t have as much time as I would over the weekend as I was out playing both weekends.\nBut I made progress every day even a little on Voxicle. I need to work out, what the minimum features I want before\nI start to market and share with others to try it and provide feedback.<\/p>\n Recently, I have started to build apps using the web stack:<\/p>\n frontend<\/p>\n backend<\/p>\n devex<\/p>\n I have now built two apps using this stack, one of them being Banter Bus Code: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/hmajid2301\/banterbus<\/a><\/p>\n I am currently building a more normal CRUD app, called Voxicle (https:\/\/voxicle.app<\/a>), a SaaS platform for collecting\nand acting on user feedback. The first time, I am trying to build something which I will charge others for (hence\nthe code also not being open-source yet). Some more context here: https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-03-03-go-feedback-my-new-side-project\/<\/a><\/p>"},{"title":"TIL - How to Set Dynamic URL With HTMX and AlpineJS","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-04-29-til-set-dynamic-url-with-htmx-and-alpinejs\/","pubDate":"Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-04-29-til-set-dynamic-url-with-htmx-and-alpinejs\/","description":" TLDR; Add this attribute to your x-bind:hx-delete In my app, I show the user 25 feedbacks per page, and they can delete them which opens a modal to confirm the action.\nIf the user presses the delete button in the modal I want to send a HTTP DELETE request to an endpoint like\n Recently I noticed when I searched using Telescope in Neovim, that I could see Where my keybinding looked like this:<\/p>\ngit remote set-url --add --push origin git@gitlab.com:hmajid2301\/go-routinely.git\n<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n
goroutinely on \ue0a0 fix\/ci [<\/span>$]<\/span> via \ud83d\udc39 v1.25.5 via \u2744 impure (<\/span>nix-shell-env)<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span>\u276f git remote show origin\n<\/span><\/span>Welcome to this knot!\n<\/span><\/span>* remote origin\n<\/span><\/span> Fetch URL: git@git.haseebmajid.dev:majiy00.tngl.sh\/go-routinely\n<\/span><\/span> Push URL: git@git.haseebmajid.dev:majiy00.tngl.sh\/go-routinely\n<\/span><\/span> Push URL: git@gitlab.com:hmajid2301\/go-routinely.git\n<\/span><\/span> HEAD branch: main\n<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>
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Nautilus > Preference > Show thumbnails.\n\nSet it to "On this computer only" for only seeing thumbnails on your system, .\n\nIf u need it to do same for a remote server, select "All files"\n<\/code><\/pre>Background<\/h2>\n
no test found<\/code> error. I’m using neotest<\/code> and neotest-golang<\/code> to run tests within Neovim.<\/p>"},{"title":"TIL - How to Change Emojis in nh","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-08-10-til-how-to-change-emojis-in-nh\/","pubDate":"Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-08-10-til-how-to-change-emojis-in-nh\/","description":"environment<\/span>.<\/span>systemPackages<\/span> =<\/span> with<\/span> pkgs<\/span>;<\/span> [<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span> (<\/span>pkgs<\/span>.<\/span>nh<\/span>.<\/span>override<\/span> {<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span> nix-output-monitor<\/span> =<\/span> pkgs<\/span>.<\/span>nix-output-monitor<\/span>.<\/span>overrideAttrs<\/span> (<\/span>old<\/span>:<\/span> {<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span> postPatch<\/span> =<\/span> old<\/span>.<\/span>postPatch<\/span> or<\/span> ""<\/span> +<\/span> ''\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> substituteInPlace lib\/NOM\/Print.hs \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'down = "\u2193"' 'down = "\\xf072e"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'up = "\u2191"' 'up = "\\xf0737"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'clock = "\u23f1"' 'clock = "\\xf520"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'running = "\u23f5"' 'running = "\\xf04b"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'done = "\u2714"' 'done = "\\xf00c"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'todo = "\u23f8"' 'todo = "\\xf04d"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'warning = "\u26a0"' 'warning = "\\xf071"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'average = "\u2205"' 'average = "\\xf1da"' \\\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> --replace 'bigsum = "\u2211"' 'bigsum = "\\xf04a0"'\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> ''<\/span>;<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span> });<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span> })<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span>];<\/span>\n<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\u23ee\ufe0f Previous Build Log Objectives<\/h2>\n
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Mark feedback as private\/public<\/h3>\n
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postgres<\/code>.<\/p>"},{"title":"How to Use the GitLab Proxy in CI","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-06-18-how-to-use-the-gitlab-proxy-in-ci\/","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-06-18-how-to-use-the-gitlab-proxy-in-ci\/","description":"gitlab.com\/hmajid2301<\/code>. So to make it work with my project Voxicle I had to move to its own group.<\/p>\nBackground<\/h2>\n
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deviceID<\/code> cookie to them\nto be able to spot if its the same user. This only works for the same device and until they clear their cookies but\nshould be good enough for most of the users I think for now.<\/p>"},{"title":"Voxicle Build Log 13","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-19-voxicle-build-log-week-13\/","pubDate":"Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-19-voxicle-build-log-week-13\/","description":"\u23ee\ufe0f Previous Build Log Objectives<\/h2>\n
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What is Neovim?<\/h2>\n
vim<\/code> and vi<\/code> or nano<\/code>. So we would run\nthis inside our terminal emulator and Zellij. It differs from vim because you can configure it using lua vs vimscript\n. Some of the other unique features it had, you can now do in vim (I believe). Such as tree sitter support and LSPs.<\/p>"},{"title":"Voxicle Build Log Week 12","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-12-voxicle-build-log-week-12\/","pubDate":"Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-12-voxicle-build-log-week-12\/","description":"\u23ee\ufe0f Last Weeks Objectives<\/h2>\n
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Why Nix?<\/h2>\n
go.mod<\/code> file.\nThen everything else the developer needs is set up as a dev shell. Things like the standalone tailwind CLI,\nI am using a nix flake which already has DaisyUI built in so it can also generate those types i.e. btn<\/code> in the final\nstyles.css (or whatever you called it). The flake is here: https:\/\/github.com\/aabccd021\/tailwindcss-daisyui-nix<\/a><\/p>"},{"title":"Voxicle Week 11","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-05-voxicle-week-11\/","pubDate":"Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-05-05-voxicle-week-11\/","description":"Last Week<\/h2>\n
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banterbus.games<\/code> a browser-based party game (currently broken).\nUsing web sockets, so it isn’t the most normal web application. As there are a few quirks of web sockets.<\/p>\nx-effect="currentItemId;htmx.process($el)"<\/code> as an example (adjust for your example).<\/p>\nBackground<\/h2>\n
\/feedback\/{id}<\/code>, but the ID is dynamic, as we are using one modal for all the feedbacks vs having one modal\nper one feedback.<\/p>"},{"title":"TIL - Fix Telescope Ignoring Env Files","link":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-04-28-til-fix-telescope-ignoring-env-files\/","pubDate":"Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/haseebmajid.dev\/posts\/2025-04-28-til-fix-telescope-ignoring-env-files\/","description":"env.local.template<\/code> but not\n.env.local<\/code>.<\/p>\nvim.keymap<\/span>.<\/span>set<\/span>(<\/span>"n"<\/span>,<\/span> "<leader>ff"<\/span>,<\/span>