Using Zrythm for audio production

Sometimes, I like to record music and videos that will be left as pieces of memory to reminisce about. I am neither a professional music producer nor a content creator, but I have managed to learn just enough to do what I wanted. As I worked on another one before finishing this year, I wanted to try a new tool. As one could guess from the title, I gave Zrythm a shot. ...

25 December 2025 · 8 min · 1627 words · 이영욱

Building a project (#3) - Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack

This is a part of series Building a project, where I try to make something using OpenStack. Learning about OpenStack Preparing a server Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack With my server ready, I was excited to get Kubernetes running. Following a guide I came across online, I added a few lines of configuration and applied it right away. ...

1 December 2025 · 25 min · 5160 words · 이영욱

Building a project (#2) - Preparing a server

This is a part of series Building a project, where I try to make something using OpenStack. Learning about OpenStack Preparing a server Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack Introduction After a long, long hiatus, I decided give this project a push. Although I stopped after introducing myself to a very basic overview of OpenStack, I still heard about it from time to time. ...

5 November 2025 · 10 min · 2048 words · 이영욱

Hosting Ente with Terraform, Vault, and NixOS

Ente is a platform to host photos that uses end-to-end encryption to store its data. I have more than a decade of photos saved with Google Photos, but I wanted to keep them in a place that is designed to be private. The problem, however, was that the collection grew to a few terabytes over the years, and putting them on a privacy-respecting image platform was either very expensive or outright impossible. To work around the problem, I decided to self-host Ente. ...

28 September 2025 · 48 min · 10116 words · 이영욱

Switching from Arch Linux to NixOS

I use Arch btw Not any more. During my last post about deploying PeerTube, I considered using NixOS for the server. I eventually decided against it due to a steep learning curve, but Nix’s goal of declarative environment made me eager to try it out one day. Arch Linux has been the daily driver on my laptop for well over two years. I had no complaints with it, receiving timely updates while still being a generally stable system. However, even though reproducibility is not exactly what I need in such a device, the ability to roll back with ease as well as declare my setup in a Git repository was appealing to me. ...

16 May 2025 · 15 min · 3183 words · 이영욱