Neomutt TO Address NerdFont Gutter Indicator
I’ve been using mutt/neomutt since around 2008 or 2009 with some breaks in-between. Steve Losh’s The Homely Mutt re-invigorated my love for mutt in 2012 and I refer back to this blog post often. It super-charged my usage of mutt from casually getting-by to productively using it for my email.
Over time I have accumulated a variety of email aliases (as one does…I suppose) and recently I’ve gotten back in to using the masked-email feature of Fastmail for random sites that require email so that they can spam me (err I mean validate, yeah definitely validate). The accumulation of these email addresses plus the new influx of masked email had me wishing for a quick visual indicator in neomutt to know who an email was sent to. I use Monolisa as my primary font but have Jetbrains Mono Nerd Font as my fallback for characters not in the Monolisa set, which gave me an idea to use some of the fun icons in the Nerd Font set as indicators.
Using macOS as a Darwin Build Machine for Nix Caching
At work we are issued a very fast Apple MacBook Pro (mine is an M4 with 64GB RAM) and we take that fast machine and install Microsoft Defender on it, which takes that fast computer and makes it wade through a swamp. This post isn’t about the pain that I go through daily to try to develop directly on my Mac (that should be a separate series of posts) but today I want to talk about how I have greatly improved my nix-darwin switch speeds.
Freshrss With Tailscale Auth
FreshRSS has been my RSS feed aggregator of choice for a couple of years now. I still frequently long for the optimistic heady days when we all loved Google Reader. I used Feedbin for many years and highly recommend it if self-hosting your feed aggregator isn’t for you. Lovely service for sure.
Background
Ever since I set up FreshRSS I’ve been grumbling about how I want SSO. I use Authentik for most of my SSO needs, but these days even that feels overkill. You can use Authentik with FreshRSS but only if you use the FreshRSS Docker container (which has Apache inside of it to do the authentication). This feels extra-heavy for me when FreshRSS is “just” a PHP app.