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Josh Buker

My personal blog, including various topics and tutorials.

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How to add a new passphrase to LUKS

If you have an existing LUKS partition, and you would like to add a new passphrase without needing to reformat anything or replace the existing passphrase, luckily it’s just a few commands. First, identify the LUKS partition using lsblk: lsblk Which should give you something like the following: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS nvme0n1 ...

ICE Shooting of Renee Nicole Good

Fact checking claims surrounding the shooting of Renee Nicole Good on January 7th, 2026.

Switching Jekyll Themes

For a long time I’ve been using the MrGreen Jekyll theme, which enticed me with its clean look and multi-lingual support. However, after being called a terrible programmer by the maintainer, I decided it was time to revisit what themes are out there and ended up finding quite a gem. While it doesn’t support multiple languages simultaneously, the Chirpy theme has many other features that I’ve b...

How to Install NixOS

So you've heard about NixOS, and you want to give it a try. Let's get you started!

How to use a GPG Smartcard for Git and SSH

A guide on using a GPG compatible SmartCard such as the NitroKey or YubiKey for Git and SSH. This guide assumes that you are using a YubiKey and NixOS, but should largely be reusable for other SmartCards and Linux Operating Systems. Due to current limitations, you cannot have multiple SmartCards that all work simultaneously using the same keys. You can however copy the backed up keys to a ...