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Spent way too much time configuring my VPS which I am currently running tailscale and my openclaw agent I named pikaq on. This was my first time setting up a VPS, tailscale, openclaw, etc and I got to learn a lot. I am writing this after the Fallout hackathon in China, and I have to say that all of my configuration worked really well. The tailscale exit node on my VPS for super useful. The VPS is currently running on an AWS EC2 instance, and I am working on lowering the instance’s costs by using the cost optimizer to find the best instance type. The VPS is also currently running NixOS, and using some modules from dotfiles. I also spent a lot of time configuring openclaw and playing with it. I am currently using it through a discord server where discord threads help me to keep the LLM’s context just right for every task, easily continue tasks, switch between them, and run many in parallel. A workflow that I setup with openclaw was to get it to send me an ‘Essential Notification’ on my Nothing phone multiple times in a day to take my medicines until I told it I had taken them. I tried using openclaw through Whatsapp also, but that didn’t work too well since I only have one phone number and can’t assign a dedicated phone number for pikaq to use.

Here’s what I worked on:

• I started moving all my dotfiles into a dedicated git-backed .dotfiles directory.
• I refactored my NixOS configuration into the dendritic Nix pattern, using flake-parts and wrapper-modules.
• I made a wrapper module for Neovim that makes it so that Neovim automatically inherits the configuration in .dotfiles/nvim/ whenever I run nvim.

I have an existing Hyprland + Waybar configuration that I have shown below, I am going to change that to Niri + Noctalia Shell soon.