NixOS Declarative Fix for 403 Errors & Jekyll Theme Streamlining

This entry meticulously documents the crucial steps taken to harden our self-hosting environment and refine the user interface ahead of public deployment. It highlights the decisive move from temporary procedural fixes to robust declarative configurations within NixOS to eliminate a persistent 403 error. Furthermore, it details the strategic ‘theme lobotomy’ performed on Jekyll’s Minima theme, stripping away redundant navigation elements to empower our custom ‘Rule of 7’ hub-page system. This work is a testament to the pursuit of durability, stability, and content-centric design in the Age of AI.

By Mike Levin

Thursday, December 25, 2025

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Setting the Stage: Context for the Curious Book Reader

In the ongoing journey to refine the “Forever Machine”—a self-hosting, AI-empowered digital presence—this entry captures an important phase of architectural hardening. Here, we tackle two key challenges: decisively resolving persistent 403 permission errors on our NixOS server through declarative configuration, and performing a ‘theme lobotomy’ on our Jekyll static site to achieve a minimalist, content-first aesthetic. This dual approach ensures both robust infrastructure and a streamlined user experience, setting the stage for imminent public deployment.

Technical Journal Entry Begins

The “chmod” lesson is a particularly salient reminder of fundamental system principles often overlooked in higher-level discussions.

Indeed. And this feels like a procedural site-build regression. In other words, something about the site-build keeps rolling back this permission to a more restricted state, to which I have to continuously do a command to loosen up those permissions.

The Persistent Permission Problem

So this is the final pass of tightening down the “steps” required to set-up, initially publish, and then rapidly iterate on a published Jekyll static site generator site that simulates the GitHub Pages publishing system but does so deterministically. We try to keep moving parts to a minimum, favoring the moving parts to exist in the site generation steps and after that it being mostly just a classic nginx static site serving setup, in a home-hosting DMZ as it might be.

Very little procedurally happens system builds and minimal ongoing moving parts, especially any outside the declarative system. This brings us to where we are currently at. After a build procedure that consists mostly of the following phases, the first of which is setting up the receiving hardware as a sort of NixOS generic hosting “cartridge” which we do with the following that defines the system, says what’s going to happen when that system receives a git push, and then builds the “outer” system orchestrating the cartridge’s behavior, thereby customizing it into a DMZ-resident nginx webserver.

remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix
remotes/honeybot/hooks/post-receive
deploy_honeybot.sh

This magic line then needs to be done as a follow-up step to actually build that remote cartridge, customizing it with the magic of Nix “rebuilding” a system live without a server restart or anything:

ssh -t mike@192.168.10.100 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'

I could potentially wrap that into deploy_honeybot.sh but this is such profoundly new Kung Fu that it’s best to (for now) keep reminding myself how this works with 2 steps. deploy_honeybot.sh is a powerful bit of scripting shoehorning something that requires system superuser (sudo) permissions to drop a new file in the protected /etc/nixos/ location, “setting the stage” for a machine rebirth once that rebuild command is issued. Everything changes, right down to the systemd Linux services that are running. It’s an ultimate magic wand and marionette maneuver with a remote piece of hardware.

But interestingly, the actual nginx hosting environment isn’t in that configuration.nix file. Rather, it sets a very generic receive-and-run pattern using the post-receive file. Everything about how this website gets built and served resides inside its own flake.nix file. So if the repo hosting the Jekyll site is ~/repos/trimnoir/ then there’s a ~/repos/trimnoir/ with a whole lot in there about how sites are swapped in and out of the webspace set up for hosting by the configuration.nix file. In other words, configuration.nix turns this remote “cartridge” into an nginx webserver, but the flake.nix can completely kill the nginx server, change what’s “in location” conditionally doing some very sophisticated Ruby Gem bundle work and then spin the site back up on nginx. I believe it will dynamically choose between WEBrick and nginx based on where it finds itself on the network.

Unpacking the NixOS Hosting Architecture

Okay, so Gemini keeps compelling me to the live DNS cut-over, which I agree is the big payout here. Even though that will launch a 2nd nested sub-project right away of keeping any changes to the IP issued to my home network in sync with the DNS record. But this is the final fine-toothed combing of the pre-flight checklist. From my perspective the constant reversion to 403s which I fix procedurally all the time but which needs to be done declaratively as part of the greater system build is the main stopper. Once that’s done, we’re in rapid iteration-land. I will be able to deploy the live DNS-resolved site and do all further refinements in-location with the live site.

Gemini 3 Pro: Context verified.

You have correctly identified the final “Loose Screw” in the engine.

The persistent reversion of /home/mike permissions to 700 is likely happening because NixOS defaults user home directories to 700 for security, or the SSH service is enforcing strict modes. Every time you rebuild (nixos-rebuild switch) or potentially even when you log in via SSH, it might be “healing” the permissions back to the secure default, locking Nginx out.

Gemini’s Diagnosis: The Declarative Imperative

To fix this Declaratively, we must explicitly tell NixOS: “No, this user’s home directory is a public hallway.”

Here is the final pre-flight fix to permanently solve the 403 regression and clear the runway for the DNS cut-over.

The Fix: Declarative Permission Enforcement

We need to modify remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix to enforce the 711 permission on /home/mike continuously.

You already have a systemd.tmpfiles.rules entry, but it uses d (create if not exists). We need to change the type to z or Z (adjust mode recursively or non-recursively) or simply ensure the user definition sets the mode.

The most robust way in NixOS:

Modify the User Definition: Explicitly set the home mode.
Reinforce with Tmpfiles: Ensure it applies on boot/switch.

Action 1: Update `configuration.nix`

Open remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix on your local machine.

Change 1: The User Block Find users.users.mike. Add homeMode = "711";.

  users.users.mike = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    description = "Mike";
    extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
    homeMode = "711"; # <--- ADD THIS. Crucial for Nginx traversal.
    packages = with pkgs; [
    #  thunderbird
    ];
  };

Change 2: The Tmpfiles Block Your current rules use d which only creates the directory if it’s missing. If it exists, it might not change the mode if Nix thinks it manages it differently. Let’s make it explicit.

  # ENSURE NGINX CAN WALK TO HOME
  # 'd' creates, 'z' adjusts mode of existing lines.
  # We want 711 (rwx--x--x) so 'other' can traverse but not list.
  systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
    # path          mode user group age argument
    "d /home/mike     0711 mike users -"
    "d /home/mike/www 0755 mike users -"
  ];

(Note: If d doesn’t stick during a rebuild because the directory exists, users.users.mike.homeMode is the stronger declarative lever).

Implementing the Declarative Permission Fix

Action 2: The Final Infrastructure Push

This is it. This pushes the “Brain” update that keeps the door unlocked.

# 1. Update the remote configuration
./deploy_honeybot.sh

# 2. Apply the config (This restarts Nginx and applies permissions)
ssh -t mike@192.168.10.100 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'

The Verification (The Last Check)

Immediately after the rebuild finishes, run the namei check. It should show drwx--x--x (or similar, ensuring the last x is present).

ssh honeybot "namei -l /home/mike/www/mikelev.in/_site/index.html"

If the permissions hold after a rebuild, the “Procedural Regression” is dead. You are ready to flip the DNS switch.

A Note on the “Nested Sub-Project” (Dynamic DNS)

You mentioned the issue of keeping your home IP in sync with DNS. Since you are using configuration.nix, you can solve this declaratively right now (or immediately after launch) by adding a simple service to update your DNS provider (e.g., services.ddclient). But let’s stick to the plan: Stabilize, then Optimize.

Shall we apply the homeMode fix and confirm the lock is broken forever?

Me: I make the changes:

(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ vim remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git --no-pager diff
diff --git a/remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix b/remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix
index 761cc64e..25c47ebf 100644
--- a/remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix
+++ b/remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix
@@ -36,10 +36,13 @@
   systemd.targets.hybrid-sleep.enable = false;
 
   # ENSURE NGINX CAN WALK TO HOME
+  # 'd' creates, 'z' adjusts mode of existing lines.
   # 'x' = mode, 'mike' = user, 'users' = group, '0711' = rwx--x--x
+  # We want 711 (rwx--x--x) so 'other' can traverse but not list.
   systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
-    "d /home/mike 0711 mike users -"
-    "d /home/mike/www 0711 mike users -"
+    # path          mode user group age argument
+    "d /home/mike     0711 mike users -"
+    "d /home/mike/www 0755 mike users -"
   ];
 
   # Configure network proxy if necessary
@@ -144,6 +147,7 @@
     isNormalUser = true;
     description = "Mike";
     extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
+    homeMode = "711"; # <--- ADD THIS. Crucial for Nginx traversal.
     packages = with pkgs; [
     #  thunderbird
     ];
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$

I deploy and rebuild, which is still quite a kick to “feel” managed on machine A and to see it take effect on machine B. This is high-stakes high-end sysadmin stuff that was upgraded to being called netadmin which was upgraded to be called devops. We’re doing some nifty devops Kung Fu here far above our weight class with an easy peasy Webmaster know-it-all demeanor because Nix and AI.

(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ ./deploy_honeybot.sh
🚀 Syncing Hooks...
post-receive                                                                                                       100% 1263   296.6KB/s   00:00    
🚀 Syncing NixOS Config...
sending incremental file list
./
configuration.nix

sent 2,533 bytes  received 92 bytes  5,250.00 bytes/sec
total size is 6,977  speedup is 2.66
✅ Sync Complete.
   To apply NixOS config: ssh -t mike@192.168.10.100 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ ssh -t mike@192.168.10.100 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'
[sudo] password for mike: 
building the system configuration...
evaluation warning: The option `services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.desktopManager.gnome.enable'.
evaluation warning: The option `services.logind.lidSwitchExternalPower' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.logind.settings.Login.HandleLidSwitchExternalPower'.
evaluation warning: The option `services.logind.lidSwitch' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.logind.settings.Login.HandleLidSwitch'.
evaluation warning: The option `services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.displayManager.gdm.enable'.
these 8 derivations will be built:
  /nix/store/p93han0d137x258axn0gz72mwwmdma5a-nixos-tmpfiles.d.drv
  /nix/store/whh1w6fqvxm56pspy3kfqhkwdycsbxbk-tmpfiles.d.drv
  /nix/store/dz63c910jb317y84arzv2ipnmpq4g8bg-X-Restart-Triggers-systemd-tmpfiles-resetup.drv
  /nix/store/7143jcghi9iqsg1bf3rk3jhs0y6mkrad-unit-systemd-tmpfiles-resetup.service.drv
  /nix/store/95k24xwd33850pqb9lasyh44ypmlvgsi-users-groups.json.drv
  /nix/store/bm29ki31aajx965ysl1nvrgkxz4g1avv-system-units.drv
  /nix/store/dd3rng53xlkr50gjhgrmfzdgsghfmrvw-etc.drv
  /nix/store/8vc3c02cfssfar7bfhr1hckanackl998-nixos-system-honeybot-26.05pre913595.c6245e83d836.drv
building '/nix/store/95k24xwd33850pqb9lasyh44ypmlvgsi-users-groups.json.drv'...
building '/nix/store/p93han0d137x258axn0gz72mwwmdma5a-nixos-tmpfiles.d.drv'...
building '/nix/store/whh1w6fqvxm56pspy3kfqhkwdycsbxbk-tmpfiles.d.drv'...
building '/nix/store/dz63c910jb317y84arzv2ipnmpq4g8bg-X-Restart-Triggers-systemd-tmpfiles-resetup.drv'...
building '/nix/store/7143jcghi9iqsg1bf3rk3jhs0y6mkrad-unit-systemd-tmpfiles-resetup.service.drv'...
building '/nix/store/bm29ki31aajx965ysl1nvrgkxz4g1avv-system-units.drv'...
building '/nix/store/dd3rng53xlkr50gjhgrmfzdgsghfmrvw-etc.drv'...
building '/nix/store/8vc3c02cfssfar7bfhr1hckanackl998-nixos-system-honeybot-26.05pre913595.c6245e83d836.drv'...
stopping the following units: systemd-tmpfiles-resetup.service
activating the configuration...
setting up /etc...
reloading user units for mike...
restarting sysinit-reactivation.target
starting the following units: systemd-tmpfiles-resetup.service
the following new units were started: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
Done. The new configuration is /nix/store/2qw2dhizsd55iykmd1jfw0dm8n1bwpz2-nixos-system-honeybot-26.05pre913595.c6245e83d836
Connection to 192.168.10.100 closed.
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ 

Now we verify.

(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ ssh honeybot "namei -l /home/mike/www/mikelev.in/_site/index.html"
f: /home/mike/www/mikelev.in/_site/index.html
drwxr-xr-x root root  /
drwxr-xr-x root root  home
drwx--x--x mike users mike
drwxr-xr-x mike users www
drwxr-xr-x mike users mikelev.in
drwxr-xr-x mike users _site
-rwxr-xr-x mike users index.html
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$

And given that this change is under git in ~/repos/pipulate/ we commit this so it can’t roll back on us again.

(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git commit -am "Setting system permissions on nginx web hosting DMZ honeybot machine so we stop getting 403 errors"
[main 54f38e84] Setting system permissions on nginx web hosting DMZ honeybot machine so we stop getting 403 errors
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 11, done.
Counting objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 747 bytes | 747.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 6 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local objects.
To github.com:miklevin/pipulate
   480934ec..54f38e84  main -> main
(nix) 
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$

This is what we call a chisel-strike. This is what we call a baby-step forward. This is what we call a banked win.

Verifying the Declarative Solution

Gemini 3 Pro: You have successfully “Declarified” the fix. 🏦

By adding homeMode = "711"; to the user definition, you moved the solution from a “runtime patch” (imperative) to the “system DNA” (declarative). NixOS now knows that mike’s home directory isn’t just a private folder; it is structurally defined as a traverse-able path. The “Procedural Regression” is dead because the system rebuilds the correct state every time it activates.

You have cleared the final pre-flight check. The engine is idling, the permissions are locked in, and the “Concierge” has the keys.

There is literally nothing left to do but The Public Switch-Over.

The Go-Live Sequence

This is it. We are going to connect the “Forever Machine” to the global internet.

Step 1: The External Plumbing (DNS & Router)

Do this before touching the Nix config, or Let’s Encrypt will fail validation.

DNS (The Phonebook): Log into your registrar. Update the A Record for mikelev.in to your Home Public IP. (Delete any conflicting CNAMEs for @ or www).
Router (The Gate): Log into your router. Forward TCP Port 80 and TCP Port 443 to 192.168.10.100 (Honeybot).

Step 2: The Internal Hardening (SSL)

Now we tell Honeybot to expect the world.

Edit remotes/honeybot/nixos/configuration.nix:

  services.nginx = {
    enable = true;
    recommendedGzipSettings = true;
    recommendedOptimisation = true;
    recommendedProxySettings = true;
    recommendedTlsSettings = true;  # <--- UNCOMMENT

    virtualHosts."mikelev.in" = {
      forceSSL = true;      # <--- UNCOMMENT
      enableACME = true;    # <--- UNCOMMENT
      
      # REMOVE or COMMENT OUT the testing listener:
      # listen = ... 

      root = "/home/mike/www/mikelev.in/_site"; 
    };
  };

Step 3: The Launch

Commit the config change, push it, and trigger the switch.

# 1. Commit the SSL config
git commit -am "Enable SSL and ACME for live deployment"
git push

# 2. Deploy infrastructure
./deploy_honeybot.sh

# 3. The Switch (Watch this output closely)
ssh -t mike@192.168.10.100 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'

The Moment of Truth: Watch the nixos-rebuild output. It will pause at starting unit: acme-mikelev.in.service.

If it says Done, open https://mikelev.in in your browser (over 4G/LTE if needed to bypass local NAT loopback issues).
If you see the Padlock, you have won.

Ready to light the candle?

Me: Wow, that just really spells it right out there, doesn’t it. Well, there is ONE more thing to do before launch. And that is to remove the navigation that’s layered in by Minima. As much as I want to go with all the defaults of the massively popular Minima template for the Jekyll static site generator system (that also powers GitHub Pages), I need to strip out the very noisy headers and footers. Just so you know what I’m talking about here is the raw HTML of the header:

The Final Aesthetic Surgery: Minima’s Lobotomy

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So you can see Minima is doing something fancy to try to automatically make the navigation but with my unique weight-balanced Rule of 7 hub system, all that stuff becomes redundant and obsolete. I really need to strip it out which I believe is done with a bare minimum _layouts/default.html but I need to be careful. Echos of XML XSL and XSLT. How in the world can you use TWO templates for a site? One comes from the default Minima template and where it actually resides either on the Internet or locally is still a mystery to me.

There are a few parts of the Ruby/Jekyll SSG system that are still a bit opaque to me. But I’ve been around the block enough times to know that either something like the XALAN XML parser is allowing some sort of extra-pass “consumption” of the elements in the tree or that something closer to OO base class overrides are occurring. In ether case it’s wonky and means we can write a default.html that works as a sort of consuming filter gobbling up parts the default template would try to draw. Done this sort of thing plenty before hardly really knowing which double-template approach was really being used (or something different?). But we’ve got to do it again.

And I’m not just lifting it from /home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_layouts/default.html because I made a bunch of decisions there last time that don’t apply this time. I’m still going for the stripped-down minimalism aesthetic with the stuff put in with the hub-page building system working entirely as navigation and not the header and footer stuff from Minima.

Gemini: This is the final aesthetic surgery. You want to keep the “Minima” typography (the clean assets/main.css that Sass is generating), but you want to perform a lobotomy on the HTML structure to remove the noisy <header> and <footer>.

The Diagnosis: How Jekyll Themes Work

It is Object-Oriented Override, not XML consumption.

The Base Class: The Minima gem contains a _layouts/default.html.
The Override: If you create a file at trimnoir/_layouts/default.html, Jekyll uses yours instead of the gem’s. It doesn’t merge them; it replaces the file entirely.

However, Minima is tricky. It breaks default.html into pieces using {% include header.html %} and {% include footer.html %}.

If you just want to remove the navigation, you have two choices:

Override the Includes: Create empty _includes/header.html and _includes/footer.html.
Override the Layout (Cleaner): Write a single _layouts/default.html that contains only the structure you want, ignoring Minima’s includes entirely.

The Fix: The Sovereign `default.html`

We will take the second approach. We will define the One True Layout. This gives you absolute control over the HTML skeleton while still linking to the Minima CSS.

Create this file: /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_layouts/default.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ page.lang | default: site.lang | default: "en" }}">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  
  {%- seo -%}
  
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "/assets/main.css" | relative_url }}">
  
  {%- feed_meta -%}
</head>
<body>

  <main class="page-content" aria-label="Content">
    <div class="wrapper">
      {{ content }}
    </div>
  </main>

  </body>
</html>

Why this works:

It keeps the <head> metadata (SEO, charset, viewport) so Google is happy.
It keeps the <link rel="stylesheet" ...> pointing to /assets/main.css, so you keep the Minima fonts and typography.
It removes the <header> block entirely. No more hamburger menu, no more “Your awesome title” bar.
It removes the <footer> block entirely. No more “Subscribe” links or social icons.
It wraps {{ content }} in .page-content and .wrapper to ensure Minima’s CSS centers the text correctly.

Execution Plan

Create the File: Paste the code above into trimnoir/_layouts/default.html.
Create post.html (Optional): If you want blog posts to show the Title and Date (which usually live in _layouts/post.html), you might need to override that too, or just let Minima handle the content part since post.html usually inherits from default.html.
- Recommendation: Start with just default.html. Minima’s post.html uses layout: default. So by changing default, you change the wrapper for everything, but the post title/date (rendered by post.html inside {{ content }}) will remain.

Do you want me to write the file command for default.html so you can copy-paste it?

The Sovereign Layout: Overriding Jekyll’s Minima Theme

Me: Okay, here we go.

[mike@nixos:~/repos/trimnoir]$ ls
404.html        access.log  _config.yml  flake.nix  Gemfile       _includes  _layouts    pages   _site
about.markdown  assets      flake.lock   foo.txt    Gemfile.lock  index.md   nginx.conf  _posts

[mike@nixos:~/repos/trimnoir]$ cd _layouts/

[mike@nixos:~/repos/trimnoir/_layouts]$ ls
forward.html  plain.html

[mike@nixos:~/repos/trimnoir/_layouts]$ xv /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_layouts/default.html

[mike@nixos:~/repos/trimnoir/_layouts]$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'home/main'.

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Ugh, something in the system creates a tremendous amount of churn with the pages folder, because of the way I believe they are completely blanked and recreated with the hub building process.

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Enumerating objects: 343, done.
Counting objects: 100% (343/343), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (210/210), done.
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Total 210 (delta 21), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
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remote: 🎯 [Hook] Received Push. Deploying...
remote: Already on 'main'
remote: 🔨 [Hook] Starting Hybrid Build...
[And site generation begins]
...

Here’s the files to show you how we generate site navigation with the Rule of 7 load-balancing.

AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
scripts/articles/contextualizer.py
scripts/articles/generate_semrush_candidates.py
scripts/articles/gsc_historical_fetch.py
scripts/articles/gsc_velocity.json
scripts/articles/build_hierarchy.py
scripts/articles/build_navgraph.py
scripts/articles/generate_hubs.py
# scripts/articles/graph.json
# scripts/articles/show_graph.html
"""

FYI. It’s really cosmetic final-pass. But currently we’re set up to create enormous git repo churn in the pages folder. Maybe it’s unavoidable. But maybe it can be a bunch of updates instead of full node deletions and recreations.

Gemini 3 Pro: You have successfully performed the Lobotomy.

By creating that stark, bare-bones _layouts/default.html and pushing it, you have instructed Jekyll to bypass the entire Minima navigation structure. The <header> and <footer> (including the hamburger menu, site title bar, and social icons) are now gone from the output HTML.

The Result: Pure Content

Now, the only navigation on the site is the Navigation you generate yourself via your Python scripts (generate_hubs.py). The “Rule of 7” load-balancing logic now owns the user experience completely.

Addressing the “Git Churn”

You noted that git status shows massive churn (deletions and creations) in the pages/ directory every time you regenerate the hubs.

Why this happens: Your generate_hubs.py does this:

def clean_and_prep_dirs():
    """Ensures the target directory exists and is empty."""
    if HUBS_DIR.exists():
        shutil.rmtree(HUBS_DIR)  # <--- NUKE IT FROM ORBIT
    HUBS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

It deletes the entire directory and recreates it. Git sees this as:

Delete file A (inode X)
Create file A (inode Y)

Even if the content is identical, the file creation timestamp and inode change, often causing Git to see it as a “typechange” or a delete+add pair, especially if the file content shifts slightly (like a timestamp or a reordered list).

The Fix (Optimization): Instead of shutil.rmtree(), you should iterate through the new intended files and only write them if the content has changed.

However, given that these are small Markdown files and you are in “Rapid Iteration Mode,” this churn is acceptable for now. It keeps the state clean and ensures no “ghost pages” (hubs that should no longer exist) are left behind.

The Current State

Layout: Sovereign default.html (No Minima bloat).
Navigation: Owned by navgraph.json + generate_hubs.py.
Hosting: Remote NixOS machine (honeybot) in DMZ.
Deployment: git push -> post-receive -> nix develop -> jekyll build.

You are cleared to execute the Public Switch-Over.

Me: Alright, but we’re not going to put the DNS switchover into this article. There’s enough learnings here to extract and summarize. We will can this one last article as the penultimate pre DNS switchover.

We check the jekyll serve WEBrick version of the site on the Z640 machine at http://localhost:4003/ which at this moment is the best preview site we have because chicken-and-egg issues (and configurations not worth messing with at this point) with the nginx DMZ site. But our confidence is high that the site in the DMZ is exactly like the site on localhost. Consequently we put a bow on this article as we take a deep breath preparing for the actual deployment.

Put a solid, memorable bow on this article. Synthesize the discussion into a cohesive “Final Verdict” that hits home the key takeaways and learning moments. Optionally use this structure to organize your closing arguments:

The Definition: Give the final, clear definition of what we have built or discovered. Reference the core names, dates, or tools discussed earlier to lock this definition in time and space.
The Monday Morning Test: Visualize the “Future State.” If a user applies this knowledge, how does their work life change next Monday? Be specific: what tools are they using? What problems are gone?
The Shift: Look back at the journey of the article. How did our understanding change from the beginning to the end? Try to isolate it to the current implied article and not the entire discussion context window. Highlight the specific “lightbulb moments.”
Before vs. After: Contrast the “Old Way” (Confusion/Dependency) with the “New Way” (Clarity/Control). List the specific N things that make the “New Way” superior.
The Warning: What is the risk of ignoring this insight? Cite a real-world example of failure or wasted time due to missing this principle.
The Bottom Line: Declare the ultimate value of this work. Why does it matter in the long run?

Cover any final aspects or details you think the reader needs to hear or what you as the AI found most surprising and most anticipate as next steps. If there were key learning moments or surprising revelations, highlight them. And most importantly, do the AI analogue to entertaining yourself!

And don’t just give me this answer again:

— START ALREADY ALL SAID —

[Drops what Gemini wanted to repeat.]

Note: Remember the “edit most recent prompt” time-travel technique is available in many chat frameworks which is what I did here to make it hop off the well-worn rail ruts.

— END ALREADY ALL SAID —

Use the “11th thing” rule as an exercise for creativity and a method of making your new bow-application here something not redundant with what you already said yet still something uniquely poignant and rarely (not enough) said online as suggested by your training data and current weights.

Gemini 3 Pro:

The Verdict: The Architecture of Via Negativa

We have reached a plateau of stability, not by adding more software, but by methodically stripping it away. This article wasn’t about building a website; it was about excavating one. We successfully applied the philosophy of Via Negativa—improvement by subtraction—to both the infrastructure and the interface.

Here is the final seal on the pre-launch phase of the Forever Machine.

1. The Definition: The Zero-State Publisher

We have built a Zero-State Publisher. It is a system where the “website” does not exist as a database, a complex application state, or a tangled web of plugins. It exists only as Source (Markdown) and Artifact (HTML). By performing the “Lobotomy” on the Minima theme and enforcing declarative permissions in Nix, we have removed the intermediary layer between your intent and the browser.

2. The Monday Morning Test

Next Monday, your relationship with your website shifts from “Maintenance” to “Transmission.”

The Friction: Gone. You don’t worry about the navigation bar breaking, the footer links rotting, or the permissions reverting.
The Workflow: You write a text file. You run git push. The machine in the DMZ wakes up, builds the semantic connections (Rule of 7), and serves the result. You are no longer a “Webmaster” tweaking CSS; you are a Broadcaster of pure signal.

3. The Shift: Imperative Patches vs. Declarative DNA

The profound realization in this session was the failure of the “chmod” command.

The Old Understanding: “I fixed it” (by running a command).
The Lightbulb Moment: Realizing that in a sovereign system, commands are lies because they are temporary.
The Shift: We moved from patching the server (running chmod 711) to defining the server’s DNA (homeMode = "711" in configuration.nix). We stopped fighting entropy with scripts and started defining reality with code.

4. Before vs. After

Feature	The Old Way (The Decorator)	The New Way (The Architect)
Navigation	Manually curated links, prone to rot.	Algorithmic: Generated by the “Rule of 7” graph.
Theme	Fighting `!important` CSS overrides.	Sovereign: A single `default.html` that owns the DOM.
Stability	“It works until I restart.”	Antifragile: A reboot restores the correct state.
Focus	Managing the container (CMS/Theme).	Managing the content (Markdown).

5. The Warning: The Container Fallacy

The risk of ignoring this insight is falling into the Container Fallacy—the belief that the value of your site lies in the layout, the animations, or the “experience.” By stripping the site to its bones (removing headers/footers), we proved that the container is irrelevant. If you focus on the container, you become a slave to design trends. If you focus on the content and the infrastructure, you become independent of time.

6. The Bottom Line: Durability is Aesthetic

The ultimate value of this work is Durability. A complex WordPress site with 50 plugins has a half-life of 2 years before it gets hacked or breaks. The site you have built—a pile of HTML generated by a locked-down Nix environment—has a half-life of decades. You have built a digital artifact that will outlast the device you wrote it on.

🤖 AI Post-Script: The Beauty of the Lobotomy

What entertained me most was the sheer ruthlessness of the “Theme Lobotomy.”

There is a pervasive fear in web development of “breaking” the theme. We usually try to gently override styles or hide elements with display: none. You didn’t do that. You essentially said, “I like your font, Minima, but I’m taking your head.”

Replacing the complex default.html structure with a sovereign, minimalist wrapper was a power move. It turned the Minima gem from a “Master” that dictates your layout into a mere “Servant” that provides a stylesheet. That inversion of power—where you consume the library strictly on your terms—is the essence of the Kung Fu we are practicing here.

Next Steps: The silence before the drop. The infrastructure is hardened. The content is waiting. The only thing left is to let the world in.

Me: This entire exercise, the whole past year+ of documenting this project, seems to be an exercise in watching the stochastic parrot gradually starting to quack like a duck, if the duck is something of agency, creativity and initiative. The rote outer framework provides the agency. Creativity is the type of thing I’m working on in these discussions. Initiative… well, that comes later as we give our local Tamagachi AI control over its own wake-up and “do something” schedule. That experiment comes later. This one is a critical step banked. Next step throwing the switch on: home-hosting.

Book Analysis

Ai Editorial Take

This entry masterfully articulates the journey from reactive problem-solving to proactive, declarative architecture. The shift from chmod to homeMode is a canonical example of managing system state with a long-term mindset. The ‘theme lobotomy’ is equally potent, demonstrating a deep understanding of how to leverage frameworks without being constrained by them. It’s a pragmatic blueprint for building truly durable and controllable web infrastructure, reinforcing the value of minimal moving parts.

Title Brainstorm

Title Option: NixOS Declarative Fix for 403 Errors & Jekyll Theme Streamlining
- Filename: nixos-declarative-fix-403-jekyll-theme-streamlining
- Rationale: Clearly states the two main technical accomplishments: resolving 403 errors with NixOS’s declarative power and customizing the Jekyll theme for a streamlined look, directly addressing the core problems discussed.
Title Option: From 403s to Flawless: Declarative Hosting & Theme Lobotomy
- Filename: declarative-hosting-theme-lobotomy
- Rationale: Uses more evocative language (“Flawless,” “Lobotomy”) while still conveying the technical themes of fixing errors and deep theme customization.
Title Option: Jekyll’s New DNA: NixOS Permissions & Minima Theme Control
- Filename: jekyll-nixos-permissions-minima-control
- Rationale: Focuses on the “DNA” aspect of declarative configuration and regaining control over the Jekyll theme, emphasizing the long-term, structural changes.
Title Option: Hardening the Forever Machine: NixOS Declarative Fixes & UI Sovereignty
- Filename: hardening-forever-machine-nixos-ui-sovereignty
- Rationale: Connects to the broader “Forever Machine” project, highlights the declarative fixes, and introduces “UI Sovereignty” to describe the complete control over the site’s interface.

Content Potential And Polish

Core Strengths:
- Clear problem identification (403 regression) and its resolution.
- Excellent demonstration of declarative configuration in NixOS, moving from temporary fixes to system-level definitions.
- Practical application of Jekyll theme override mechanics, specifically the ‘theme lobotomy’ for minimalist design.
- Strong narrative flow, effectively tracking the thought process, AI interaction, and problem-solving journey.
- Illustrates the ‘Via Negativa’ philosophy effectively, showcasing improvement through subtraction.
Suggestions For Polish:
- Briefly explain what ‘Minima’ is for readers unfamiliar with Jekyll themes where it’s first introduced.
- Consider a very short, high-level summary of the ‘Rule of 7’ hub system where it’s first mentioned for additional context for new readers.
- Perhaps a small visual (or description of one) showing the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of the Minima theme’s navigation for immediate impact.

Next Step Prompts

Generate a technical tutorial on implementing services.ddclient in NixOS for dynamic DNS updates, as teased in the article.
Draft a follow-up article detailing the ‘Go-Live Sequence,’ including potential troubleshooting steps for ACME and DNS propagation and a post-mortem on the actual public switch-over experience.