https://dev-journal.hallblazzar.dev/categories/projects/ Recent content in Projects on Hallblazzar: Dev Journal Hugo en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dev-journal.hallblazzar.dev/posts/2026_apr_12_lbhelper/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dev-journal.hallblazzar.dev/posts/2026_apr_12_lbhelper/ <div class="notice tip"> <div class="notice-title"> <i class="fa-solid fa-lightbulb" aria-hidden="true"></i>Tip </div> <div class="notice-content"><p>TL;DR: If you&rsquo;re trying to build your own Debian image(especially for desktop environment), I created a Python3 based library, <a href="https://hallblazzar.github.io/lbhelper/source/index.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lbhelper</a>, could help you simplify the work.</p> <ul> <li>Online document - <a href="https://hallblazzar.github.io/lbhelper/source/index.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://hallblazzar.github.io/lbhelper/source/index.html</a></li> <li>GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/HallBlazzar/lbhelper" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/HallBlazzar/lbhelper</a></li> <li>A Debian Image based on this library, which is also the OS I run on my laptop - <a href="https://github.com/HallBlazzar/myos" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/HallBlazzar/myos</a></li> <li>PyPi page - <a href="https://pypi.org/project/lbhelper/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://pypi.org/project/lbhelper/</a></li> </ul></div> </div> <h2 id="image-customization-options"> Image Customization Options <a class="heading-link" href="#image-customization-options"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>If you&rsquo;re trying to build your own Debian image for your desktop/laptop, you might have hard time on finding a suitable solution. In general, people tend to run shell scripts or <a href="https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_intro.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ansible playbooks</a> after first boot, which is simple and straightforward. But these scripts are rarely performed and handy, which are broken easily as packages/configs out-of-date. Though the <a href="https://penguins-eggs.net/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penguin&rsquo;s Egg</a> is a good approaches to package your system, result image is easily become non-reproducible as changes to packages/configs are missing. Some people might consider <a href="https://fai-project.org/FAIme/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAI</a>, but it doesn&rsquo;t provide customizations more than install packages. <a href="https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Packer</a> seems makes result more reliable and reproducible, but is too heavy as it requires VMs to build images.</p>