This post contains my personal notes on how to set up Dendrite, Matrix.org’s second-generation homeserver written in Go. These notes are not yet complete, but do contain the basics to get things going.

By default, nano on Debian Buster does not support syntax highlighting YAML files. Adding this template to nano will give you syntax highlighting when opening YAML files in nano. sudo tee /usr/share/nano/yaml.

sudo apt install unbound sudo su -c "unbound-anchor -a /var/lib/unbound/root.key" sudo tee -a /etc/unbound/unbound.conf << EOF > /dev/null server: interface: 127.0.0.1 interface: ::1 access-control: 127.0.0.0/8 allow access-control: ::1/128 allow # enable remote-control (useful when utilising monitoring tools such as netdata) remote-control: control-enable: yes EOF sudo systemctl restart unbound sudo apt install resolvconf sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces change nameservers to 127.

sudo nano /etc/sudoers add # Paswordless sudo %sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Recently, I’ve become a big fan of replacing bash with zsh as my standard shell on Debian. Combined with the Oh My Zsh (GitHub) framework, it makes the terminal more convenient to use, offering better history search, autocompletion and plugins for many popular tools, such as git, systemctl and kubectl.