abcdw

abcdw, 21 hours ago (edited 21 hours ago) to books

If you could recommend only one book from your field of interest/expertise. What it whould be?

#book #books

abcdw, 1 day ago to random

This is an year of rejects :D I got an official reject for turkey residence permit today.

P.S. I already have tickets to Georgia, and we plan a guix meetup in Tbilisi's hackerspace soon.

abcdw, 2 days ago to random

When I find a new home, I'll put a hammock in my working room. It sooo cool to hang in it in all sorts of strange positions, if you have a good enough flexibility. Even with laptop.

P.S. I hate working lying down, but it feels ok in hammock, especially, when you change positions frequently.

abcdw, 2 days ago to DOOM

Doom as a process management utility.

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

#doom #unix #linux #posix

abcdw, 4 days ago to scheme

All the basics of Arei Scheme IDE in 5 minutes. Overview of functionality avaliable in 0.9.4.

mpv https://youtu.be/ygeph9Uet9A

https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei

#guile #scheme #lisp #ide #nrepl

fsf, 7 days ago to random

This just in from our photographer, the first photo of David Wilson's keynote which kicked LibrePlanet 2024 off today. Thanks for the great talk!

w96k, 7 days ago to random

Made 2nd account for posting stuff on different topics. Current mastodon account I will use for posting mostly Libre software and programming things.

I do this because I have a feeling that my followers might be annoyed by posts in another languages and not-related to IT topics. The instance is called fosstodon, so I guess it is a good idea to post stuff related to FOSS.

I encourage you to follow me here, if you are kinda interested in not only software, but my life:

https://mk.phreedom.club/@w96k

abcdw, 10 days ago to scheme

We released Arei Guile IDE 0.9.4. It's already available in Guix.
https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei/refs/0.9.4
https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs/refs/0.9.4

It has eldoc and xref (go to definition) features, better completion and a few other improvements.

Big kudos to @krevedkokun for implementing them.

We are working hard towards 1.0, which will be even more exciting:
https://todo.sr.ht/~abcdw/tickets?search=label%3Amilestone-arei-1.0

#guile #scheme #lisp #guix

abcdw, 11 days ago to emacs

Did you know that you can do a git log just for a small part of the file?

#git #magit #emacs

abcdw, 11 days ago to random

pegasus airlines can't send emails to mail+flypgs.com@trop.in

I contacted migadu support and wait for their reply, but something tells me that the problem is not on receiving side :)

picnoir, 12 days ago to random

Guix day 1:

I spent most of the day getting comfortable with Guile and the basics of Guix services.

Followed the "perfect hacking setup" manual section (I'm lucky, I'm using Emacs). Geiser is okay-ish, but fails a lot of times (can't jump to definition in g-expressions for instance). Overall, the builtin yasnippets, and paredit are good and useful, geiser fails to jump to definition too many times to be really useful.

I have a fully functional sway/pipewire/xdg-desktop-portal setup. Costed me quite some headaches.

Guix home is super nice and definitely more integrated than home-manager.

I migrated ~60% of my laptop NixOS configuration. The remaining 40% are going to be pretty painful to migrate, Guix is currently lacking some features to do so (writers, secret management). I'll probably have to write the missing features to continue the migration, but I'm not comfortable enough with Guile/Guix to do so yet.

I packaged my first package (power-profiles-daemon) and wrote a service for that.

I really like the Guix service system. A lot more than the NixOS module system.

Tomorrow, I'll have to face my nemesis: mailing-list-powered patches. I'm 6 commits ahead of my Guix channel, it's time to reduce the stack and start cleaning/upstreaming the changes.

I'm not in love with Guile yet. Part of it probably comes from my inexperience, using it is still painful and slows me down a lot.

I hit a massive roadblock at some point: the guile error message was lying to me. I had a module with an error in it, and instead of throwing an error message, Guile was lying to me and telling me I was not loading this module, and giving me a hint explaining me how to load the module. But, I was already loading the module!! Gazlighted by the interpreter :D

Took me a good 2h before realizing the interpreter was lying to me. I need to find a minimal reproducer to send to the email list.

Massive kudos to @ekaitz_zarraga who helped me in the process :)

abcdw, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Very nice summary on nix flakes:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-why-and-how-in-12-minutes/40558

#nix #guix