abcdw

abcdw, 1 year ago to random

Lack of a built-in associative array/map in Scheme regularly hits and bothers me. It's so generic and so useful, maybe we will add it in r8rs?

Alists doesn't work here not only for performance reason, but because we can't distinguish empty list and empty alist.

#scheme #lisp #guile

abcdw, 1 month ago to guix

Bug tracker for RDE.

RDE is already quite big project with a few subprojects and it's hard to track feature requests, reports, milestones, their dependencies and to collocate and organize them properly and share publicly.

That's why for last few weeks I was looking at different project management/bug tracking solutions.

From what I found so far it seems that Bugzilla is the best option at the moment.

Thoughts?

https://www.bugzilla.org/

#bugzilla #bugs #guix #RDE

abcdw, 8 months ago to scheme

One more reason why it's hard to use alists as associative data structure: There is no built-in destructuring capabilities for it. It seems (ice-9 match) is no help here. Situation becomes even worse if we have a nested data structure.

Going to stack a bunch of let+assoc-ref's I guess.

#scheme #lisp #guile #clojure

abcdw, 10 months ago to guix

KDE on Guix System.

https://github.com/Z572/guix/tree/kde-5.108.0

#guix #kde #plasma

abcdw, 4 months ago to guix

Wrote to incognet.io a proposal to cooperate and make a Guix System option for their VPSes and dedicated servers.

https://github.com/abcdw/notes/blob/26b3830854ad3a5fa136f30b2ca542502189257b/notes/20240118121327-proposal_for_incognet_io_on_guix_base_image.org#L9

@incognet

#guix #vps #hosting #SelfHosting

abcdw, 9 months ago to guix

One of the most popular distributions based on GNU Guix turned 3000 commits, wow!

https://sr.ht/~abcdw/rde/
https://github.com/abcdw/rde

#rde #guix #guile #scheme #linux #emacs

abcdw, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

During the following month I want to make a few pair programming sessions (one, maybe two per week) with different people.

1. To work more focused on particular tasks and projects.
2. To see how other people work and learn from peers.
3. To share some experience.
4. To cleanup and optimize inefficient workflows.
5. To talk with folks in person, not only via toots/emails.

Like 2 hours informal coding session.

Toot if you would like to hack with me on your task or mine! :)

Preferably #scheme.

abcdw, 6 months ago to email

gandi changed their free mail service (advertised as a free addition to your domain) to paid one and it cost 4EUR/month per mailbox, there is also a yearly option, which cost 48EUR/year 😄

The service isn't bad, but I wouldn't say it's great in some way either.

Looking for place to migrate. migadu.com, mailbox.org or something else:
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

My notes on the topic:
https://github.com/abcdw/notes/blob/446cb2a98b28d71d9f7c9418a9da6fb0e51d405d/notes/20230313143331-mail_providers.org#L6

#email #mail #europeanunion #europe #privacy #ethics

abcdw, 8 months ago to emacs

Trying to set up a bibliography and article note-taking workflow with org-roam, org-cite and citar. Looks quite hard so far.

#emacs #orgmode

abcdw, 5 months ago to emacs

I fought FOMO (fear of missing out) so hard that I missed my Q&A for EmacsConf 2023 (:

The talk was about Guile Scheme IDE:
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/scheme/

I would really love to hear your feedback and questions, so if you have some, post it here or reach me out via https://trop.in/contact

Kudos to @sachac and the organizers team for making such a great conference.

#emacs #emacsconf #guile #scheme #lisp #guix #rde

abcdw, 5 months ago to guix

I moved to a new drive, built and installed system with guix system init. Aaand it stucks during the boot. Any ideas why?

#guix #linux #grub #boot #rde

abcdw, 8 months ago to Lisp

Implementation of with-pipes function. It can be used for capturing i/o of threads or subprocesses for example.

Does it look like idiomatic Scheme code?

https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-nrepl/commit/9faef3b

#sheme #lisp

abcdw, 8 months ago to guix

Bibliography in Emacs.

1. I found a Zotero guix package: https://github.com/guix-science/guix-science/pull/27/files

2. @goku12 mentioned https://github.com/mpedramfar/zotra emacs package, which can use zotero translators without zotero client itself!

3. There is org-capture-ref package. https://github.com/yantar92/org-capture-ref, which is similiar to zotra, but more ad-hoc.

4. It's seems that a good solution will be to package zotra and translation-server and setup org-protocol handler for capturing bib entries from browser.

#guix #zotero #emacs #orgmode

abcdw, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

My home for the nearest future.

abcdw, 8 months ago to guix

You can try a GNU Hurd kernel based operating system made with Guix in your browser:

https://gexp.no/blog/try-gnuhurd-in-the-browser.html

#gnu #hurd #guix #kernel #linux

abcdw, 8 months ago to random

There are a lot of benefits in mailing list based development, but there are so many ways to do something wrong: send a patch to a wrong message/thread, forget cover letter or In-Reply-To header, attach instead of inline and so on.

Technically all the tools are available, but it takes a tangible amount of time and practice to configure them and start doing everything properly.

Resources like https://git-send-email.io/ helps, but still doesn't solve the issue completely.

#emacs #git #email

abcdw, 9 months ago to wireguard

The funny things about really good software projects, that sometimes they are so good and complete already that there is no fuss around them, they just work and do the job done.

Mailing lists are quite, new commits are rare. Sometimes it can even feels that they are unmaintained or dead, but in fact they are more than alive.

https://notmuchmail.org/
https://www.passwordstore.org/
https://www.wireguard.com/

What other cool "almost complete" projects do you know?

#notmuch #pass #wireguard

abcdw, 8 months ago to guix

We develop rde on sourcehut, but there is a mirror on github and recently I realized that it has 185 stars already:
https://github.com/abcdw/rde

How many it is?

Do you know other small to medium sized projects, which only mirrors on github?

#guix #rde #lisp #scheme #guile

abcdw, 8 months ago to scheme

The best way to get all available stuff from textual port I found so far is:
(define (read-all-chars-as-string port)
(let loop ((chars '()))
(if (char-ready? port)
(loop (cons (read-char port) chars))
(reverse-list->string chars))))

#scheme #guile #lisp

abcdw, 25 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, 1 year ago to random

I can be your most boring blogger mate:
https://trop.in/blog/scheme-static-site-generators-review

#scheme #haunt #lisp #guile #racket

abcdw, 4 months ago to til

Today I learned: if the scp (utility for copying files over SSH) process was interrupted, you can resume the transfer of the file(s) with rsync!

Especially handy with low-bandwidth and unstable connection.

Experimenting with almost forgotten old good stuff can have its own perks!

#TIL #scp #ssh #rsync

abcdw, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to guix

Plan to stream about management of elixir projects with Guix in one hour and a half.

Will talk about transitive package management in general and why it's better not to package language-specific packages with Guix, will learn by example and clean up some tools we've made during the last month for Elixir in particular.

Hope the connection will be good (:

https://youtu.be/DWMvb9b_M8k
https://trop.in/stream

#guix #elixir #erlang #scheme #guile

abcdw, 1 month ago to guix

We have enough funds on RDE's opencollective, so we can setup a CI and substitute server and maybe some other infrastructure/project-related services in foreseable future.

Thank you very much everyone for help and support! <3

Let me know what else you miss.

https://opencollective.com/rde

#rde #guile #guix #emacs

abcdw, 15 days 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.