Notices by Andrew Tropin (abcdw@fosstodon.org)

@AngryAnt @khronos @codemonkeymike
AFAIR, Guix where never "switiching langugage" it was written from the beginning in Guile Scheme. However, the build daemon is a fork of nix build daemon indeed. There is a project for writing bug-for-bug compatible build daemon in Guile, but it's very much WIP.

@taylan Do you have a full story somewhere?

One of the things with mailing list driven workflow (in Guix and RDE) bothering me is that I can't review and merge patches without downloading emails, applying patches locally, signing them and pushing them to repo.

However, for most version bumps and other trivial changes it must be much more convinient, just one button click away. If it was so, it would be much less stale and forgotten patches I guess.

Most of git forges do much better job here.

#guix #git #rde

Today I converted almost a hundred transactions from bank statement to plain text ledger format using LLM in a few dozens of minutes and it made only two minor mistakes.

If I do it manually it would take a couple hours at least and whole a lot more of my energy.

Despite the all criticism it's a quite powerful tool for some categories of tasks.

I'm looking forward for more energy-efficient, FOSSy and local/self-hosted implementations.

#llm #llms #llama #ChatGPT #Claude

🗞️ How about October issue of RDE Monthly?

The best monthly newsletter about Guix, Guile and RDE ecosystems.

Events, Releases, Announces, Articles and Videos, everything from the last month collected in one place.

Brought to you by Kirill Yermak and community.

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-monthly/%3C1508178682.101767.1730657300206@office.mailbox.org%3E

#rde #guix #guile #scheme #lisp #Newsletter

@cnx This is a good one :)

A bit of #math today.

🗞️ The September issue of RDE Monthly is out!

The best monthly newsletter about Guix, Guile and RDE ecosystems.

Brought to you by Kirill Yermak and community.

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-monthly/%3C250419570.99760.1727873737363@office.mailbox.org%3E

Events, Releases, Announces, Articles and Videos, everything from the last month collected in one place.

Contribute to the next issue:
https://todo.sr.ht/~abcdw/tickets/66

Stay informed, stay engaged!

Don't take contributions for granted, don't take reviews and maintanance for granted. Thank people, acknowledge their hard work, time and effort.

#foss #floss #OpenSource

I had a lot of talks recently with Guile hackers, explorers and
educators on the cons and pros of Guile.

One particular issue is a lack of common language idioms and best
practicies. The zoo of SRFIs and ICE-9s, 3 implementation of
exceptions, 3 of records and a bunch more.

On possible solution is a style guide, which contains idioms, best
practices for writing Guile. We can start simple as
https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide and grow it into
something like https://practical.li/clojure/testing/unit-testing/.

WDYT?

#guile #lisp

Magit is the tool that makes me fire dozens of commits weekly without getting in the way or triggering RSI.

Rebasing, branch and worktree management, amends, fixups and all other important functionality is 3-4 presses away.

https://emacsair.me/2024/08/09/magit-4.0/

Good work @tarsius, keep rocking.

Support magit project financially or by spreading the word, especially if you benifit from it financially or it saves your precious time.

#emacs #magit #git #foss #floss #funding

Did you know that there is a new substitute and CI server for Guix?

TLDR: North American based Guix Substitute Server, https://cuirass.genenetwork.org
brought by @rekahsoft, Arun Isaac and @pjotrprins

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-07/msg00033.html

#guix

Share your cool xmpp group chats with me, please!

I want to try out xmpp ecosystem.

#xmpp #jabber

I need a help with designing LDAP schema for community infrastructure project.

Are there any expirienced LDAP administrators over here? Preferably with 389ds experience.

I want to have a quick talk, but would really appreciate links to good documentation/courses/videos too.

#ldap #openldap #keycloak #389directoryserver #389ds #admin #SysAdmin #DevOps #administrator #suse #fedora #redhat

Today we published the first issue of RDE Monthly Newsletter!

Interesting news and links related to Guix, Guile, RDE and Scheme delivered to your inbox or RSS reader.

Huge kudos to Kirill Yermak for preparing materials.

Please enjoy and share!

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-monthly/%3C87h6ed2nf5.fsf@trop.in%3E

#newsletter #guix #guile #rde #scheme #lisp #email #rss

Telling about dynamic/lexical scope in Scheme, fluids, parameters, dynamic-state's and their life in multi-threaded environment in 9 minutes.

Let me know what other questions about Scheme you have.

https://youtu.be/KSVeaXQ7aXo

#scheme #guile #lisp #racket

One of the most useful extensions for Firefox (actually LibreWolf) is Sidebery. Finally I can decrease a mess of tabs and make them structured.

There are a lot of features, but most useful are:
- Rules for automatically moving tabs into "panels" (a grouping mechanism similiar to workspaces).
- Foldeable tree view.
- Rules for openning tabs in specific containers (combines well with container proxy and multi-account).
- Integration with bookmarks.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery

#Firefox #LibreWolf

EmacsConf 2023 Stickers came to my forest 🥳

Luckily enough, because today is my last day here (in this climbing season), going to Georgia now.

#emacs #emacsconf #stickers #gnu #linux

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

I got a reject on Turkey residence permit application. I'll lodge an appeal, but chances are very low, so my plan B is to go to Georgia than to Armenia to apply for Spain Schengen visa.

If somebody knows any conferences, summer schools or other events I can contribute to and get an invite to support my visa application with, let me know, please.

P.S. Spain Schengen in Armenia is an only option to apply for Schengen visa available without residence permit I know at the moment.