Notices by Andrew Tropin (abcdw@fosstodon.org), page 2

A bit of streaming today too! Guile IDE for Guix, preparations for Guix Social :)

https://youtu.be/1wmzqWMN6XI

#guile #guix

@untrusem @bookwar I found a cool functionality in discourse forum platform: they have a chat, which has a flow from chat messages to forum threads. You just select a conversation and turn it into thread with automatic links back to the chat.

Also, I found they have ActivityPub plugin and possibility to interact with the platform by email. So it potentially can bring all sub-communities in one place.

Just thinking out loud.

Paying taxes becoming more challenging. Previously it was just 2 input fields and it was in English. 😅

#taxes

I start patch review session in two hours. Join me and let's talk about RDE features, Package Propagation, Guix and Guile.

mpv https://youtu.be/PFUwgAFkR10

#scheme #guile #rde #guix #foss #libresoftware

@cnx @shom Yes, I did nothing, just plugged it in.

@shom obsbot meet 2. I fell in love with it because it looks sturdy and compact, turned out it has a very good image quality out of the box too.

I'm really satisfied with my new webcam and its quality. Excited like a child!

How about a stream tomorrow on how I review RDE contributions? Talks on Guix, Guile and Libre Software are included.

#scheme #guile #rde #guix #foss #libresoftware

ActivityPub for forums looks neat!

Federation between formus:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

Federation with mastodon, pleroma and friends:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/publishing-posts-to-mastodon/314609

#ActivityPub #Federation #discourse #fediverse

Today I realized that I'm afraid of RDE growing into something bigger. Can people stop contributing to and talking about the project, please? I feel anxious 🤫

@jgart's talk about RDE on 38C3: Illegal Instructions (2024):
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/heres-five-rde-features-i-like/

#rde #guile #scheme #guix

Privacy-conserned regular laptop user: covers a webcam with tape.

Privacy-conserned Linux Distro dev: not bothered enough to finish web camera driver.

A few months ago I was looking for a book about compiler construction, but for languages with thin syntax like lisp (so there a very little emphasis on grammars and parsing).

Where do you think I find today a few such books?
https://books.scheme.org/

#compilers #lisp #scheme

I started to prepare a talk for guix social. The title is "Arei/Ares: A modern, extensible IDE for Guile Scheme".

I have a preliminary plan on what things to cover and in which order, but if you already have any questions send them, please.

One question I already received is:
- Why nREPL protocol and not Slime's swank?

#guile #scheme #nrepl

Nicolas Graves (one of the core RDE contributors, PhD and just a cool dude) will be giving a talk about RDE on FOSDEM 2025 🥳

Our FOSS projects start getting momentum. I hope such occasions will make them even better.

P.S. I'm really curious to see RDE from his perspective.

#guix #rde #fosdem #fosdem2025 #foss

Today is my birthday. I did my morning routine, merged a couple patches, wrote a few emails, baked cookies 🍪 and now I guess is time to get some fun! :partyparrot:

Have a great weekend, everyone! See you in a bit.

The work we do last a few months utilizes Guile Hoot (Scheme compiled to WASM) and looks like this.

Is it most innovative technology stack ever used for genetics research?

#guile #scheme #hoot #lisp #wasm

🎉 RDE 0.6.0 released!

- New features (distrobox, podman, prolog, sourcehut, android ...)
- Updates for old ones (zsh, sway, mail, emacs, org-agenda ...)
- cloud-init implementation for Guix
- Transitive package management for Elixir
- and more.

RDE is a Lispy Emacs+Guix+Linux+Wayland distribution for development, research, and daily computing needs.

Try it out: http://files.trop.in/rde/
More info: https://trop.in/rde

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announce/%3C1366571992.12875.1732881988036@office.mailbox.org%3E

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

@dansup Hi! By a chance, do you have an idea, why in @PixelFed newlines are removed from the text after posting?

@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