On the internet, anyone can make a request to your web service. Especially in this time of abusive web crawling linked to AI/LLM companies, it's essential to program in a defensive style and stay in control, even when faced with a volume of requests that can't be handled.
Altering source files using the substitute procedure to search and replace text
Over the past week or two I've been working on a new web framework for Guile. This is based on the knowledge I've accumulated over the past 7 years working on things like the Guix Data Service, Guix Build Coordinator and Nar Herder, but also based on their code, as I've used Claude Code running Claude Opus 4.6 to build this (a large language model).
/ver-teil-en/ [german]: to distribute, to spread, to deal out
I've got a new homeserver/NAS (Network Attached Storage), previously I was using some Raspberry Pis, but I've wanted for a while a low power board that has SATA ports for attaching hard drives and one that could run GNU Guix, and the ZimaBoard 2 looked like it might be a good option.
Guile Knots is a library providing higher-level patterns and building blocks for programming with Guile Fibers.
I have an old Intel macbook 12 of begin 2016, one of the so-called "Retina Macbooks". It is an ideal couch device but far too slow to run modern OS-X, provided you wanted to run that to begin with.
I always spend too much time setting up a new project and thinking how to structure it. I decided to summuraize my experience, to enhance it with a small research and to write down my thoughts on the topic. So I can come back to it myself or reference in the discussion.
Fifteen months have passed since our last Guix/Hurd on a Thinkpad X60 post and a lot has happened with respect to the Hurd.
Fifteen months have passed since our last Guix/Hurd on a Thinkpad X60 post and a lot has happened with respect to the Hurd . And most of you will have guessed, unless you skipped the title of this post, the rumored x86_64 support has landed in Guix! Here is a not-so-short overview of our Hurd work over the past 1.5 years: The build daemon fails when invoking guix authenticate on the Hurd bug was fixed. This was our most pressing problem as it meant that we could not keep…