Ekaitz Zarraga talks about the mission to achieve a full source bootstrap of the RISC-V architecture on Guix Linux. He introduces RISC-V and what makes it different. Discusses the importance of a full source bootstrap for security and trust in computing. Then talks through the multi-year mission to make it a reality on Guix.
Andrew Tropin (https://trop.in) introduces Emacs-Arei a modern, extensible IDE for Guile Scheme. Using the Nrepl protocol foundation of Guile Ares-rs, it provides a highly interactive developer experience for programming Guile or Guix.
If you've ever struggled with Rust packaging, here's some good news! We have changed to a simplified Rust packaging model that is easier to automate and allows for modification, replacement and deletion of dependencies at the same time. The new model will significantly reduce our Rust packaging time and will help us to improve both package availability and quality. Those changes are currently on the rust-team branch, slated to be merged in the coming weeks. How good is the news? Migration of our current Rust package collection, 150+ applications with 3600+ dependency libraries, only took two…
Using Mailutil's Sieve to filter email
Recording (edited) of the Guix London Meetup chat with Ludovic Courtès. Ludo is a long-term #FreeSoftware hacker, interested in #lisp, #scheme and #guile. He is excited by the #nix deployment model, and created #guix.
Bonfire is a new framework to build federated applications that just reached RC1. It is written in Elixir, a nice functional language, and allows communities to create custom flavored Fediverse applications, that can be tailored for their specific needs. I have been in touch with the core team and I'm trying to make the experience of running Bonfire on Guix as smooth as possible.
How fast is GNU Mes’ scheme interpreter really?
I had two goals: to count AI crawlers DDoSing my nginx infrastructure and to see if anybody reads at least one of my three posts in the blog. To achieve both, I needed to gather data and transform it into meaningful insights, so basically I needed web analytics.
Using Goimapnotify for new email automation
Multiple Accounts and colours in Neomutt