Re: Welcome to Jorge Gomez (jgart) as a new Guix committer

2023-05-16 Thread Blake Shaw
Congratulations jgart! Glad to see you're plowing ahead :) "jgart" writes: >> I'd like to welcome Jorge as a new Guix committer! Jorge has been >> around for some time already, and is always very active around the Guix >> community; I'm sure they'll know to use their new privilege in a way >> th

Re: Can zig-build-system be an alternative to the gnu-build-system?

2023-02-02 Thread Blake Shaw
This has reminded me of Make's built-in support for guile[1]. I've assumed that the fact that we don't use it means that it probably depends on an earlier guile, as many projects many that support "guile scripting" typically depend on ~v1.8; but that is just an assumption. Does anyone know what

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-16 Thread Blake Shaw
+1 for (ice-9 base64) On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 02:04 Maxime Devos wrote: > > On 16-08-2022 19:21, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 9:59 AM Maxime Devos > wrote: > >> >> On 16-08-2022 18:10, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> In many projects I've been copyin

Re: Is Guix suitable for large monorepos?

2022-07-28 Thread Blake Shaw
Hiya guix, I tried to reply to this quickly while I was travelling, but what started with "sorry to brief" quickly became quite long -- nonetheless I think theres some important insight into using Guix effectively in production I'd still like to share, so will finish it off now that I'm back: ==

Re: [WIP Patch] Adding an FHS container to guix shell

2022-07-13 Thread Blake Shaw
hi John! I think it sounds like a swell addition to Guix, something that I would definitely reach for time to time. good stuff. ez, b On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 2:26 AM Dominic Martinez wrote: > > John Kehayias writes: > > > First, I wanted to ask how people feel about such a feature. Obviously

Wiki && Re: [feature request] merge sxml->html from (haunt html) into guile?

2022-06-28 Thread Blake Shaw
docs. Any thoughts? ez, b On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 20:26 Luis Felipe wrote: > Hi Blake, > > On Monday, June 27th, 2022 at 06:57, Blake Shaw > wrote: > > > Finally I caved and decided to look at the Bootstrappable source code, > and > > voila! (haunt html) provides

Re: Teams: first draft list

2022-06-22 Thread Blake Shaw
Hi y'all, This looks great, thanks for putting in the work! Im getting back into the Guile + Guix documentation, and realize its a subject the @whereiseveryone and others are also working on, and thus it could probably use a concentrated team of its own. What do others think? Best, Blake On We

Re: how to write services (was: Re: Teams)

2022-06-15 Thread Blake Shaw
I remember when I first encountered gexps I thought, as FLOs didn't seem to be files, they were either records or fluids. It took me a good while to realize a file-like object is usually just a file, haha On Thu, Jun 16, 2022, 05:28 Maxime Devos wrote: > Blake Shaw schreef op wo

Re: how to write services (was: Re: Teams)

2022-06-15 Thread Blake Shaw
I'm not on Mastodon but feel free to send your service my way for some help, I'm still a beginner but a second pair of eyes is always nice to have. ez, b --- Blake Shaw Director, SWEATSHOPPE sweatshoppe.org --- On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:04 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > caton...@gm

Re: Teams

2022-06-14 Thread Blake Shaw
I think I could join the Home team as well, at least for now, as I started using it a month ago and have been having a blast. I also have some home-services to upstream after a bit of polish (Guile EDSL for Herbstluftwm configuration if anyone is interested), and some plans to work on the documenta

Re: Teams

2022-06-13 Thread Blake Shaw
Hi folks, I'm just getting back to the list after finishing a gig, but want to raise my hand to join both the scheme team and perhaps something like an A/V team if folks think that would be a desirable team to put together. I think an A/V team would look after: #+begin_example scheme (gnu packag

Re: Cuirass and SQL

2022-05-28 Thread Blake Shaw
For any cuirass-curious readers, I want to say I deployed it on Linode a week ago and its been one of the most "just works" out-of-the-box tools in the guix arsenal that I've encountered. It was really easy and painless to get going, and makes "pinning" milestone system & profile generations a bree

Re: Arun Isaac Presentation on guix-forge this Saturday

2022-05-25 Thread Blake Shaw
Wow this is incredible, can't wait to hear about it! On Wed, May 25, 2022, 13:50 Pjotr Prins wrote: > Guix-forge aims to replace github and gitlab. I don't know how much > Arun will show, but I would like to note that under their guidance we > have replaced the github issue trackers, kanban boar

A corner case of broken reproducibility

2022-05-24 Thread Blake Shaw
Hiya Guix, I imagine many folks are aware of this outcome, but from a quick search of the archive I didnt find a discussion. I decided to create a new user for building the lighter profile to deploy in Singapore. Not knowing beyond the surface of how user profiles operate at the Linux level, I ch

Re: Test US mirror for bordeaux.guix.gnu.org and slow downloading of substitutes

2022-05-24 Thread Blake Shaw
blocking IPs in Singapore? Best, Blake --- Blake Shaw Director, SWEATSHOPPE sweatshoppe.org --- On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 5:52 AM Blake Shaw wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > > Here in Singapore download speed has gone from bad to worse over the > last two weeks, so bad that I was havin

Re: Test US mirror for bordeaux.guix.gnu.org and slow downloading of substitutes

2022-05-23 Thread Blake Shaw
chine atm but will wget stellarium and send the results when I am. Best, Blake --- Blake Shaw Director, SWEATSHOPPE sweatshoppe.org --- On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:09 PM Christopher Baines wrote: > > Hey! > > So the nar-herder came in to existence at the end of last year (2021) >

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux

2022-03-25 Thread Blake Shaw
Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > zimoun skribis: > >> About FSDG, the arguments are exactly the same as GNU Emacs on >> Windows. :-) No? I mean, GNU Emacs provides a full port on Windows and >> such port is available on the same side as other platforms on their >> website [1]. The rationa

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-05 Thread Blake Shaw
Hi Matt, Matt writes: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:44:18 -0500 Matt wrote > > > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:18:42 -0500 Matt wrote > > > > > > I've started working on the "Dreaming of better patch review". This is > great steno practice! > > I'm (finally) done! > > Ther

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-25 Thread Blake Shaw
Taylan Kammer writes: > The inclusion of 'sex' in the CoC would be to recognize the issues > faced by female-born people. As far as I'm aware, no female-born > person has taken part in the discussion at all, because none seem > to exist in the community. (What a coincidence.) Actually there a

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-25 Thread Blake Shaw
zimoun writes: My position remains unchanged: our codes of conduct should do everything possible to be as inclusive as and open to peoples of marginalized groups that are discriminated against. White cis men shouldn't be in charge of deciding whats best for these people. As far as I can see, no

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-23 Thread Blake Shaw
Oliver Propst writes: > On 2022-02-23 10:48, Andy Wingo wrote: >> On Tue 22 Feb 2022 18:16, Taylan Kammer >> writes: >> >>> If anyone's annoyed by this thread, please tell, and let us move it >>> off-list. >> I am annoyed by it I think it should be off-list :) > Me to :) Me as well, and I woul

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-20 Thread Blake Shaw
Liliana Marie Prikler writes: >> To me, this seems a rather contrived scenario though ... > In this "contrived" scenario Harold would still (intentionally or > otherwise) be discriminating Victor·ia over their gender by publicly > pointing out the disconnect between the two. In the daily experie

Re: Organising Guix Days

2021-12-29 Thread Blake Shaw
Hi folks, Regarding the presentation I'm putting together on the Guile Documentation, while I have enough material right now to send out a basic presentation that covers what I believe to be the dominant, glaring issues of the composition and organization of the docs as well as how I would go ab

Re: guix system reconfigure after more than a year

2021-12-29 Thread Blake Shaw
right on, i've had similar experiences where what was before dreaded eases into comfortable relief. great work everyone! -- “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

Re: Formalizing teams

2021-12-23 Thread Blake Shaw
Ludovic Courtès writes: > One idea that I like is to bring structure to the group, or rather to > make structure visible, so that newcomers know who they can talk to to > get started on a topic, know who to ping for reviews, and so that each > one of us can see where they fit. Rust has well-defi

Re: Guile documentation

2021-12-21 Thread Blake Shaw
is week and can send to the group. I'll be mostly focused on the general organizational structure of the docs and will offer solutions that if everyone agrees to I'll go ahead and start putting to work. Ez, Blake On Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 01:57 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Blake, > >

Re: Solstice infrastructure hackathon

2021-12-16 Thread Blake Shaw
This sounds great! I'm in, marking it off in my calendar :) -- “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2021-12-15 Thread Blake Shaw
Blake Shaw writes: Simon, just peeped your monad tutorial, and gotta say its one of the clearest presentations of the subject I've seen. Great work! >> I agree. For what it is worth, I tried once to quickly explain monad, >> with the aim of “Store Monad“ in mind, >> >

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2021-12-13 Thread Blake Shaw
Katherine Cox-Buday writes: Katherine, reading a big deeper into your user experience report, its really so so helpful to have this concrete sort of step-by-step user experience report. Would you mind if I solicit the list for more reports like this for anyone who might feel like offering them? A

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2021-12-13 Thread Blake Shaw
Katherine Cox-Buday writes: Katherine this is great material to chew on, much of which I can relate to! -- “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2021-12-13 Thread Blake Shaw
zimoun writes: Hi Simon, thanks for the input, > Hi, > > On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 05:40, Blake Shaw > wrote: > >> -- >> tldr: is there also room to discuss contributing -- and possibly >> doing a >> sizeable makeover to -- the *Guile* documentation? I

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2021-12-10 Thread Blake Shaw
Ryan Prior writes: > Absolutely. The Guile docs are unusable and make Guile a pain to work > with. I say this as an experienced lisp & scheme user with decades of > experience now in elisp, racket, and clojure. oh good, I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone! to be honest I don't think its *so* ba

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2021-12-10 Thread Blake Shaw
hiya guix, @cybersyn from IRC here, I recently contributed my first package, [notcurses] -- tldr: is there also room to discuss contributing -- and possibly doing a sizeable makeover to -- the *Guile* documentation? If so, I could give a short 5 - 10 minutes presentation of what I think should