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New comment by rekado in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

rekado — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:09:46 +0000

I use a Guix manifest for every project, which describes what dev tools and dependencies I want. When I enter a directory the shell automatically evaluates the manifest and all my tools are ready.

With tooling for deployment I prefer to heed an adaptation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule. Neither Guix nor Nix are really all that "complex" from a user's perspective.

New comment by rekado in "A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'"

rekado — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:50:14 +0000

Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation

Chinese uses different symbols for punctuation and the comma in particular is surrounded by padding.

New comment by rekado in "Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions"

rekado — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:09:34 +0000

I'm using it on Guix via the Rosenthal channel: https://codeberg.org/hako/rosenthal.git

I quite like it because it's more predictable than automatic tiling window managers and generally less work than manual tilers. (I've used tilers since maybe 2010 with xmonad.)

New comment by rekado in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

rekado — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:13:37 +0000

I really dislike the cartoons, because they are carelessly generated images. On the first look they appear to be actual cartoons (you know, where details were deliberately placed to convey meaning), but the more you look the more confusing they get because it seems that most details here are accidental.

To me bad illustrations are worse than no illustrations. They also reflect poorly on the author, so I'm much less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, and probably end up dismissing their prose.

New comment by rekado in "The Future Is Niri"

rekado — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:42:10 +0000

It is documented here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Xwayland I use xwayland-satellite (for Emacs) and I can copy text in Emacs to a terminal running on Wayland.

New comment by rekado in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

rekado — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:40:55 +0000

In all those years working on and playing with free software, I still cannot understand the incessant need for badmouthing other projects and calling things "half-assed". What a destructive habit!

New comment by rekado in "Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales"

rekado — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:22:06 +0000

If you like this you may also be interested in Emmett Chapman's Offset Modal System:

https://www.stick.com/method/articles/offsetmodal/ https://www.stick.com/method/articles/parallel/

New comment by rekado in "Engineering Sleep"

rekado — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:56:14 +0000

Teenagers have to get up too early. Teenagers experience a shift in their circadian rhythm and also require more sleep than before puberty. School schedules do not account for this shift.

New comment by rekado in "PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc"

rekado — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:39:39 +0000

`guix pack` can create bundles that use a static proot to make them relocatable:

https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-...

It also supports other more performant ways, but in some situations proot is the best choice.

Guix/Hurd on a ThinkPad X60

rekado — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243313

Points: 61

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Guix Targeting the Cray/HPE Slingshot Interconnect

rekado — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:15:59 +0000

Article URL: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2024/11/targeting-the-crayhpe-slingshot-interconnect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198693

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rekado in "Bootstrap a Linux system from a 512 byte binary seed with 170 steps"

rekado — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:10:06 +0000

I think stating it this way gets the history backwards. The live bootstrap came about as a separate implementation of what had been done for Guix earlier. It then became a proving ground for new ideas, which then fed back into Guix.

New comment by rekado in "Ask HN: Pragmatic way to avoid supply chain attacks as a developer"

rekado — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:25:02 +0000

This may be of interest: https://programming-journal.org/2023/7/1/ "Building a Secure Software Supply Chain with GNU Guix"

New comment by rekado in "NixOS, Raspberry Pi and Me"

rekado — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:56:12 +0000

I'm using Guix System on my rockpro64. I patched uboot to allow it to boot via SATA. (One of the patches I needed was to ignore a spurious CPU reset while enumerating SATA devices.)

New comment by rekado in "SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant"

rekado — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:28:04 +0000

Identity in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(philosophy)

Humans already have ways to build software on macos, so why bother doing it with something called "Guix" if the thing that we would necessarily --- and for technical reasons --- end up with bears little resemblance to Guix? If someone sees value in that, enough to warrant converting resources to realize this value, they are welcome to do just that.

Note that we also have a way of using Guix as it is on macos via virtualization of Guix System. It also sits atop a large binary blob (the size of the native bits of the qemu closure), just like a macos-native bootstrap of the roots of the Guix graph does.

New comment by rekado in "SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant"

rekado — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:44:24 +0000

Clearly we do not have a shared understanding of identity.

New comment by rekado in "SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant"

rekado — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:56:20 +0000

What is the real reason then? Please enlighten me, because I have been blocked by these technical issues in my past attempts to bring Guix to macOS. Guix is built around glibc and there is no glibc port for macOS. Using XCode for everything is like replacing a bicycle drive train with a steam engine; I guess it's still a vehicle of some sort, but Theseus is still unhappy with his new ship.

You can use Guix on macOS with https://superkamiguru.org/projects/msg.html, but it's probably not what people want when they ask for macOS support.

New comment by rekado in "SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant"

rekado — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:48:06 +0000

Guix has the nonguix channel, which provides the vanilla Linux kernel and other packages that contain blobs or nonfree parts: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/

New comment by rekado in "The Pre-Scheme Restoration"

rekado — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:18:08 +0000

It's part of Guix. It starts here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

New comment by rekado in "The Pre-Scheme Restoration"

rekado — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:57:46 +0000

The technical details of the quote are correct, but FWIW I'm no longer working on the GHC bootstrap. It's fun for a while but the lack of interest in the Haskell community and the general high level of ridicule and hostility from the rest of the software world towards all things GNU / free software / bootstrapping have kinda turned me off the whole computer thing.