Andrew Tropin @abcdw@fosstodon.org

We announced "guix home: Call for Early Adopters".

`guix home` utilizes wonderful Guix package manager and provide an ability to manage your user's packages and configurations in a declarative and reproducible way.

If you already want to try `guix home`, consider yourself at least advanced GNU/Linux user and have some spare time. Open the link below, read the thread and join!)

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss/%3CCABrWRW2xCCbWSE3DAcWns01CmDyoGVAywL6dwyQoAENTrUZqhw%40mail.gmail.com%3E

Toot if you have any questions.

Boost, please!)

#guix #gnu #floss #foss #guixhome

A bit of Unix history, shell types, configuration files and startup process and my zsh config.

mpv https://youtu.be/mNJ-SlTbFc8

#bash #zsh #guixhome #guix #foss #floss

Talking about shells, rde and `guix home` next week.

Difference between login, interactive and non-interactive shell. Startup process and myriads of configuration files. All that will be covered next Tuesday)

In addition, we will talk about how to configure shells with `guix home` and what rde project is about.

Share the word and join the stream!

mpv https://youtu.be/mNJ-SlTbFc8

#foss #floss #bash #zsh #guix #rde

because I wanted to be sure that there are enough zsh users to make it a default option for rde.

https://sr.ht/~abcdw/rde/

P.S. rde is a configuration based on guix and guix home. You can think of it as a dotfiles repo, but a little more advanced.

@fcktheworld587 @sotolf Good reason, agree on that.

@redstarfish 🤘 Take a look at babashka if you interested in modern lispy shells.

@eliasr True, but according to the poll zsh a little more popular (the sample maybe unrepresentative).

As for me, I think Unix shells are cursed, but still required. Tried to live with bash for few months, but I prefer zsh cause of speed, auto-suggest and fancier completion and other capabilities.

In Emacs I use eshell.

Was asking this question because ...

Some nice zsh/bash tricks are over here.

https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2008/02/10-zsh-tricks-you-may-not-know.html

BTW, what shell do you prefer and why?

#zsh #shell #bash

Preparing last bits for the talk about state management with `guix home`. Stream will be live in 3 hours.

At the end of the stream will talk about the progress so far, future steps and when you can start using `guix home`.

https://youtu.be/ZaXHtSKKoeg

#gnu #guix #guixhome #stream

What problems in your research/work area are most important?

Working on state management utility for `guix home`.

In addition to configuration it will be possible to declare a state required for the application. After that it can be easily initialized for all the applications automatically.

Clone remote git repo, restore files from backup on fersh installation and so on.

Other state management capabilities like syncing or archiving can appear too.

Will be talking about it in more details on the stream next week.

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-devel/%3C87pmzze9nn.fsf%40trop.in%3E

#gnu #guix

#fediverse, what are good #peertube instances for uploading tech heavy talks?

+ reliable and responsive
+ tech/conf oriented
+ nice domain name
+ preferably supporting streaming

Nice addition to the topic of VCSes, development workflows and code review process.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180522180815/https://dpc.pw/blog/2017/08/youre-using-git-wrong/

Really suffered from github PR code review process and made suffer other people. How much more natural and covenient it is with email and your own text editor, mail client and other tools.

Integration of chats, bug trackers, review tools and other stuff is also interesting pain point from my experience. Wouldn't be cool to do all that stuff offline with just... mailbox and texteditor?

> Communities which still use mailing lists are usually the ones full of scary wizards who invent the world that the rest of us play in.

Very extensive article about pros and cons of mailing list driven development in comparison to GitHub-like services.

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-06-05-mailing-list-vs-github.html

My personal notes on the article:
https://github.com/abcdw/notes/blob/master/notes/20210316080728-mailing_lists_vs_github_like_tools.org

#foss #floss #mail #github #git #workflow #email

Continue the topic about problems of current Software and possible solutions.

Plan 9 seems like an interesting attempt to remove all the unnecessary complexity of Unix's legacy. It still uses a text and files as a basic building blocks, but overall looks more consistent, simple and composable, which is a step in the right direction I think. It's a good research project we can learn and benifit from.

https://youtu.be/6m3GuoaxRNM

#unix #plan9 #operatingsystems #computerscience

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity.

I'm not a security expert and don't guarantee the completness or quality, but this guide seems good to me and cover a lot of personal cyber security related questions.

https://anonymousplanet.org/

#security #cybersec #privacy #cybersecurity #encryption #anonymity