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Time travel without borders
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/time-travel-without-borders//
Published: May 12, 2026 15:00
When offered the option to run other people’s code, a prime
consideration is often ease of deployment. While much progress has been
made in support of rapid deployment, the security implications of those
quick deployments is often overlooked. In this…
Arguments parsing in Guile
https://fishinthecalculator.me/blog/arguments-parsing-in-guile.html
Published: May 5, 2026 23:50
While Guile Scheme has a lot of hidden gems, like (ice-9 peg), parsing command line arguments is not one of its strengths in my opinion. Even if there are many powerful approaches to structured argument parsing, there is no API simple enough for me to know…
A no-cost audio upgrade for my workstation
https://mit.teil.space/index.html#orgf186229
Published: May 5, 2026 11:38
How I did my part in saving the planet by getting an old but working
audio interface up, running and mainlined in GNU Guix. Read the whole
post here.
Guix at the French Reproducible Research Network conference
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2026/05/guix-at-the-french-reproducible-research-network-conference
Published: May 4, 2026 14:00
Guix will be featured at the annual conference of the French
Reproducible Research Network,
19–21 May 2026, Bordeaux, France.
Programming for the web with Guile Knots resource pools
https://www.cbaines.net//posts/guile_knots_resource_pools/
Published: April 26, 2026 09:01
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…
Using the substitute* procedure to alter Guix package source files
https://www.futurile.net/2026/04/18/guix-package-source-alterations-using-substitute
Published: April 18, 2026 19:19
Altering source files using the substitute procedure to search and replace text
Safsaf - A web framework for Guile
https://www.cbaines.net//posts/safsaf_a_guile_web_framework/
Published: April 14, 2026 09:09
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…
verteiler example project
https://mit.teil.space/index.html#org86bf83e
Published: April 9, 2026 23:01
/ver-teil-en/ [german]: to distribute, to spread, to deal out
ZimaBoard 2 Setup
https://www.cbaines.net//posts/zimaboard_2_setup/
Published: April 3, 2026 11:29
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…
Announcing Guile Knots
https://www.cbaines.net//posts/announcing_guile_knots/
Published: March 23, 2026 18:40
Guile Knots is a
library providing higher-level patterns and building blocks for
programming with Guile Fibers.