Blog Posts

Using GNU Shepherd timers as crons

With the release 1.0.0 of GNU Shepherd, there now is new timer service available. Since the intention seems to be replacing mcron with timer services, let us take a look at how I went about it in my configuration.

2025-01-26

What goes into Guix-shaped hole?

Did you ever try to customize system-wide Guix? I tried. It did not go well.

2024-09-04

State of SRFI-64

I recently started collection of various utilities and procedures named guile-wolfsden, in the spirit of guile-lib. And, being the good little programmer I am, I wanted to write some tests. Guile already bundles implementation of SRFI-64, great! I might as well not reinvent the wheel and just use it.

2024-08-08

Disabling the Office Key

Did you know that some keyboards have a dedicated Office Key mapped to C-M-S-s? Really. It opens Office (either the app or the website) and there is no way to disable it. But I found a way. It is pretty retarded.

2024-05-22

Hello, World!

So I made a blog.

2024-05-01