Blog Posts

I am publishing this just so that I have a copy in case the original location goes offline.

GNU Guix currently provides two services to manage a firewall, iptables-service-type and nftables-service-type. However both of them take a full list of rules as a configuration, with no possibility to use the extension mechanism for later modifications.

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.

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

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.

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.

So I made a blog.