Wilko

I love the stance #guix is hopefully taking on genAI with GCD 008: “Standing up for human crafting”:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-05/msg00164.html

kudos to @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr for writing this proposal!

#fosdem was pretty cool, especially this years declarative and minimal computing dev room (even if I missed the first few talks there!). already looking forward to the #guix days tomorrow

i think it's beautiful that every upgrade of a rust application has to include at least one ASCII art homage to an F-Zero vehicle* in its tree diff

• if anyone wants to take guesses which one is shown here -> https://mutecity.org/wiki/Machine

guess i'll dailydrive my heavily modified tinyrwm.c river hackery as my window manager now ... and I have to give kudos to the river project as it made hacking on wayland window managers approachable and fun for the past few months

I summarized my notes on what's already working/available in guix proper, what's missing and can/cannot be upstreamed, and what the general status of stuff required for running #guix system on the rk3588 mnt pocket reform is here: https://me.literatelisp.eu/guix-on-mnt-pocket-reform-whats-still-missing.html

TIL that Siemens has built a tiling X window manager called RTL in 1988 and the way tiling works in this is actually pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOxIUeroIVQ

i've been hacking on the tinyrwm.c example river provides for probably one or two months now and had that stupid idea to build a "tabbed mode" (what sway has at $mod+w) only window manager. It works surprisingly well, but will probably go back to the drawer of unfinished projects soon as I don't plan to maintain a river wm (or spend as much time with this experiment as I *actually* did)

spend parts of my weekend having fun hacking on my diff-drv utility to diff guixes ATerm files. Implemented BFS traversal (to show which exact paths differ) as well as a IoU index (to tell how similiar two .drv graphs are) so it's easier to figure out what changed between two builds regarding the inputs. I'll push it to https://codeberg.org/theesm/diff-drv tomorrow (after cleaning up the branch a bit and after having prettified the output so it's consistent to the rest of diff-drvs output).

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