2026-10-28T21:50:07Z https://nostr.now Andrew Tropin https://nostr.now/npub109eqdt7yn6rc5ylm3rn4u6zcjlcgn6z3l5xkcy2mjqyrfa3x2mcqx5suq0 https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/000/110/000/original/c6a8ed24127361a4.jpg https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/000/110/000/original/c6a8ed24127361a4.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgv6nvjykvw3qwly5ngaz4nks23w0yweqxmynjhn506k6d4fm9tfszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qkdzjpv SRFI 269: Portable Test Definitions is finalized. <br/><br/>Yeah, it&#39;s final! It won&#39;t change anymore! :)<br/><br/>1.5 years of work, dozens of interviews and talks, hundreds commits, thousands of words and LOCs.<br/> <br/>Now people can start adapting it. In the meantime, we will post articles, make stream and videos.<br/><br/><a href="https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-269/">https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-269/</a><br/><br/>The most suitable implementation is `suitbl`, of course. <br/><br/><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs/tree/master/item/src/guile/ares/suitbl">https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs/tree/master/item/src/guile/ares/suitbl</a> <br/><br/>My deepest gratitude to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1n8y64vc26phwqu2ey5uztdrz9qusdlu06qdpk5tukgdlsdj0gu8sl3l96n" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>NLnet</span> (<span class="italic">npub1n8y…l96n</span>)</a></span> and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1dk0yumc78t4z3rdxuqw5swz96qp3u93ala23awmyaqkc8qghm65spnk0wd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>NGI Zero open source funding</span> (<span class="italic">npub1dk0…k0wd</span>)</a></span> for funding this work! 🫶 <br/><br/>#guile #scheme #lisp 2026-10-01T13:23:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg3atqay6f0rz76704c3m05phfqpfdeg6jvttaed6dpkeqd6q405czypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qdacg6a It turns out that running above 3000m is a bit harder. I don&#39;t know why. Is it uneven surface? Something else? <br/><br/>#mountains #climbing #hammock #nature #hiking #running<br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/117/273/200/552/069/033/original/c56a1a20825b854d.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/117/273/205/417/362/263/original/3895fb912d6b018f.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/117/273/246/032/559/135/original/08ed2b2d9f7cbcb2.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/117/273/247/630/094/180/original/ece9490bb5334599.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-09-15T04:57:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0yqxxuxz73lhtupr60wxlnz5ddlju7vtgxd8mngd6927d6ampmcszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qkaym9q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyw6haplm36a6kemuqwsng9lq3p7t9tcc4wcw3ahj7z5euxwcax4cfft52v'>nevent1q…t52v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you!) It goes awesome as well so far! :) 2026-08-22T14:35:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvytxrdtgg9cwgsjhws0qn6fxf878lqdcmenxmfmyw6qcvwh667cszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qkey49x Moving again to another country. Finally leaving the city to enjoy the forests and mountains.<br/><br/>There are some benifits of being minimalistic and ultralight. All the stuff I carry with me across the globe is on the picture.<br/><br/>Bet you can&#39;t pack all your life into 50 litres backpack :P<br/><br/>#travel #backpacking #moving<br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/117/138/379/848/692/492/original/3890bce3623bb12d.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-08-22T09:26:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyj7qk7927e7qkh3xwagl0kx7n4yt8ja34zwamkf9xfmadpws0jzszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q85kmw8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0hszqdjf2pqwrs7nv6vg905sqpdmtqhlywumezgdfvaajnqzyqqqxqu2fv'>nevent1q…u2fv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So far it&#39;s extremely expensive tech (in all senses, money, energy, data corpora, hardware). I don&#39;t have any clear idea on how to do it in any foreseeable future. 2026-08-10T09:15:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2an3wc4430g6atxd06ns4xed956errsantky8m68lp885vgxrmzszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qsxttny I have quite extensive LLMs usage experience. What I can tell so far: They are:<br/>- very productive and capable.<br/>- extremely knowledgeable.<br/>- dumb as fuck.<br/><br/>It would be a great tool if organizations making them didn&#39;t try to mimic the intelligence and were a bit more conscious about ethics.<br/><br/>Artificially added nondeterminism is what makes them look intelligent and thus so appealing for a wide audience and investors. <br/><br/>At the same time, it&#39;s what makes them so much worse tool for the actual work. 2026-08-10T08:11:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz5826kwu4fddx8n29q2qe7nqcdlgf8hd34d2t47fzxehagam389qzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q6s2wfy Yesterday, during a social ride, I talked with a guy who was working in Borland back in the days (~30 years ago). He mentioned that Open Source killed a lot of software business at that time.<br/><br/>Our talk reminded me that often it&#39;s better to pay for Free and Open Source Software despite it being free (as in a free beer).<br/><br/><a href="https://trop.in/blog/pay-for-software-that-respects-you">https://trop.in/blog/pay-for-software-that-respects-you</a><br/><br/>#foss #floss #opensource #linux #grapheneos #fdroid #mastodon<br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/989/743/098/816/580/original/46723ba15d06fc6b.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-07-27T03:20:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqu8w6awytp4a7chav3mhl08n8d55g3k7j80c98pggx9t6c3w3l5qzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q3mas5e Reflection on REPL, nREPL, ad-hoc protocols on top of tcp REPLs in the context of editors/IDE/programmatic tooling, what better suites them and stands the test of time. <br/><br/><a href="https://batsov.com/articles/2026/05/20/nrepl-forever/">https://batsov.com/articles/2026/05/20/nrepl-forever/</a><br/><br/>#clojure #lisp #scheme #repl #nrepl 2026-06-05T02:56:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvtyufrpjamz82nux92qg47z0s9qlzqcpkrjyr5ej5cawxmfgp9wszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q4k7ur2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstn2c2zg8y6vv2qaff6evrk9pu027vhje09djs79uvphv7vuwkq9smg59u7'>nevent1q…59u7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve opened<br/><a href="https://vim-jp.org/vimdoc-en/filetype.html">https://vim-jp.org/vimdoc-en/filetype.html</a> and got hard flash backs. <br/><br/>It looks exceptionally cool and nostalgic, but when I scrolled to VimL listings I almost got an anxiety attack. 2026-03-01T13:10:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstn2c2zg8y6vv2qaff6evrk9pu027vhje09djs79uvphv7vuwkq9szypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q80vg2g One of the reasons I don&#39;t like &#34;Plain Text&#34; is that you have to do this fucking trickery to get any useful syntax tree out of it:<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.pulsar-edit.dev/posts/20231110-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-5/#markdown-and-front-matter">https://blog.pulsar-edit.dev/posts/20231110-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-5/#markdown-and-front-matter</a><br/><br/>or just™ use regexp and get it working 60% of the time (e.g. as most language modes do in #emacs, or filetype&#39;s -syntax were in #vim).<br/><br/>P.S. Parsing with grammars (+nested grammars injections) is much more reliable than regexps, but still have a number of edge cases, where it fails. 2026-03-01T13:04:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd2ljnh2jt5zh4l0w7d2tlz5kypwayd45pyjfhzp6324gg3fs8hvgzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qzjz2xe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8hmzshvq5fswp3kct3hz6yp4cllm6d8kl7mnupeyxxhuarssqv8q69ve75'>nevent1q…ve75</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Internet thinks we need good associative data structures and sane pattern matching for them :) 2026-01-24T13:18:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvem8y8seqdclw37kqxedpxqd0y0ufu3fxg5nqjhfjuguc2futn8gzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qjrj09g Cooking is where reproducibility crisis really shines. Have you ever tried to cook the same dish in the other country? or a couple years later after your previous try? or both &gt;&lt;?<br/><br/>Where is my guix cook? 2025-11-26T09:02:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9qdeyjlavqem8j6pwgvdk6ppv2phdkdw8n6pnaa2wm8erkmjwzcszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qzst4vl Imagine I have a couple VPNs+NAT and a few socks proxies (ssh tunnel, shadowsocks, vless, etc). Can you suggest a good way to monitor the &#34;connection quality&#34; of each of them? (on my local machine)<br/><br/>I want to easily see, which are degraded (usually due to ISP/gov doing DPI and blocking related traffic) and which are nice and healthy.<br/><br/>Cc: <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fnejmanw24sxweer9t5ncla5v5ekdf6mvtwnjmkm7em6vxjnxf6swp87ll" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Daniel Lakeland</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fne…87ll</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>#proxy #i2p #tor #freedom #network #networking #socks #dpi #wireguard #vless #shadowsocks #AskFedi #AskLemmy 2025-09-08T05:49:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgj8c6g5p6pw7g9et2c0eely55hr8vpy2xefymrxfdt7kpx54pdcqzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0quhcnh4 I found simple, non-intrusive, and surprisingly powerful tool for web analytics. And it&#39;s also looks very neat.<br/><br/><a href="https://trop.in/blog/no-js-no-bs-ethical-web-analytics">https://trop.in/blog/no-js-no-bs-ethical-web-analytics</a> 2025-06-01T08:12:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgzalmdqndvq5sjapllysnhml87g9wnrmsyev7ndsfrvrh0r7xgwqzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qjrf03d This e-ink gadget is sexy:<br/><br/><a href="https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papers3-esp32s3-development-kit">https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papers3-esp32s3-development-kit</a><br/><br/>#eink #ebook #esp32 2025-04-10T04:45:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswt8zx662jjfc9ap0xel6zyfhw4ejh2jyh0xd2kvgyn3944wj3hngzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qu9cxaf Do you remember that Guix Social is tomorrow (January 16)?<br/><br/>Guess who is giving a talk on modern and extensible Guile IDE? :)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/">https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/</a><br/><a href="https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup">https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup</a><br/><br/>#guile #guix #scheme #lisp 2025-01-15T14:23:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy2xgg725mrw6eheqrpkdndrf44psdkt5tknmlpuzpref9hcsrfnczypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q24knep Privacy-conserned regular laptop user: covers a webcam with tape.<br/><br/>Privacy-conserned Linux Distro dev: not bothered enough to finish web camera driver. 2024-12-27T06:50:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyjt0sphp0jjznmpjhshmn6v0lr5wnzmd083c43gm5mnsf4pfcghczypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qgdck5e I had a lot of talks recently with Guile hackers, explorers and<br/>educators on the cons and pros of Guile.<br/><br/>One particular issue is a lack of common language idioms and best<br/>practicies. The zoo of SRFIs and ICE-9s, 3 implementation of<br/>exceptions, 3 of records and a bunch more.<br/><br/>On possible solution is a style guide, which contains idioms, best<br/>practices for writing Guile. We can start simple as<br/><a href="https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide">https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide</a> and grow it into<br/>something like <a href="https://practical.li/clojure/testing/unit-testing/">https://practical.li/clojure/testing/unit-testing/</a>.<br/><br/>WDYT?<br/><br/>#guile #lisp 2024-08-30T16:06:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg5wln6jcn6g790327ktvfvvd8t4ev9udcxm9muk9q4xycqwrvpgszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0q62u79t Which hand do you use to tap space while typing?<br/><br/>#keyboard #layout #ergonomics 2024-08-21T09:20:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst8mvkgqq9s0kc9ggh5c6hkxc974956cu73tcnyd89du52ngnkaeszypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qswps7r Have anybody tried Zed editor? What is your experience?<br/><br/>At first glance it looks really nice. Slim, performant, no legacy, tree-sitter first (no more regexp hell, hacks and bugs).<br/><br/>WebAssembly for extensions, which means you can write them in whatever compiles to wasm, including guile-hoot scheme.<br/><br/>#wasm #vim #emacs #scheme #lisp #zed #vscode 2024-08-18T09:57:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswh5kq7ft5hhhm0n6mkjmxqm80ql4r600jknlvyyeaupfj9ry7mrgzypuhyp40cj0g0zsnlwywwhngtztlpz0g287s6mq3twgqsd8kyet0qrugjnq Magit is the tool that makes me fire dozens of commits weekly without getting in the way or triggering RSI.<br/><br/>Rebasing, branch and worktree management, amends, fixups and all other important functionality is 3-4 presses away.<br/><br/><a href="https://emacsair.me/2024/08/09/magit-4.0/">https://emacsair.me/2024/08/09/magit-4.0/</a><br/><br/>Good work <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ghj9galhz2k3t24kuxjn9etqujgqcuz7qpvdzuypts6gck3fhkxqh56ajz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jonas Bernoulli</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ghj…6ajz</span>)</a></span>, keep rocking.<br/><br/>Support magit project financially or by spreading the word, especially if you benifit from it financially or it saves your precious time.<br/><br/>#emacs #magit #git #foss #floss #funding 2024-08-11T04:24:30Z