Ryan Prior

After the recent round of Guix security vulnerability disclosures introduced a regression in the unprivileged guix-daemon, I was left with a Guix installation that refused to download substitutes.

I set out with a simple goal: use Guix to install what I can for my Lua project, then let LuaRocks handle the rest, installing local dependencies into the .luarocks directory.

I've been having a repeated conversation lately, where somebody complains to me about YouTube and my internal response is "it doesn't have to be like that!"

During software development and maintenance we use an array of commands to build, test, deploy and release our software.

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M-x doctor I am the psychotherapist.

In middle school, I learned that one of the creators and frequent posters in an online technology forum I frequented also lived nearby.

“Yondergrove” (name has been changed; see below) is a fantasy roleplaying video game set amid great forests, lakes and rivers.

an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system ‑ the GNU Guix website a purely functional package manager, and associated free software distribution ‑ the Guix subreddit I find these descriptions uninspiring and wouldn't be so excited about Guix if…

The GNU Guix package ecosystem is growing rapidly, and given all of the amazing features Guix delivers, I always check Guix first to see if the software I want is available.

Earlier today I learned the dismaying news that one of my friends in Free software was shot by police with a less-than-lethal round and assaulted with chemical weapons.

The #elementary channel on Freenode got an interesting question today: How can one change the Suspend / Turn off screen settings to interval smaller than 5 minutes ie. turn off screen after 1 minute and suspend the laptop after 2 minutes when idle?

In the world of front-end JavaScript tooling, Svelte is one of the most exciting new options.

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It’s March 2020 and lately I’ve been looking forward to relaunching my website.