Guix OS install involves downloading the iso; setting it on a flash disk with: dd if=guix.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress; and using the graphical guide. Some quirks I got were:

• I needed an internet connection but wifi didn't work out of the box. I used USB tethering …

I moved to markdown in vimwiki but couldn't generate html. VimwikiAll2HTML only supported vimwiki syntax. I explored static site generators looking for one that:

• didn't require moving my files and folders.
• didn't need a lot of configuration to set up.

I tested out mkdocs, zola, docusaurus and vitepress and only …

Vimwiki supports markdown and I switched to this because:

• I didn't use the default syntax anywhere else.
• I could convert to html using only VimwikiAll2HTML.

Fixing My Config

Vimwiki expects some options set before it loads (ref). With lazy, I use init like:

{ 'vimwiki/vimwiki',
  branch = 'dev',
  dependencies = {'mattn/calendar-vim …

I couldn't read cells in sc-im because there was little contrast between the background and foreground colors. I temporarily fixed this by changing my terminal's color scheme, but I'd prefer to keep it. A permanent solution was to change sc-im's colors, for example:

color "type=INPUT fg=WHITE bg=BLACK …

My personal projects have poor developer experience. Any time I want to fix a bug or improve a service, I experience a lot of frustration.

For example, I wanted to upgrade the UI of my pomodoro script to have colors for completed and cancelled tasks, better prompts and mark the …

I installed guix with:

# Install nscd (name service cache daemon) to help pick up guix libs
sudo apt install nscd
sudo systemctl enable nscd

# install guix
# Ref: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html
cd /tmp
wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc …

I installed stack_static by downloading the binary from github and moving it to .local/bin. I was able to compile haskell programs, but running them failed with the error:

$ stack run
/home/rookie/projects/random/helloworld/.stack-work/install/x86_64-linux-tinfo6/48795ad824c5ab2c527b42cc08a43bf5cd587c042c536072710c2302b997bb41/9.2.5/bin …

Postgres was the database for my comic site but I chose to migrate to sqlite because it would:

• be easier to back up
• use less resources on my server
• be one less service to manage

I also don't get a lot of traffic so it wouldn't have an impact.

The …

Code reviews improve the health of a system while spreading ownership of code and knowledge. A good review process is fast and we can handle low hanging fruits by automating trivial checks (e.g. running unit tests, style choices) and choosing style guidelines. We can have high level discussions on …

I like firefox, and I've tweaked it to be ideal for me. The extensions I have are:

• Dark reader: I prefer dark themes, so this applies one to websites. This works great except for my bank's website, which I've excluded in the plugin.

• Tridactyl: provides vim keybindings. It's intuitive and …