software
Complex end-to-end tests using Guix G-expressions
Sep 10, 2025
Complex end-to-end tests in development repositories involving packages written in several languages are a chore to describe and maintain. Often, the only recourse is to pull in pre-built binaries or haul around heavy Docker images. Could there be a better way? Could it be Guix (spoiler alert: yes!)?
Propagator networks very briefly
Jun 30, 2025
Propagator networks are a novel way to express computation that allow us to escape the expression-orientedness of traditional programming languages. This is a quick primer that introduces the concept very briefly.
Tags: software, propagator networks
Announcing exiftool.el
Mar 2, 2017
This is to announce the release of exiftool.el, an emacs lisp wrapper around ExifTool. ExifTool is a command line application supporting reading and writing metadata in various formats including EXIF, XMP and IPTC.
Tags: software, project, freesoftware