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

Apr 14, 2025

Can Guix's G-expressions make for a superior Make-like build tool? Here's a proof-of-concept implementation imagining such a future.

Tags: software, guix, lisp, scheme

Mar 29, 2025

Printable Shavian dictionary of the 1650 most common English words to help you learn the script and start using it in your day-to-day life

Tags: software, shavian

May 21, 2024

Index the body of encrypted emails in notmuch for searching.

Tags: software

Feb 11, 2024

How do you use Guix on HPC when your friendly HPC admins are uncooperative? This is the ultimate solution.

Tags: guix, software

Feb 27, 2023

How to live hack a guile web server on the REPL

Tags: lisp, scheme, software

Jan 2, 2023

Deploy scripts using Guix G-expressions. Why? How?

Tags: lisp, scheme, guix, software

Dec 18, 2022

Finding the right place to rent in London using a Guile script. Who said Guile is not useful for practical stuff!

Tags: London, lisp, scheme, software

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

Nov 1, 2016

This is a graph I made for contributing to Wikipedia. It shows the energy of a black body as the sum of energies from oscillators with 1 photon, 2 photons, 3 photons, etc.

Tags: physics, gnuplot, software

Aug 30, 2016

A greasemonkey user script that removes the noscript mask on ebay and lets the user browse ebay without enabling javascript…

Tags: javascript, software, greasemonkey

Jul 27, 2016

An elegant bash one liner to generate a passphrase – shuf from coreutils is the secret ingredient.

Tags: software, bash

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