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Indexing encrypted emails in notmuch

May 21, 2024

Index the body of encrypted emails in notmuch for searching.

Tags: software

Using Guix despite uncooperative HPC admins—the ultimate solution

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

Live hacking a guile web server

Feb 27, 2023

How to live hack a guile web server on the REPL

Tags: lisp, scheme, software

Deploy scripts using G-expressions

Jan 2, 2023

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

Tags: lisp, scheme, guix, software

Renting in London with Guile

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

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

Black body energy as a sum of photon oscillator energies

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

User script to remove noscript mask on ebay

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

Elegant bash one liner to generate passphrase

Jul 27, 2016

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

Tags: software, bash

A simple passphrase generator in bash

Jul 20, 2016

Yet another passphrase generator, this time one in bash…

Tags: project, software, bash

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day bot for GNU Social

Jun 11, 2016

A bash script, run periodically by a cron job, to post the day's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day to GNU Social. The script uses GNU Social's Twitter compatible API to publish notices.

Tags: gnusocial, astronomy, project, software, bash

fold and stream-fold pass arguments to proc in different orders

Mar 24, 2016

SRFI-1 fold and SRFI-41 stream-fold pass arguments to proc in different orders. Violating the principle of least astonishment, this comes as a rather inconvenient surprise to the programmer.

Tags: lisp, scheme, functionalprogramming, software

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