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<2026-08-28 Fri> Quest for the eternal Dock - lambdock - How embedding a Lisp engine created an infinitely extensible program for your daily usage and workflow improvement, Guile Scheme + C + GTK4 built the dock Wayland was waiting for, after many failed prototypes and effort.

<2025-10-27 Mon> Increase the file descriptor count in GNU/Linux

<2025-03-04 Tue> Moving from Sway to Hyprland - Archived SwayFX config - After using Sway as my daily Wayland compositor for quite some time, I recently made the switch to Hyprland. The decision wasn't made lightly, as Sway, especially with the SwayFX fork, served me well.

<2025-02-17 Mon> Building Conky with Wayland Support on GNU Guix - Since I use GNU Guix and run a Wayland-based environment (Sway), I wanted to get Conky building with Wayland support.

<2025-02-04 Tue> Legendary Lisp Laptop - a modern Lisp machine with Framework laptop - A modern Lisp machine built on a Framework laptop.

<2024-12-09 Mon> Podman root-less setup on GNU Guix - By leveraging Podman, a daemonless container engine, we can achieve rootless containerization, enhancing security and flexibility with Guix.

<2023-11-02 Thu> Open VPN 3 on NixOS with Web-based SAML - Learn how to install and configure the OpenVPN 3 client on NixOS, in a reproducible way.

<2023-08-25 Fri> Create a Windows 11 bootable USB from GNU Linux - procedure for creating a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 11. The same process should also work with any HDD/SSD connected to your system.

<2023-08-18 Fri> Open VPN 3 on Void Linux - Learn how to build OpenVPN 3 from source code and install it on Void Linux, for SAML VPN auth.

<2021-12-21 Tue> Arch Linux UEFI + Encryption

<2021-12-21 Tue> GNU Guix VM aarch64 - The Guix ISO installer didn't work for me on aarch64. Making a qcow2 VM image or doing a manual install did work.

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<2024-12-03 Tue> How Guix enables multi-dimensional rollbacks and more reproducibility!