Planet Guix

Bonfire & Guix, a love story

Bonfire is a new framework to build federated applications that just reached RC1. It is written in Elixir, a nice functional language, and allows communities to create custom flavored Fediverse applications, that can be tailored for their specific needs. I have been in touch with the core team and I'm trying to make the experience of running Bonfire on Guix as smooth as possible.

No JS, No BS Ethical Web Analytics

I had two goals: to count AI crawlers DDoSing my nginx infrastructure and to see if anybody reads at least one of my three posts in the blog. To achieve both, I needed to gather data and transform it into meaningful insights, so basically I needed web analytics.

Migrating to Codeberg

The Guix project will be migrating all its repositories along with bug tracking and patch tracking to Codeberg within a month. This decision is the result of a collective consensus-building process that lasted several months. This post shows the upcoming milestones in that migration and discusses what it will change for people using Guix and for contributors. Context For those who haven’t heard about it, Codeberg is a source code collaboration platform. It is run by Codeberg e.V. , a non-profit registered in Germany. The software behind Codeberg is Forgejo , a free…