I'm a very curious person and whenever I discover new concepts I'm heavily driven to learn and understand how they work, sometimes quite like obsessions. That's actually what made me follow electrical engineering, trying to better understand what makes technology work how it works. The same applies to programming and I'm frequently fascinated to gather knowledge around tools, approaches and languages, specially to make computers do something I need or want. Buckle up and let me take you on my journey on the most recent subject of this obsession: the Lisp family of languages.

After trying out to move my workflows and systems to Guix, without major breakthroughs, I decided to take a different path and make a small stop on Nix. My end goal here is to be able to completely move my mindset, and obsolete years of Linux usage knowledge, so I can fully grasp these new system implementations that seem to be the future. But why did I change my path? Let's take a ride.

As I lean deeper in migrating my workflow to guix (as a package manager for now), I wanted to reach a configuration that fully deploys all my terminal development setup. When I start adding packages to my development profile I soon found the first obstacle: only neovim@0.9.5 was available on official repository, which was way behind the one I was using, making some configuration and plugins incompatible. So I set on defining my own build for neovim@0.10.4 and even neovim@0.11.0, which was release during this work.

It's official 🎉, this blog is now part of the SystemCrafters community webring, which is a mark of great importance to me. Not only because it makes it more real, adding the responsibility on myself of keeping it alive from now on, but also because it was added to the ring on its first anniversary, as the twentieth member. This event also deserved a better reading experience, so I'm deploying my own carefully crafted theme.

Aligning with the previous posts, what better way is there to build this blog that using guile scheme? Well, maybe a lot, but we're here for the fun in learning new approaches, so I'm committed to build this blog using haunt, an "hackable static site generator written in Guile Scheme".

From debian, it is possible to install the guix package manager from apt. This will install whatever version is present on the repositories. But after installation, a simple guix pull will update it to the latest version (although it can take some time to finish depending on the difference to the newest version)

So, it's finally happening. For quite some time now, I'm saying I should start a blog. The reason behind it is mainly to put out to the world the knowledge I'm gathering on my day to day projects. This will not only pass my learnings to anyone who finds this blog, but will also serve as a small knowledge base that I can get back anytime in the future to remember some topic.