OSS
A couple of things going on here this week:
nixpkgs
ghc-vis
- I decided I shouldn’t spend any more time trying to completely bootstrap
ghc-visbecause it’s obviously a tricky situation, just disabling library profiling was fixing the build so I created a PR doing that. I also asked for suggestions and got some good ones so I’ll try to get back to this sometime soon.
svgcairo
- It turned out the fix I patched
svgcairowith wasn’t working on darwin so got pinged about that. Apparently the patch deleted a flag fromcpp-optionsthat was needed on darwin so added it back with a conditional, also got asked to upstream the changes so I did that along with the fix bumping the lower bound onlibrsvg.
eventlog2html
- I finally got to use eventlog2html at work on Friday, realizing the package was broken on darwin I thought I’d see what’s wrong but it seemed to work just fine. I also tried on my PC once I got off work and nothing jumped out at me so I created a PR unmarking the package as broken.
Miscellaneous
hs-nix-template
- I fixed a Github actions issue here.
type-errors-pretty
- I got back to this tiny feature request on type-errors-pretty.
Hobbies
Like I said the last time I had problems with the solder I had so I got a new one which seemed to help. I got two new chisel tips as well, one sized 1.2mm and the other 2.4mm; and they work great! Now that I got all my gear ready I’m hoping I’ll be starting a keyboard build pretty soon.
Books
We’re done with Convenience Store Woman. This was also pretty good, it starts as one thing and towards the middle takes a turn. It could also work just as this cutesy story about a woman working at a convenience store but how the book evolved towards the end makes this a memorable read.
Our next book is: Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel