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Ludovic Courtès |
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03/06: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Capitalize proper nouns. |
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Sun, 17 Apr 2022 17:36:53 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix-artwork.
commit 7f7fa8a4be9f3eaca42958d813a95bbee45b6af4
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 17 23:17:11 2022 +0200
website: 10y-birthday-stories: Capitalize proper nouns.
* website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md: Capitalize proper nouns.
---
website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
b/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
index d07e2c6..983e7df 100644
--- a/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
+++ b/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
@@ -245,19 +245,19 @@ having its 0.8.3 (or so) release and it looked like
something that I
could try to contribute to. I certainly made a number of mistakes in the
beginning; I didn't know that 'git revert' was an actual command and I
tried to revert a commit by hand, leaving a dangling parenthesis and
-breaking the repo. Another time I added java as a dependency to an image
+breaking the repo. Another time I added Java as a dependency to an image
library and broke the graphics stack for half the architectures until I
reverted that! I even had a stint as a failed GSoC student. I was
-working on bournish, a gash/gash-utils like utility to make debugging in
+working on bournish, a Gash/Gash-utils like utility to make debugging in
the early boot process far easier by providing common CLI utilities. I
had some issues with time management and ended up spending more time
than I should have updating packages in the repository, as a result I
-didn't spend enough time working on bournish and it's languished since
+didn't spend enough time working on Bournish and it's languished since
then.
Currently I enjoy working on troublesome packages and expanding the
number of packages available on non-popular architectures. Sometimes
-it's removing compiler flags or 'ifdef gating' architecture-specific
+it's removing compiler flags or ‘ifdef gating’ architecture-specific
includes and other times certain parts of programs need to be disabled.
Then everything needs to be double-checked for cross-compiling.
Right now I'm working on riscv64-linux support in Guix, it has a lot of
@@ -428,23 +428,24 @@ reproducible software environments to researchers in(?)
psychology and I
was researching software to accomplish that. Binder/repo2docker was the
obvious and most mature solution at that time and a colleague of mine had
set up a proof of concept server already. But it could only handle public
-projects out-of-the-box and setting up an entire kubernetes cluster
+projects out-of-the-box and setting up an entire Kubernetes cluster
didn’t seem particularly appealing at that time, because no other
project was moving in that direction yet. So I set out to look for
alternatives. Another idea was based around OpenStack and one virtual
machine per project with preinstalled software, which we would keep
for eternity. Also not ideal and OpenStack is very hard to master
-too. So I looked further at nix, which – at that time – lacked
+too. So I looked further at Nix, which – at that time – lacked
an obvious way to spawn ad-hoc environments with a certain set of
packages. Thankfully I stumbled upon GNU Guix by mere accident, which had
exactly that feature. And so in December 2019 [my first code contribution
was merged](https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38576).
+
Prior to that I had never written a single line of Scheme or Lisp and
even now it’s still a steep hill. GNU Guix still powers our project and
allows us to easily share software environments while providing
excellent application startup times. I also started contributing
software that I run on my own machines, but I’m not running Guix System,
-because compared to systemd shepherd is quite limited on the desktop and
+because compared to systemd, Shepherd is quite limited on the desktop and
Guix’ lack of first-class support for non-free drivers/firmware, which I
need to even boot my machine.
- branch master updated (02a7f05 -> 041d5dd), Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/17
- 01/06: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Add Efraim's story., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/17
- 02/06: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Add Lars-Dominik's story., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/17
- 06/06: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Include graphics., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/17
- 03/06: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Capitalize proper nouns.,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- 04/06: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Add Hartmut's story., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/17
- 05/06: promotional: 10-years-of-guix: New artwork., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/17