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<h2 id="orgb7396a1">Get rich slow with Guile and Guix</h2>
<p>
Guix Social
</p>
<p>
2024-06-18
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<p>
<a href="https://dthompson.us">https://dthompson.us</a>
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<section>
<section id="slide-orgbf39c59">
<h2 id="orgbf39c59">Hi!</h2>
<ul>
<li>I'm David Thompson</li>
<li>From Massachusetts, USA
<ul>
<li>The birthplace of Scheme and Free Software</li>
</ul></li>
<li>CTO at Spritely Institute</li>
<li>Guile/Guix user and contributor for over 10 years</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orga8bf3de">
<h2 id="orga8bf3de">tl;dr</h2>
<ul>
<li>2012: Discovered Scheme then started using Guile</li>
<li>2013: Became an early Guix contributor</li>
<li>2015-2017: Made my own tools/libraries with Guile</li>
<li>2022-now: Making FOSS full-time</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org023eb7d">
<h2 id="org023eb7d">2012: Libreplanet</h2>
<p>
In hindsight, the most defining moment in my career path:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Yukihiro Matsumoto: "How Emacs Changed My Life"</li>
<li>Christine Lemmer-Webber: GNU MediaGoblin</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org88ab961">
<h2 id="org88ab961">2012: Libreplanet</h2>
<ul>
<li>Immediately dropped Vim for Emacs</li>
<li>Started to use/hack on MediaGoblin</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org2595624">
<h2 id="org2595624">2012: Ruby</h2>
<ul>
<li>First professional development job writing Ruby</li>
<li>Relevant to Guix, eventually</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgd224131">
<h2 id="orgd224131">2012: Game dev</h2>
<ul>
<li>Wanted to make games as a hobby</li>
<li>Went the C core with embedded "scripting" language route</li>
<li>Started with Lua, but then…</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org0f4df98">
<h2 id="org0f4df98">2012: SICP</h2>
<img class="stretch" src="sicp.jpg">
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org94b7651">
<h2 id="org94b7651">2012: Guile</h2>
<ul>
<li>"official" GNU extension language</li>
<li>I was into GNU at the time</li>
<li>Can extend C programs… but at what cost?</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org7f542bb">
<h2 id="org7f542bb">2013: First FOSS patch</h2>
<ul>
<li>Like many, I struggled to find a way to participate in FOSS
development</li>
<li>GNU MediaGoblin turned out to be very welcoming!
<ul>
<li>Issue tracker had "bitesized" tag for newcomers</li>
<li>I added an option to enable/disable comments</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgf2a216c">
<h2 id="orgf2a216c">2013: Guix</h2>
<ul>
<li>I hadn't heard of Nix, but this new Guix thing by Ludovic Courtès
looked fascinating</li>
<li>Started before the distro was bootstrapped</li>
<li>Switched from Debian to Guix later</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org6e51367">
<h2 id="org6e51367">Why Guix?</h2>
<ul>
<li>Functional package management model</li>
<li>Practical software freedom</li>
<li>Whole-system rollback</li>
<li>Easy development environments</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orge7d05b5">
<h2 id="orge7d05b5">Extend vs. Embed</h2>
<ul>
<li>Nix embeds Bash into package recipes</li>
<li>Guix uses Guile all the way down (almost)</li>
<li>Scheme isn't <b>icing</b> on top of C++/Bash
<ul>
<li>Scheme is the <b>cake</b></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org88000da">
<h2 id="org88000da">2013: Guix contributor</h2>
<ul>
<li>First Guix patch: Packaged libtheora</li>
<li>Packaged SDL, SDL2, etc. shortly after</li>
<li>Ludo gave me commit access!</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org0124b00">
<h2 id="org0124b00">2013: Guile contributor</h2>
<ul>
<li>First patch to Guile: <code>alist->hash-table</code></li>
<li>Worked on <code>(system repl coop-server)</code> with Mark Weaver</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org4e060be">
<h2 id="org4e060be">2014: Ruby build system</h2>
<ul>
<li>Wrote <code>(guix build-system ruby)</code> and initial Ruby packages</li>
<li>Pjotr Prins was involved in this, too</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org081ed55">
<h2 id="org081ed55">2014: guix environment</h2>
<ul>
<li>Wanted something like <code>nix shell</code></li>
<li>Would become <code>guix shell</code> later</li>
<li>Did not achieve consensus on sane defaults
<ul>
<li>Remember <code>--ad-hoc</code>?</li>
</ul></li>
<li><code>guix shell</code> corrected the problems, eventually</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org7a7a48a">
<h2 id="org7a7a48a">2015: guix publish</h2>
<ul>
<li>Guix wanted to encourage more substitute providers
<ul>
<li>but Hydra was a large piece of software</li>
</ul></li>
<li>I wrote the initial version of <code>guix publish</code>
<ul>
<li>Pure Guile; uses the <code>(web ...)</code> modules</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org74e444c">
<h2 id="org74e444c">2015: guix publish</h2>
<ul>
<li>Seems to have been useful over the years
<ul>
<li>but substitute availability is far from a solved problem</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Distributed substitutes seem like the way to go</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org96e031e">
<h2 id="org96e031e">2015: call-with-container</h2>
<ul>
<li>Learned that there was more to containers than layered disk images
<ul>
<li>Thanks to Docker for "container" ambiguity! 😞</li>
</ul></li>
<li>The good stuff is actually the runtime environment (Linux namespaces, etc.)</li>
<li>Can we implement just the good parts of Docker for Guix?</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orge484ebe">
<h2 id="orge484ebe">2015: call-with-container</h2>
<ul>
<li>Don't mount opaque disk images of unknown provenance</li>
<li>Bind mount <code>/gnu/store</code> directories instead</li>
<li>Containment + reproducibility</li>
<li>Used in:
<ul>
<li><code>guix shell --container</code></li>
<li><code>guix system container</code></li>
<li>containerized Shepherd services</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org8910e89">
<h2 id="org8910e89">2015: Haunt</h2>
<ul>
<li>Static site generator written in Guile</li>
<li>Uses <code>guix shell</code> for development environment</li>
<li>Guix is the first (only?) distro that gets package updates</li>
<li>Both the Guix and Guile websites use Haunt</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org6456b74">
<h2 id="org6456b74">2016: Oops, I bought a house</h2>
<ul>
<li>Who could have imagined this would use up all my free time?</li>
<li>Guix contibutions greatly reduced
<ul>
<li>I've never returned to my previous level of activity</li>
<li>But the Guix community has grown <b>a lot</b>!</li>
<li>I can be a user now (mostly) 👾</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgef7a649">
<h2 id="orgef7a649">2017: Chickadee</h2>
<img class="stretch" src="chickadee-3d.png">
<ul>
<li>After all this time, I still wanted to make games</li>
<li>Created Guile-SDL2 along the way</li>
<li>Uses <code>guix shell</code> for development, naturally</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orge6433be">
<h2 id="orge6433be">Chickadee</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>not</b> a wrapper around raylib, etc.</li>
<li>Inspired by Guix to <b>maximize</b> usage of Guile</li>
<li>Rendering code 100% Scheme (until we hit libGL)
<ul>
<li>Made possible by Andy Wingo's incredible compiler/VM work</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgec5274e">
<h2 id="orgec5274e">2019: guix deploy</h2>
<ul>
<li>Wanted an answer to Chef, Ansible, etc.</li>
<li>Co-mentored Jakob L. Kreuze with Christine Lemmer-Webber for Google
Summer of Code</li>
<li>A GSoC project that made it upstream!</li>
<li>I now manage my personal server with <code>guix deploy</code></li>
<li>Lots of improvements could be made
<ul>
<li>Any volunteers? 🙂</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgab15080">
<h2 id="orgab15080">Intermission: Pandemic</h2>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org2cbde34">
<h2 id="org2cbde34">2022: Lisp Game Jam</h2>
<ul>
<li>Became co-host of the Lisp Game Jam on itch.io
<ul>
<li>along with Fennel maintainer technomancy</li>
</ul></li>
<li>This will become relevant shortly</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org3f25a25">
<h2 id="org3f25a25">2022: Spritely</h2>
<img style="background-color: #edeaee; border-radius: 5px;" class="stretch" src="spritely-institute-logo.png">
<ul>
<li>Spritely is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit</li>
<li>Cofounded by <b>Christine Lemmer-Webber</b>
<ul>
<li>now famous for ActivityPub!</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Building the next generation of <b>secure</b>, distributed networking
infrastructure</li>
<li>Object capability security</li>
</ul>
<p>
<a href="https://spritely.institute">https://spritely.institute</a>
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org55f9142">
<h2 id="org55f9142">OCapN: The Object Capability Network</h2>
<video src="ocapn-handoff.mp4" autoplay="true" loop="true" class="stretch"/>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org7d1a1bc">
<h2 id="org7d1a1bc">OCapN</h2>
<ul>
<li>Open standard for capability-secure networking</li>
<li>Pre-standardization phase</li>
</ul>
<p>
<a href="https://ocapn.org">https://ocapn.org</a>
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orga5d2240">
<h2 id="orga5d2240">My role at Spritely</h2>
<ul>
<li>Initially hired as Core Infrastructure Architect
<ul>
<li>now CTO</li>
</ul></li>
<li>First big project: Distributed debugging</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org3a26587">
<h2 id="org3a26587">2023: Distributed debugger</h2>
<img class="stretch" src="questie-lamport-diagram.png">
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orga522489">
<h2 id="orga522489">How Spritely uses Guix</h2>
<ul>
<li><code>guix shell</code> for development environments</li>
<li><code>guix deploy</code> to manage servers over SSH</li>
<li><code>guix pack -f docker</code> to build CI images</li>
<li>Goblins and Hoot releases are immediately published to Guix on
release day</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org002722e">
<h2 id="org002722e">Highlight: GitLab CI</h2>
<p>
I've noticed people asking about this lately:
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-sh" ><code trim>guix pack -m ci-manifest.scm -C zstd -f docker -S /bin=bin
skopeo copy ...
</code></pre>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org3dcefa7">
<h2 id="org3dcefa7">2023: Hoot</h2>
<img class="stretch" src="hoot-future-of-scheme-hacking.png">
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org6ec5278">
<h2 id="org6ec5278">2023: Hoot</h2>
<ul>
<li>Hoot is a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler
<ul>
<li>with its own toolchain!</li>
<li><b>No</b> emscripten!</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Scheme in the browser!</li>
<li>Lead engineer: Andy Wingo (Guile maintainer)</li>
<li>I wrote the Wasm interpreter <code>(wasm vm)</code></li>
<li>Still actively working on toolchain and Scheme implementation</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgeb72c71">
<h2 id="orgeb72c71">2023: Strigoform</h2>
<iframe frameborder="0" src="https://itch.io/embed-upload/8997570?color=333333" allowfullscreen="" width="482" height="662"><a href="https://davexunit.itch.io/strigoform">Play Strigoform on itch.io</a></iframe>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgc4acb3e">
<h2 id="orgc4acb3e">2023: Strigoform</h2>
<ul>
<li>My game dev fascination comes full circle!</li>
<li>Made for the Autumn Lisp Game Jam</li>
<li>One of the first Wasm GC games to be published</li>
<li>Built with Hoot 0.1 + some additional stuff from the main branch</li>
<li>Largest program built with Hoot at the time</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org1a33ba5">
<h2 id="org1a33ba5">2024: Cirkoban</h2>
<iframe frameborder="0" src="https://itch.io/embed-upload/10583669?color=222034" allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="500"><a href="https://davexunit.itch.io/cirkoban">Play Cirkoban on itch.io</a></iframe>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org0e79ea0">
<h2 id="org0e79ea0">2024: Cirkoban</h2>
<ul>
<li>Made for the Spring Lisp Game Jam</li>
<li>Built with Hoot 0.4.1 and a WIP port of Goblins</li>
<li>Uses Goblins actors and transactional rollback</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgd6da513">
<h2 id="orgd6da513">The future: guix develop</h2>
<ul>
<li><code>docker compose</code> but for Guix</li>
<li>I've wanted this for 10 years!</li>
<li>Like <code>guix shell</code> but also spawns a Shepherd</li>
<li>Uh oh, <b>another</b> kind of service?</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org2b8b169">
<h2 id="org2b8b169">The future: Distributed shepherd</h2>
<ul>
<li>Currently funded by NLnet and in development by Juli Sims</li>
<li>Shepherd + Spritely Goblins</li>
<li>Orchestrate clusters of Guix machines securely!</li>
<li><code>guix deploy</code> over Object Capabilities Network (OCapN)?</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgbafb4a2">
<h2 id="orgbafb4a2">The future: Distributed substitutes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Using ERIS perhaps?
<a href="https://codeberg.org/eris/guile-eris/">https://codeberg.org/eris/guile-eris/</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-org0a57b77">
<h2 id="org0a57b77">The future: Guix, the OCap OS</h2>
<ul>
<li>Unified services (no system vs. home split)</li>
<li>Reduce ambient authority on Linux</li>
<li>Build on <code>call-with-container</code>?</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<section id="slide-orgf84a50a">
<h2 id="orgf84a50a">The future: Chickadee + Hoot</h2>
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<li>Native + web builds of Guile games from the same source</li>
<li>Need to improve Wasm GC to make this possible</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="org65ee8c0">Fin</h2>
<ul>
<li>Opportunties come from unexpected vectors</li>
<li>Guile and Guix have come a long way!</li>
<li>Keep pushing the limits of what Guile can do!</li>
<li>Thank you to the Guix Social organizers!</li>
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<h2 id="org7a392c5">Questions?</h2>
<p>
<a href="https://dthompson.us">https://dthompson.us</a>
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<p>
<a href="https://spritely.institute">https://spritely.institute</a>
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