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As usual, nothing too exciting. To be precise, I *am* excited, but I'm not sure
it's exciting to anyone else. Maybe too early for that. Anyway, let's get to
the point.

The number of repositories in [[!rel4sub darcs]] is growing. I wrote a
definition of [[/projects/Kort]] and started implementing a
[[/projects/language-kort|parser]] for it, since it's much easier than Idan and
will give me more tools and experience. There's a release of
[[/projects/text-position]] in [[!hackage text-position desc=Hackage]], and
there will be more soon. [[/projects/razom-text-util]] is probably next.

Since I started using Pump.io, I've seen a lot of interest, especially from
[[Chris Webber|http://dustycloud.org]], in GNU Guix and its distribution
GuixSD. I read a bit and I'm interested to try too. The point relevant to
Rel4tion is that GuixSD may become the target for the packaging of Release 0,
instead of (or in addition to) Deb packages. Adding GHC and cabal-install to
Trisquel wasn't an issue because it already had a GHC version, but with Guix I
may need to check how to "bootstrap" a self-building package. Or did they
already package Haskell tools? I'll check.

The mail server got Sieve filtering support. It seems there's no good CLI or
GUI for script editing (Thunderbird is a whole huge MUA and gsieve seems to
just give you a GtkTextView et al. to write the script by hand), and I don't
use a supporting MUA nor a web app for e-mail. So here's an idea for a cute
side project: CLI and GUI for creating scripts, with both text editing and a
dedicated friendly visual editor, and management of the scripts on the server
(list them, update them, delete them, de/activate them and so on).

I'm using `sieve-connect` right now, but I had issues when connecting with TLS.
Luckily I'm connecting from localhost so I can bypass this, but it's not a
permanent solution. I'll see how it goes. I'm still in the process of
converting my filtering rules to the Sieve language (a few `sed` runs did most
of the work already)

Hmmmm I think that's all. The federation related thoughts/work are on hold.
Most of the times I work on a side project ([[/projects/collection]] included),
it's a result of stress. This funny univer$ity thing is ruining everything...
I'm so much more relaxed and productive in the summer when I have a clear
schedule and no homework or exams.

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