• Running MongoDB from Guix

    I have been watching a tutorial on GraphQL recently (YouTube link) where the lecturer uses MongoDB for persistent storage. He instructs viewers to sign up for a service that hosts a database, but I wanted to run a local instance on my machine instead. MongoDB is not available in the Void repos, but fortunately it is available in the Guix repos. However, running the Mongo deamon requires a little tweak first.

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  • A pipe operator for Lua

    I have recently been getting into Elixir, and one nice feature it has is the pipe operator. It allows us to express a pipeline of function through which an object will be dragged. This got me thinking: with how flexible Lua is, would it be possible to add something similar to Lua as well?

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