About the author

Hi there! I’m a French guy, sharing my life between France and Mexico with my wife and kid. Currently I am in: Oaxaca, Mexico.

I’ve been working as a software engineer for some years now, that means I understand how everything went so wrong, not necessarily how to fix it. ;) Still, I enjoy making things with computers and believe open-source is the best way to share and learn together.

I’ve worked remotely for years, but I can assure you that I like to meet people. :)

Computers

Curiosity is the main reason I’m into computers, and also a sense of practicality: I like to (re-)program things around me to do whatever I want. Not always what the vendor thought would be nice. This is sadly less and less permitted by hardware and software vendors, and so requires more patience and skills than it should, but we can still have tons of fun.

If you’ve ever had to replace a battery in an appliance, a broken phone screen, or modify retail electronics, you know how this sucks. We must improve that in order to be free, and produce less waste.

I’m using this

I’m writing this on an M2 Apple laptop, a gift from a previous employer. I also have an older Dell XPS 13, which I keep around to run Archlinux (BTW) on actual hardware. I’ve had the laptop for years, it’s less powerful than most smartphones, and I’ve changed a few parts along the road. I also run some homelab things on 2 rpis, also running Linux.

I spend most of my time in terminals running tmux, and usually let sway manage windows for me. I’m trying something called Zen to browse the net, or sometimes Orion, or Chromium because Chrome is the web, don’t you know? Ah well, another thing that sucks.

I write in Neovim, store passwords with Bitwarden, and synchronize files between various devices using a combination of Syncthing and git-annex. Musicpd is probably playing music close by, if Spotify isn’t.

I don’t identify with a specific branch of the developer or sysadmin trees, but I enjoy these programming languages: Go, Rust, Ruby and also Haskell. I’m always looking for excuses to play with other languages, more so if they try to change how I think of programming. Lately: Gleam, Zig, Typescript, Racket, etc. 🤓

Photography

I have been into photography for years, as a private hobby mostly. I believe that the best camera is often the one you got with you. When possible, I like less magic than what a smartphone provides though.

I’m usually shooting with:

It’s fun to realize that I’ve gone from carrying huge DSLRs, like Canon’s 5Ds, to much much smaller stuff. My back is happier at least.

About this website

I have never been very good at maintaining websites. However, as I sometimes feel the need to write (sorry about that), I once decided that keeping an online repository would help. Of course it does not: it has been fun (and time-consuming) when I had the leisure to roll my own software for the task, and boring at best when I tried to use other people’s soup.

So, I guess that this is the N-th attempt, using a great piece of software named hakyll which sits on the fine line between DIY and not my business.

Finally, this site helps me a lot to keep in touch with family and friends. As I live away from most of them for months at a time, and not all can afford to travel to Mexico, France, or wherever we are.

Still reading?

I have many projects related to my interests. One of these is to own all the data I produce voluntarily online, in order to make it available under this domain first-hand, before federating to various services. However, time is not my friend, and you’ll find me on various centralized online services:

That decentralization thing is ongoing ; we’ll see where it leads in a few years.