I'm fashionably late to the photosphere trend (a.k.a. photobubble, a.k.a. VR photography). The practice is already deprecated on regular Android smartphones (in favor of real 360⁰ cameras, I suppose), but armed with the arcane knowledge of
Posted: February 18, 2026 Category: web While surfing the web like it's 2006, looking for new webcomics to follow and add to my RSS reader, I stumbled upon Kagi's smallcomic.txt, a list of almost 400 webcomic RSS feeds. This is great! So ma…
Posted: September 05, 2025 Category: (none) For a post about org-mode kombucha I've been exporting my terminal content to html. With tmux and ascii2html (there are multiple programs with that name, here I refer to the one part of Debian's c…
Posted: September 04, 2025 Categories: food, orgmode I've been making kombucha for some time now. The science is very much non-exact and fascinating. To keep track of experiments, I use a self-contained org-mode file. Kombucha is a fermente…
Posted: February 26, 2024 Category: places The Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is a one-stop shop for all kinds of wonders. Often expanded, rarely renovated, this bizarre resort definitely stands out on the Strip. It's a unique
Posted: January 24, 2022 Categories: debian, debsources, python Rumors are running that python2 is not a thing anymore. Well, I'm certainly late to the party, but I'm happy to report that sources.debian.org is now running python3. Back when…
Posted: November 04, 2021 Category: python I've been trying to transmit arbitrary binary data in an URL, more precisely in the resource path. It turns out to be more complex than envisioned. Let's say we have a web application, serving file…
Posted: February 02, 2021 Category: linux In other words, Ctrl+c on one computer, and Ctrl-v on a different one. I recently had to log in to a service, using a computer that was not yet configured with my password manager (bootstrapping pro…
Posted: September 26, 2019 Category: python I wrote a little script to iterate over a git repository, and count for each commit: the Python source lines of code (with sloccount), and the PEP-8 warnings (with flake8). It is quite interesting…
Posted: February 09, 2019 Categories: python, sqlalchemy, bokeh If you keep some data in an SQL database, mapped to SQLAlchemy classes, and representing things your users do, you might be interested in generating graphs of users activity. T…
Posted: February 28, 2018 Category: phd Hooray! I successfully defended my PhD. The thesis and defense slides are freely available. It was quite an adventure. Since this thesis sums up the work I've done in the last 3+ years, I thought it'd…
Posted: February 26, 2018 Category: conference I'm quite late on the recap, but here's the list of the talks I attended during 34c3, the 34th Chaos Communication Congress: The Enemy: face-to-face with combatants WTFrance: a sneak peek into