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Warning: on 2024 10 24, my Facebook account was hacked. Alas, Facebook did not allow me to get back my account, or even report it, so I had to create a new one. So p...

Attention : le 2024 10 24, mon compte Facebook a été piraté. Hélas, Facebook ne m'a pas permis de récupérer mon compte, ni même de le signaler, et j'ai donc dû en cr...

I have been retired for one year now, and what happened? Well... I basically stopped coding and reading about anything computer related for eight months. I didn't ...

I am a knowledge addict, and always has been. I was reading as many books as possible, and the advent of the web has been a marvelous gift for me. But I soon realize...

At last, I am now retired! I ceased all activity on 2021 02 17, and my work account will be destroyed on 2021 02 28. A new era of full time surfing, coding and playi...

A big change is planned for this site in 2021: I am going to abandon the Foswiki engine for it, to pursue my recent goal of going back to the web roots. Basically, i...

After 10 years of neglect, it is time for a new start of this site, because: I am going to retire in early 2021 (in 6 months), and I will have now time to properly...

At last, I found the motivation to work again on this site that I have left dormant since 2009. And I start with a long deserved migration of the engine from the old...

I know, I know, it is easy to nitpick on other people design, but this morning I tried to pay my phone bill online, and... failed. I had to retry many times, because...

Rsync incr has been updated to version 1.7. It is a small bugfix version for a bug that could happen if you started it, and restarted another in the same minute. A m...

I stumbled upon the blog post "Is it important to write good code?" the other day, and became more and more ill at ease as I realized that I thought that I preferred...

For some time now, I have seen the light and I switched to the new wave of the Distributed Source Control management systems. Linus famous video of his Google talk d...