A quest for less

You don't need a touchscreen to use your fingers. It's about the keyboard, you know, that board full of keys that comes attached to most desktop, office and gaming computers. Keyboards are like butterflies, a simple concept (two wings, an elongated body and a weird mouth) declined in an infinity of colors and lifespans. I … Lire la suite A quest for less →

Desperately vanilla

And I'm not talking about ice cream. I'm a SRE, a Site Reliability Engineer. It's almost like a DevOps Engineer, but handsome. My job is to make sure the web services I'm looking after are working. How is that different from a good old sysadmin ? It's not, a SRE is simply a sysadmin in … Lire la suite Desperately vanilla →

Australia Day 2022

Jour férié aujourd’hui, c’est comme tous les ans l’Australia Day le 26 Janvier. Le soleil tapant très fort dehors, je suis installé dans une des food courts du centre commercial de Chadstone où il fait bon frais. Je ne sais plus très bien pourquoi, mais hier soir je songeais à la semaine passée à Sydney … Lire la suite Australia Day 2022 →

Like, share, subscribe: my life as a YouTuber

I opened my YouTube channel in May of 2007 after I got a new Samsung Z560 mobile phone capable of recording videos in a very questionable resolution compared to what we have today. It was less than a year after Google bought YouTube in October of 2006 and nobody was sure what to do with … Lire la suite Like, share, subscribe: my life as a YouTuber →

Detecting WiFi deauth attacks

WiFi networks have been the norm for more than 10 years in our homes, businesses and offices. They are simple and quick to setup: no wiring, no cables running around the house, just a power plug, a few antennas and no more than 3 clicks are all you need to gain access to Internet. As … Lire la suite Detecting WiFi deauth attacks →

Let’s end racism, forever

I am a universalist and atheist citizen of the 5th French Republic. I was born and raised in a country which official Constitution clearly states that All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Religion, skin color, age, gender, job, political opinion, nothing can legally justify any kind of discrimination, positive … Lire la suite Let’s end racism, forever →

1 bit chiptune: arpeggios, eargasm on channel 3

If there's one sound effect that instantly screams chiptune, it has to be arpeggios. To the profane, they simply sound like an old 80's phone, but to older geeks and nerds, they are the sweet sound of SID, AY and YM goodness. When hearing it you start seeing starfields, plain flashy colored 3D cubes and … Lire la suite 1 bit chiptune: arpeggios, eargasm on channel 3 →

Log analytics: The United Erratic Failed Failures of Failistan (DeLuxe)

What do some production incidents and airplane disasters have in common ? Let me tell you a very short, but terrible story. On the 4th of October 1992 at 6:35 PM, El Al flight 1862 en route to Tel Aviv crashed into two high-rise apartment complexes, exploding in a fireball. This caused the building to … Lire la suite Log analytics: The United Erratic Failed Failures of Failistan (DeLuxe) →

Getting my new laptop to run Linux

As much as I like Linux, and while it works 100% on any server / vm / container, getting it to run on a new consumer-grade computer can range from very easy to full on nightmare mode, though most of the time, things will be just fine, only requiring a few simple tweaks here and … Lire la suite Getting my new laptop to run Linux →

How to look for a job, DevOps-style

Back in 2011, on a Sunday evening, I updated my Seek profile. It seemed like a pretty innocent innocuous low-risk update: I changed my mobile phone number. Sadly for me, when I woke up on Monday, I felt sick. I went to a doctor nearby, spent two hours in the waiting room and finally got … Lire la suite How to look for a job, DevOps-style →