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What Happened in January 2026? (January 30, 2026, ): My writeup about tinkerbell sparked some discussions, I finally gave in to the code agent hype (on my own terms), and this website got new RSS feeds.
I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine) (January 5, 2026, ): To kick off 2026, I had clear objectives in mind: decommissioning my trusty VPS and setting up its successor. Embracing a complete paradigm shift, I built myself a container-centric, declarative, and low-maintenance setup for the years to come.
What Happened in 2024? (January 1, 2025, ): We are done with 2024, and now is a good time to reflect on what has happened over the past 12 months. I was not planning to, but my feed convinced me to give it a try. Plus, it is a good opportunity to revive my “Retrospective” series.
Serving This Article from RAM for Fun and No Real Benefit (December 25, 2024): This article is a kind of experience report of writing an HTTP server serving my website directly from memory, no file system involved. Just keep in mind: I am pretty that you should not try to reproduce this for your own little corner of the Internet, but I had a lot of fun.
The Free and Open Source Software Projects This Website is Built Upon in June 2023 (June 23, 2023): In the past, I had a page called “Thanks!” dedicated to listing the free and open source software projects I was relying on to create this website. I do want to approach this exercise differently this time: instead of keeping one page up to date with the latest software stack I am using, I will publish a new article every now and then. This article is the first of this series.
What happened since December 2022? (May 18, 2023, ): “Regularity is key.” But sometimes, it is a bit hard to get right. Anyway, let’s catch up.
What happened in September 2022? (September 18, 2022, ): In a nutshell, my latest hobby project (Spatial Sway) works well enough so that I can use it daily, and I have done some unsuccessful experiments for this website.
What happened in August 2022? (August 15, 2022, ): In an attempt to start a regular blogging habbits, I am giving a try to the monthly “status updates” format. This month: some Emacs config hacking, and some changes on how this website is generated.
A Literate Toolchain To Build This Website (February 4, 2020): Our literate programming toolchain cannot live solely inside Org files, waiting to be turned into actual code by Babel. Otherwise there we would not have any code to execute the first time we try to generate the website.