Saving a restic backup the hard way
Mon 06 Sep 2021
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a...
The most useful math formulas
Wed 09 Jun 2021
These last years, in the context of working on a graphic rendering engine, I've been confronted to many engineering problems...
Building a competitive ladder for OpenRA
Fri 25 Dec 2020
3 years ago, mainly for nostalgic reasons, I started playing [OpenRA](https://www.openra.net), a free and open-source re-implementation of the engine of...
Finding specific multimedia samples
Thu 13 Aug 2020
When working in multimedia or image processing projects such as FFmpeg, we tend to accumulate a lot of samples over...
Story of debugging a crash in MPD
Wed 12 Aug 2020
Getting close to 3 years without posting. I haven't been peacefully enjoying a retired commoner life during all this time....
Self editing a (French) novel with free and open source software
Wed 25 Oct 2017
In 2013, my companion wrote a novel about medieval music and audio senses, *De Auditu*. Originally distributed exclusively on the...
Making development board cases with ShimonBox
Tue 17 Oct 2017
Collecting ARM development boards has become a disease I've been carrying for a while now. Welcoming a new board to...
Dealing with the ARM AArch64 SIMD documentation
Fri 26 May 2017
The ARMv8 instruction set documentation has always been garbage, and particularly the SIMD sections. In comparison, the Intel documentation provides...
Understanding selective coloring in Adobe Photoshop
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Photoshop has many interesting color filters, most of them being perfidiously documented such that you can understand how to use...
High quality GIF with FFmpeg
Mon 16 Mar 2015
About two years ago, I tried to improve the support of the GIF encoding in FFmpeg to make it at...