Life Prog

Today's technology world is mostly composed of "enterprise" software, or mainstream languages. Think kubernetes or python, OIDC and LDAP. Working in this world requires you to know about a lot of those technologies, stay up to date, and know how to tweak

Getting started working on an unknown repository can be daunting. Getting all the tools, setting up your environment, running the tests, building the artifact, deploying the new version of the software… All those can take a lot of time and back and forth

For the last few years, I've been trying to find a topic to actually work on to develop a side project. I had quite a few ideas, but always got stuck on the "find people and understand their needs part", because I did not know people in the domain to talk

Getting back into Rust, I want to start documenting my journey to getting a small service running. The first "problem" I had to solve was to add dependencies to the project. The official method is to add the dependencies manually in your Cargo.toml file.

When you create a long running application in Rust, you have to recompile your files everytime you make a change. The first way is to just run cargo run and Ctrl-C the process then run it again when you wa...

I've been using nm-applet in i3 to manage my networks, and it works pretty well. However, I don't really like the icons it comes with in my systray, so I decided to try my hand at creating a little helper to get rid of it and manage my networks in an othe

Working on i3 , you have to define a lot of functionalities yourself, or install the program that does it for you. One of those functionalities is to be alerted in case of a low battery. Let's explore two options, the very simple and the very customizable

I started working on quite a few different projects in the past, whether in my personal or professional life, and the beginning often felt overwhelming. I did not know enough, or did not have a specific enough idea. There were too many moving parts. Pick

I just finished following a quick tutorial about TailwindCSS , you can find it here . My first impressions are really good , but let's go in details about what I liked, a few questions and some extra resources. What I liked most: Easy to get started (with

For this new tool I'm working on, Startyk , there are a few features that I would love to use on my blog. I want this tool to be helpful to writers to understand their audience better, get discovered more easily, and for readers to have a filter, so that