Emmanuel Bernard

I use XMind as my main thinking tool.

I wanted to run Claude Code in YOLO mode but isolated from my actual machine.

If you’ve used function calling in your agentic apps, you know the challenges: Piling up tools consumes a lot of tokens as each tool definition is carried in your context window.

Yesterday I went to a presentation by Cyrille Matraire on Software Craftsmanship and AI.

After 20 years of an Open Source led career at JBoss and Red Hat, I have decided to leave this family and explore a new path.

I recently spent time automating some of my repetitive tasks using JBang scripts, with Claude Code helping me along the way in VSCode (oh sorry, it’s called Visual Studio Code now).

If you are playing with AI as a developer, you might has heard of Model Context Protocol (MCP) which is a way for an app to connect an LLM with some capabilities like an API, a file explorer, a database etc.

I recently spent some time exploring Diataxis, a documentation framework that promises to make technical documentation not just readable but genuinely useful.

If you are curious or interested in FIDO2 security keys and how to use them as SSH keys or to sign your Git commits, this is the blog for you.

I have been struggling to install Ruby on Apple Silicon, this was due to an OpenSSL version misalignment.

Today I learned that you could sign your Git commits not only via a gpg key but also via a ssh key.

For people old enough to have used the IBM keyboards you could stop a tank with, a mechanical keyboard is an achievement in life you are striving for.

Assuming you have a new NAS for your backups and personal files hosting.

I have had intuitively mixed feelings with the proposed 2 years Long Term Support plan of OpenJDK (from 3 today) so I wanted to write down what was causing it.

I have been using bash as a shell for as long as I remember and added prompt customization for almost as long as I remember.

Econtalk is a good podcast where interviews bring you to ideas you have not thought of or crystallized before.

Importing Evernote notes into a new tool can sometimes fail mid way.

Max Andersen asked something interesting over the week-end on Twitter.

I am on the market for a new notes application, I have been asking around for advice.

There is a really neat feature in GMail that you should make more use of: scheduled emails.

Communicating in a remote team has some specific challenges.

For the longest time, I was just plainly annoyed at people that were putting two spaces after a period.

Some people complain to you that your sharing screen is blurry with Google Meet.

Ever had a small task to script?

After 8 and a half venerable years of service, I’ve retired my Awestruct based blog and migrated it to Jekyll.

I recently changed my desktop monitor to a super ultra wide 49” and I love it.

On m’a recommandé de lire le livre Sans Emploi - Condition de l’homme postindustriel de Raphaël Liogier pour comprendre la notion de revenu universel.

tl;dr; using powerline and having it fail after a homebrew update?

Tig is a textual GUI for git which lets you manipulate your git repo like GitX or SourceTree but without leaving your terminal.

If like me you live a double life (pro and personal) and like me you want to share your availability via calendars, you probably have created clones of the same event into multiple calendars.

The physical parts of your MacBook (fans, ports etc) behaves erratically?

I like Evernote because all my notes are in a single place and I can access it from everywhere (desktop, phone).

I’ve been wrestling with an issue for quite a while: embed vim options into a Markdown file.

You can start IntelliJ IDEA from the command line which is handy when you live in a terminal like me.

Je n’avais jamais bien compris pourquoi les baby boomers étaient un tel problème pour les retraites des plus jeunes.

I gave a three hours course on inverted index to students from Telecom SudParis an engineering school here in… Paris :) It was fun to refresh my knowledge on all the fundamental structures that make Lucene what it is.

It is surprisingly hard to find a good explanation to level-based compaction of a Log-Structured Merge Tree.

I noticed that the Devoxx France call for paper (CfP) application was influencing my votes.

There is a lot being written about corporate tax optimisation/evasion these days both in Europe and in the US.

Homebrew’s Mutt formulae is in a bit of a disarray.

Recently running rsync to my Synology diskstation stopped working.

I just learned about the ability to fold in Vim.

Maven is quite verbose.

I have decided to move this website to HTTPS.

In this post, you will learn everything you need about SPF (Sender Policy Framework), what it means for your emails and how / if to set it up for your domains.

Here is a tiny little tool that will speed up the multi-tasking life of terminal users: be notified when a command finishes.

Devoxx France m’a offert une place suite au travail que j’ai fait dans le comité de sélection.

The text message synchronization between iOS and Mac OS X devices is very useful.

I wrote a bit more than a year ago on how to wrap lines for markup languages.

I have been a rather early adopter of ebook readers.