Renan LE CARO

So long google, and thanks for all the nudes The play store does not run on my old devices, this led me accidentally experience some joy while using Android.

Tabby - a very simple text editor Tabby is a text editor focused on privacy and simplicity.

KanbanMD update Right click actions have been added to the tabs, lists and cards Much nicer behavior on paste, and you can force copied sections to be pasted as cards with ctrl + shift + v Added the prevent default plugin to disable some shortcuts Focus t…

I'm working on a new brick breaker game It is based on breakout 71 but with a focus on easier learning and less metaprogression.

A new version of KanbanMD is out I fixed the undo/redo bahavior, added board backgrounds and dark mode.

Software I use every day I've spent a lot of time exploring various solutions to computing problems and thought I'd share a bit of my findings.

KanbanMD is now free I've built a desktop app to use markdown files as trello boards.

About desync Two months after writing about how we should have peer to peer data sync for contacts and calendars, I stumbled upon a project called DecSync CC on F-Droid.

Maybe we don't need a server Syncthing for notes and photos Have you heard of syncthing ?

New project: Kanban md Born from Atlassian's annoying behavior, it's a Kanban board desktop app based on local markdown files.

Beautiful software Beautiful software starts simple and focused on the main use case.

Never buy Xiaomi phones I've bought a Xiaomi phone (Redmi Note 7) that was always a bit annoying (ads, spyware, random installs), until I finally managed to unlock the bootloader and install a pretty clean ROM.

Sublime plugins are surprisingly easy to write I have i3 keyboard shortcuts to write a new blog entry or note ~/.config/i3/config bindsym $mod+J exec ~/projects/bins/today.sh ~/Documents/Journal/ bindsym $mod+B exec ~/projects/bins/today.sh ~/Documents/le…

breakout clone and small apks Breakout v1 : strategic but complicated I find the concept of the breakout game fascinating.

How to sharpen a knife I love to cook, and I dislike dull knives.

No spyware, no ads, no bloat When shopping, the products pushed forward are usually bad value.

Improving my i3 keyboard shortcuts for daily notes For a while now, i've had those two lines in my i3 config bindsym $mod+J exec subl ~/Documents/Journal/$(date +%Y%m%d).md bindsym $mod+B exec subl ~/projects/lecaro.me/src/$(date +%Y%m%d).md They let me

The price of the cloud Hosting my SAAS over 9 years I run an app (ciboulette.net) in the cloud.

Slow deploys of meteor apps are not a fatality I've been developing a meteor app since 2015 now, and the production deployments have always been quite slow, around 15 minutes.

Introducting NanoSheets, a spreadsheets library in 2.5KB of JS A while ago I made a small tool called importabular, that would help me import data into ciboulette.net It's a spreadsheet like UI with named columns.

2024 update Long time no see !

Integrating remote services in e2e tests Ciboulette.net has a large battery of tests that ensure I don't break too many things when doing a deployment.

2023 update In 2022 in got a new job at Della AI and moved to Nantes.

Picnic: end-to-end encrypted collaborative text editor I felt like having a small break from my main project this month, so I'm giving myself some weeks to try out other ideas I've been putting off.

One liner to watch the current folder and tree its structure I've been working with smstools3 which uses a folder and its subfolder as its state store.

Github action to check for TODOs and FIXMEs I had some TODO and FIXME instructions in random locations in my code that served no purpose, as I was never looking for them.

Configuring i3 for headful e2e tests i3 is nice.

Meteor lags ?

Javascript minification with sed I added a few of my projects to https://1mb.club/.

Be careful what you ping for I have a setup to know when my main app, ciboulette.net, is down.

Customizing the look of Publii I really like the look of the default Publii theme, however some modifications weren't quite working using the in-app options.

Automating local backups of DO MUP on Ubuntu DO + MUP = 💙 I've migrated my main project, from Heroku to Digital Ocean, with the help of the awesome meteor up tool.

Documenting systems Back when I was working at virtualQ, I had to do some documentation.

Giving Publii a try As a web developer, I've created some websites for family and friends.