Olivier's log

I call the "self-calling executable" an inception technique, by which a currently running executable starts another version of itself (directly or indirectly).

After using NixOS for more than a year, one aspect that I didn't expect to enjoy was software patching.

One of the first program that I wrote in Zig (in September 2023) was a Sudoku-Solver, implementing the dancing-links (DLX) algorithm.

These are my notes on refurbishing a laptop with a broken screen hinge to a NixOS home server.

I read a blog post today, which I found very inspiring and encouraged me to reflect on myself.

Like many developers, I like to reinvent the wheel.

Solderpunk proposed an "OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge" for March, to develop and share some software which is offline-first: The spirit of OFFLFIRSOCH is to identify those tasks which you routinely use some online service for, not because the task is in

I created vanitydoc to be able to use my own domain for my go modules while being able to host the code on different forges.

I've been involved more and more with open-source and free software lately.

I have been hired to develop free software to refund traveling costs for Boy and Girl Scouts.

TL;DR you can now run "git clone https://log.pfad.fr" to subscribe to the source of this log.

I have read a lot recently about Nix (the OS, the package manager and the language).

Up until now, this site has been hosted on sourcehut pages.

I have read a lot about Climate Change lately and I have been thinking about how I can contribute to its fight.

This is my first attempt at a monthly update.

I write quite a lot of software in Go, mostly web-based.

Git ships with built-in tools for collaborating over email.

I have been happily using Gokrazy on an old Raspberry Pi.

[Update 2023] Git send-email without format-patch My outdated workflow using format-patch is still available here, but I strongly recommend switching to the workflow above.

[Update 2024] Vanitydoc reloaded I updated this post after updating large parts of vanitydoc (it can now serve the documentation of the current module and generate static files of multiple modules at once).

I had an old Raspberry Pi lying around and wanted to achieve something with it.

Today someone wanted to send me a large video file (around 3 GB).

Tech Stack I write the content in gemtext and kiln does the gemini+html generation.

This is my first post on log.pfad.fr.