Pensées de Michel

Caveat lector This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance.

Caveat lector This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance.

Caveat lector This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance.

Caveat lector This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance.

I have a more serious post coming, but I figured better not risk being confused for a bad joke (especially given the chardet controversy.

Caveat lector This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance.

the old pen resists but the cursor blinks, waiting— I press Enter.

hole in my sock letting spring in ~ Raymond Roseliep, as quoted in The Christian Century’s January 2024 issue When New Year comes I told myself, ah, I missed my chance of writing down some New Year resolutions - but never mind that, there’s still Lunar New

I have informed colleagues and close external collaborators already, but today it’s finally time to make it public: as of now I am officially working out of Meta’s Dublin office1, and am no longer based in the US.

Looking at what tags to use for this post, it surprised me that it’s been over two years since I posted about taking recharge (basically a short sabbatical).

Many long-time Fedora contributors and users have fond memories of Beefy Miracle, the Fedora 17 code name, and its mascot.

Over the course of 2024, I’ve been increasingly adopting Packit’s pull-from-upstream for automating some package updates.

After about two years of on-and-off work, I’m happy to report that Nushell has finally landed in Fedora and EPEL 9, and can be installed simply using sudo dnf --refresh install nu on Fedora and your favorite Enterprise Linux distribution (I’m partial to C…

I finally got round to attending the Strange Loop conference for the first and last time (since the organizers won’t do another one) .

At Meta, we use sample-based profiling with perf to guide performance optimization work – otherwise we would need even more servers than the ones we already have!

It’s been over 6 years since I started working at Meta (then known as Facebook).

Dear NYT, Because of your repeated transphobia and your doubling down by silencing your internal critics, I can no longer support your publication.

I’ve been a fan of distrobox for a while - it really makes it easy to experiment with different Linux distributions, and also to do packaging work for different distributions regardless of what’s running on the physical machine1.

With the Twitter board accepting Elon’s buyout offer, I’ve reached the point where I can no longer maintain a presence on this network; I’ll post a link to this blog post, wipe all other tweets, and then delete the account after a week.

I’ve been using myrepos for a while - as someone who juggles a lot of repositories, both for personal projects and as a Fedora and CentOS packager, a ~/.mrconfig synced via Nextcloud really makes checking out repositories consistently, on different comput…

I’m happy to announce that Lagrange, probably the most beautiful looking Gemini client, is now available on Fedora and EPEL.

The first CentOS Dojo of the year is, as usual, held as a FOSDEM Fringe event.

Half of 2021 is gone already!

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 24 whole days since my last post!

I’ll be presenting (and last-minute-volunteering) at FOSDEM, and some colleagues from Facebook are presenting at the adjacent CentOS Dojo on topics I’m involved in - and we’d love to get your feedback and hopefully get you involved!

My blog is built using the Hugo static side generator, using a lightly forked version of hello-friend-ng.

4⭐ for content, 5⭐ for writing style TL;DR a very enjoyable read for the Fediverse #SFFBookClub; I breezed through it in only four days.

Following Carl Schwann’s post, I have now enabled comments on my blog, starting with this post.

In a recent thread on Fedora’s development list, Miroslav Suchý asked about what Fedora packagers found most time-consuming, that could be simplified or better automated.

This WeChat account has been permanently blocked due to using an unauthorized WeChat plug-in, non-official app, or simulator.

As a current Facebook employee, for various reasons I would rather not get into I still need to have a personal Facebook account.

I ran across Kev Quick’s announcement for The 512KB Club last month, and noticed that this blog, using the Academic theme for Hugo, was… a bit on the bloated side, clocking in at a whopping 748KB (including 246KB font, 206KB JS, and 190K CSS).

On safety razors I recently switched over from the ubiquitous cartridge razors to double-edge safety razors.

I deleted my Instagram accounts today.

Background I am writing this as a memory aid to myself the next time I have to do this, but this might make a nice addition to the Fedora ARM wiki once cleaned up.

5⭐ for content, 4⭐ for writing style I grew up in Indonesia, to Chinese Indonesian parents.

I have been progressively getting more and more dissatisfied with the grip Big Tech firms have over our collective lives, and have been gradually pruning my use of proprietary technologies over the past months.

Can’t believe I managed to spend more than a year without updating this blog!

It’s that time of the year again, and after a whirlwind 2018 - switching teams, a lot of work-related travel, and all those scandals in the news, it’s time to reflect on the year past and plan changes for the coming year ahead.

With the recent Google announcement that Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as insecure, it’s time to say farewell to GitHub Pages, which I switched to more than two years ago, and move to GitLab Pages.

Several months ago I discovered David R.

At Traveloka, Indonesia’s leading travel booking site, we use Phabricator for code reviews - and as a growing company it might not be straightforward to figure out who is knowledgeable about a particular part of the code base and thus would be a good revi…

I’ve been meaning to switch to a statically-generated blog for a while, and specifically to Cryogen hosted on GitHub Pages, for a combination of several reason: I am already writing my posts in Markdown for Ghost, and prior to that, Scriptogr.am Overhead…