Guillaume Fortin-Debigaré

When you have an issue with a product or service and try to reach customer support for it, would you rather deal with a frustrating automated system designed to filter out callers, being constantly redirected from department to department without resoluti…

Back in 2011, I contacted Jamey Pittman, author of the excellent article The Pac-Man Dossier, because I wanted some help in order to figure out how the infamously-glitched 256th level of the original arcade version of Pac-Man actually worked during gamepl…

From a very young age, people learn how to interact with other people, and this learning experience continues through puberty and adulthood.

After having many years of experience running successful tabletop role-playing games with and without relying on prewritten scenarios, I was able to craft a successful formula to generate original, fun and engaging scenarios for the kind of rules-light ga…

The following are the rules of the Liar's Deck bluffing card game and its official variants, first introduced in the Liar's Bar video game.

Thanks to recent efforts, all major web browsers currently support MathML Core, a subset of MathML focused on important presentation markup, to support mathematics on the web.

Time to update your bookmarks!

It's hard to believe that it's been almost 8 years since I first posted on the ROMhacking.net forums a list of video game randomizers that I found online, and that it would evolve into the massive project it has become today, with almost 900 entries curre…

That's not what the law says.

I thought it would be fun to track the long list of video game that I have beaten and/or completed for reference, so I've done just that!

Back in 2006-07-08, during the 13th Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at McGill University, I presented a gambling game I designed with the novel property of being both advantageous to players and the house, and that despite this proprety, that

JSON is a common data serialization format to transmit information over the Internet.

The hype for generative AI is real.

Storing data.

The following is a compilation of pretty much every single mathematical topic that I learned throughout my life, covering topics from all levels of education, along with external links for each of them for quick reference.

In the history of obscure video game secrets, not many has been quite infamous as the SecretRoom.lua puzzle in 2014's computer hacking game Hack 'n' Slash by Double Fine.

Roaming throughout the countryside, dangerous desperados are awaiting in their hideout for the perfect opportunity to rob their victims in silence.

While there is no denying that Scrum revolutionized the software industry for the better, it may seem a little strange to read about someone that dislikes it despite strongly agreeing with the Agile Manifesto, considering the creator of Scrum was one of i…

How aligned are you with me?

Here are a few commands I crafted to validate and easily read API definitions in the OpenAPI format, using Docker and open source tools provided by Swagger.

The following is a collection of free international standards, registries and references that I collected throughout the years while developing websites and web services.

I crafted a tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) of the Super NES action-adventure game Illusion of Gaia (also known as Illusion of Time in Europe) which beats the game as fast as possible on the American version.

The following is a Python script developed by yours truly to generate a sector according to the core rulebook of the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition tabletop RPG, exactly as described in the Universe and World Creation chapter.

As I am continuing my personal journey into deep learning research and development, I wanted to try out PyTorch, a machine learning framework with GPU acceleration primarily designed for the Python programming language.

I'm a big fan of the Paranoia 25th Anniversary Edition comedy tabletop RPG, and I regularly act as a game master for that game on Roll20 with my regular play group in-between other tabletop RPG campaigns.

For about 2 years, I was not able to install any new software on my PlayStation Vita, for seemingly no reason.

"Everything must be done now.

Go is a popular board game that has been played for thousands of years.

This is a collection of all the secret hacking puzzles released between 2012 and 2015 related to the video game Hack 'n' Slash and its prototype.

Alternate reality games (ARGs) are interesting to review.

Last year, I wrote about multiple issues I encountered upon switching web hosts.

In 2017, Electronic Arts released Star Wars Battlefront II.

Configuring and Managing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is a beginner-friendly course about email security produced by yours truly.

Back when I was working at Eidos Montréal, part of my responsibilities included ensuring that the games we were producing for the Wii followed Nintendo's Wii Programming Guidelines.

Detective fiction, and particularly whodunits, have been really good at being engaging people in attempting to solving the mystery presented before the final reveal.

You can now watch yours truly explain the basics of quantum programming and how to execute a custom quantum program on the IBM Q Experience in less than 10 minutes!

For those that didn't notice, I've recently rebuilt my entire website from the ground up and switched web hosts from Ghost(Pro) to Netlify, and I learned a lot from the experience.

Ever got stuck playing a video game for hours without making any progress?

I'm a big fan of role-playing video games, especially Japanese-style ones, but there's a big restriction these games have: players have limited abilities to create their own stories in them due to programming restrictions.

Recently, two of my coworkers coincidentally asked me how I kept track of security news and vulnerabilities.

Are you in a loving relationship?

So far in my career I had to architect three different front end test automation solutions from scratch.

I've been finding a bunch of video game randomizers lately, so I decided to compile them all in one big list, which has become quite extensive thanks to the help of the gaming community.

What if you couldn't update personal data on the Internet you created and own?

After barter, gold-backed currencies and fiat currencies, the recent emergence of cryptocurrencies have disrupted the global economy.

Earlier this year, I had the chance to visit Alice & Smith, a small video game studio specialized in transmedia storytelling, and most notably known for the alternate reality game (ARG) The Black Watchmen.

Here's a story I've seen quite often in my career: a software product grows at a quick pace during the initial months of development, then at some point progress starts to slow down significantly until it reaches a point where a seemingly trivial change r…

It has now been 3 months since I was laid off and first tried becoming an entrepreneur.

A few months ago, I started to study deep learning, a branch in computer science heavily inspired by biology that allows programs to learn arbitrary concepts without explicit programming.

Both in my personal and professional life, I often have to deal with corrupted text data.