Aymeric on Software

Unless you’ve been keeping your head in the sand, you may have heard of Shai-Hulud.

Today marks the first time everything I host on the Internet has moved away from a dedicated Linux VPS.

Let’s get the elephant out of the room: 2020 has been a very different kind of year because of the COVID-19 crisis.

Why I Use Firefox I have used Firefox since the very beginning on Windows.

This blog is now powered by Hugo, a static page generator, and features a refreshed look.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you may have noticed that Microsoft has been iterating at a furious pace on their .NET Core initiative for the past two years.

The Objectives One of the major hurdles hampering the deployment of HTTPS on smaller websites like this one, has always been the price of certificates.

Originally, this website was powered by a shared hosting plan on Dreamhost, but I migrated to a fully hosted solution over a year ago.

The Problem As I have explained in great details in a previous post, the balance of a Bitcoin wallet differs from the balance that can be computed by looking at the blockchain.

HFS+ is a terribly old filesystem with serious flaws.

If you look at a website like blockchain.info or blockexplorer.com, you may notice it is possible to find out the details about a particular bitcoin address, such as the last transactions and of course the balance.

Over a year ago, I read an article on Mockyblog about storing your personal data on a HP ProLiant MicroServer.

On June 11th 2013, Twitter shut down the old 1.0 API and the Twitter sidebar widget of Octopress, the software that powers this blog, suddenly stopped working.

There are many conflicting approaches to object oriented programming in JavaScript.

Mechanical spinning disks and modern SSDs are fallible components.

This site came up in February 2009, and has been running the same version of Wordpress (unpatched obviously), with an old theme from Neoease.

Today I was asked to come up with a set of guidelines to help a junior developer.

I am not a security specialist, but I would have thought that by now, one year after the humiliating hack of Sony Pictures by LulzSec, people would have learned how to handle passwords properly.

The Problem Have you ever noticed some strange behavior when you resize a WebView hosting resizable Flash content?

What are Disk Images Disk Images have always been popular on the Mac.

Rationale My company has set up a VPN access that can be used from home.

I have not been blogging a lot lately.

Today I learned a new trick.

For a custom installer application, I have been working on a crude but efficient way to determine whether a particular version of the C runtime (CRT) needs to be installed or not.

I guess this is hardly news to anyone but me, since I have not written a single line of Java for the past 4 years, but apparently Xcode has dropped the support for Java projects.

This column is in no way revolutionary.

Today, after 4 days of work, I have finally fixed a bug.

The Problem Today, my colleague and I, have found a bug in OpenSceneGraph.

How NOT to use WM_SETICON It’s not rocket science, but you’d be surprised to see how many people get this wrong.

I have a project with a large repository, which contains a lot of ThirdParty sources and binaries, that are seldom updated.

Apple states that the iPhone SDK should only be used on Intel Macs.

I set up email on my phone and, even though I did not receive that many spams, it was more annoying than on a computer.

It should not be possible, but it is… sort of.