Separate Concerns

“Thoughts & Links” are posts mixing topics on my mind and interesting things I have read recently.

Note: Yes I use em-dashes when I write, and no this is not AI.

How do you scale yourself?

I believe that most homes in the developed world will have a domestic multipurpose — probably humanoid — robot in 10 years.

“Thoughts & Links” are posts mixing topics on my mind and interesting things I have read recently.

“Thoughts & Links” are posts mixing topics on my mind and interesting things I have read recently.

Note: Yes, I use em-dashes when I write, and no, this is not AI.

It’s been that time of the year, again.

“Thoughts & Links” are posts mixing topics on my mind and interesting things I have read recently.

Yes, I have written about this recently, but it has changed so much that it warrants an update.

I live in France, I work on AI, and I am worried.

This post is inspired by a similar post by Sean Goedecke.

Since 2017 I have maintained a short list in a file called BELIEFS.md.

“Thoughts & Links” are posts mixing topics on my mind and interesting things I have read recently.

Note: Yes I use em-dashes when I write, and no this is not AI.

The rapid evolution of AI makes me change my mind often regarding its future evolution.

“Thoughts & Links” are posts mixing topics on my mind and interesting things I have read recently.

There is an Ivan Illich quote that I often see in French, for instance in Pierre Pezziardi’s LinkedIn banner: L’outil simple, pauvre, transparent est un humble serviteur ; l’outil élaboré, complexe, secret est un maître arrogant.

I am attending FOSDEM in Brussels for the 13th time physically.

This is just a short post to describe how I use the Teal language server.

I started my professional career almost 15 years ago working for a Machine Learning / Computer Vision company that did image recognition on mobile.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

If you prefer, the code for this article is also available in a gist.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

Last weekend I attended my 12th FOSDEM, not counting the two years of “remote FOSDEM” due to COVID.

Warning: this post includes some spoilers for The Talos Principle 1 and 2.

Since I’m back in AI, a recurring question has been whether we are collectively automating ourselves — software engineers and other kinds of tech people — out of our jobs.

You can only claim to be contrarian if people actually defend the opposite viewpoint.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

The Three Little Pigs is a popular bedtime story, but it strikes me as unrealistic and not teaching the right lesson.

When I interview software developers, I usually ask some variation of the following questions: What Software Engineering practices do you consider critical to achieve your objectives?

Ten years ago, I started a French-speaking mailing list about Lua.

I have done that three times now, so it is time to make a quick blog post about it.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

Over 10 years ago, I created this blog and wrote the static generator that powers it.

It’s been a week since I left Inch, and now it is time to disclose what I am up to.

In two weeks, I will no longer be an Inch employee.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

When I was hired at Inch my “official” position quickly became an issue.

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind.

“Thoughts” are posts that relate to things that have been on my mind recently.

Today I attended Lua Workshop, and Roberto Ierusalimschy’s keynote was about Pallene, a language designed as a system counterpart to Lua in a scripting architecture.

In the list of application architecture patterns I like to use, Dependency Injection comes rather high.

Here I want to discuss a system design pattern that I call “push-to-poll”; if it has another name I am not aware of it.

I have wanted to play with Gemini for while now, so today being the first day of FOSDEM I decided to do what I would have done if I was in Brussels and hack on something between two talks.

Over the years, I have accumulated links to blog posts I intend to re-read every time find myself in a position to influence the early stage of a company.

I have been working at Inch for about a year and a half now, so I thought it was a good time to write a bit about what I do there.

When I updated my Linux kernel to 5.11 I had the bad surprise to end up with a blinking underscore on reboot.

I haven’t posted anything here for 6 months so I thought it would be a good idea to post a personal news update before the end of 2020.