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  • Trying the second most popular option. - Honestly, I never really liked the idea of beeing like everyone else. I also hate ads and software bloat. I'm now trying to systematically find less obvious solution to each of my online needs, and there has been ups and down.
  • Improving my i3 keyboard shortcuts for daily notes - For a while now, i've had those two lines in my i3 config
  • The price of the cloud - I run an app (ciboulette.net) in the cloud. This app generates about 1000 € / month of revenues. I try to run it
  • Slow deploys of meteor apps are not a fatality - I've been developing a meteor app since 2015 now, and the production deployments have always been quite slow, around 15 minutes.
  • Introducting NanoSheets, a spreadsheets library in 2.5KB of JS - A while ago I made a small tool called importabular, that would help me import data into ciboulette.net
  • 2024 update - Long time no see ! I haven't posted much in the last year, mostly because I couldn't find a way to edit the site. Publii can be confusing at times.
  • Integrating remote services in e2e tests - Ciboulette.net has a large battery of tests that ensure I don't break too many things when doing a deployment. The app also connects together many services, like google maps, google custom search, Stripe and Sumup.
  • 2023 update - In 2022 in got a new job at Della AI and moved to Nantes. I focused less on ciboulette.net than before, and had less time for side project.
  • Picnic: end-to-end encrypted collaborative text editor - I felt like having a small break from my main project this month, so I'm giving myself some weeks to try out other ideas I've been putting off. Just happy coding of open source MVPs for various ideas I've had for a while. I'm giving myself a max of 7 days per app to make sure the scope stays reasonable.
  • One liner to watch the current folder and tree its structure - I've been working with smstools3 which uses a folder and its subfolder as its state store.
  • Github action to check for TODOs and FIXMEs - I had some TODO and FIXME instructions in random locations in my code that served no purpose, as I was never looking for them. I also use "console.log" for temporary debug logs that should be removed in production.
  • Configuring i3 for headful e2e tests - i3 is nice. End to end tests are nice. Chromium is nice. But they don't get along so well by default.
  • Meteor lags ? Aggregates to the rescue ! - My app has 4 main collections in mongo :
  • Javascript minification with sed - I added a few of my projects to https://1mb.club/. I'm not sure what for, but eh, it's free link estate !
  • Be careful what you ping for - I have a setup to know when my main app, ciboulette.net, is down.
  • Customizing the look of Publii - I really like the look of the default Publii theme, however some modifications weren't quite working using the in-app options. I wanted this website to have a very low level of interactivity, i don't need a mobile hamburger menu for 2 short entries (code & life).
  • Automating local backups of DO MUP on Ubuntu - I've migrated my main project, from Heroku to Digital Ocean, with the help of the awesome meteor up tool.
  • Documenting systems - Back when I was working at virtualQ, I had to do some documentation. At first I didn't quite enjoy it, feeling like this was a chore. But documenting a system can be a very interesting task. I also had to explain our systems to new hires after we raised some funds and quickly grew the team.
  • Giving Publii a try - As a web developer, I've created some websites for family and friends. My default tool for that was WordPress, because you could easily set them up, pick a theme, mess with the CSS a bit and let them write the content.