Garbage Collector

 

Linux explained part 1 - History and basic concepts

On this blog, I’ve wrote some articles about Linux. But maybe you’re not entirely familiar with the lowest layers of the Linux distributions. I’ll propose you a little series of articles about Linux, its history, what is the Linux Kernel, the concept of Linux distribution, what are the filesystem permissions, etc. This first article will cover the general informations about Linux : what is it, its history, and what is a Linux Distribution.

February 4, 2023 - 8 minutes read time

 

The EDPB adopts the final report of the cookie banner recommendations

Between May 2021 and August 2022, 18 European data protection authorities (DPA) received several hundred of complaints from NOYB regarding the design of the cookies banners. A coordinated task force between the DPAs, piloted by the French authority La CNIL and its Austrian counterpart, the DSB, ended-up after 13 meetings by the production of a report containing various recommendations for designing a cookie banner. I propose here a summary of my understanding of this report.

January 20, 2023 - 8 minutes read time

 

I'm tired of companies thinking we're buddies

There is a virus in France that infect more and more companies… Inverting the T-V distinction with their customers. In French, there are two pronouns for addressing to somebody : tu or vous (based on latin tu and vos). Tu is usually for family, friends, coworkers, classmates, and any kind of close people. Meanwhile vous is for a more respectful approach, talking with a stranger, a boss, or somebody you don’t know.

January 17, 2023 - 3 minutes read time

 

Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XV is an action RPG developed and published by Square Enix. Its first release was on Playstation 4 / Xbox One in 2016, then the game as been ported on Microsoft Windows in 2018. Initially, FF XV was known as Final Fantasy versus XIII and developed during the Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy project (the FF XIII universe). It’s first images appeared on 2006 and the game was scheduled for Playstation 3.

January 15, 2023 - 12 minutes read time

 

New device ? Don't forget to clear the old one !

If I don’t do any mistake, recently it was Christmas and the social convention wants to have people offering consumer goods to others. Among these consumer goods there are a lot of electronic devices like smartphones, tablets, or computers. You may had received a new one and you’re happy with it. You may also want to sell, give, or if any other possibilities are available, trash your previous model. But, don’t do it to fast !

December 26, 2022 - 3 minutes read time

 

The alternative front-ends to centralized online services

If sometimes you need to consult or follow a content available on a centralized platform like Youtube or Twitter but you’re worried about your privacy ? Or you don’t want to create an account for this specific requirement ? To do so, you can use an alternative front-end to these services. I’ve quickly talked about them in my article Why would I need something else than RSS ? but let’s develop the idea.

December 25, 2022 - 5 minutes read time

 

Terraform your CICD Toolchain : SonarQube

So, in the previous article we’ve Terraformed GitHub (that must hurt), so let’s continue with another tool commonly used in a CICD process : SonarQube. For a brief introduction in case you don’t know this tool, SonarQube (or SonarCloud for its SaaS version) is an open-source software published under LGPL v3 made for Static Code Analysis having both free and paid Enterprise plans. Basically, SonarQube will analyse the source code, use a big set of rules associated to the language, and throw issues if it found bugs, regressions, security hotspots, duplicated code lines, code test coverage, or code smells.

December 23, 2022 - 3 minutes read time

 

Terraform your CICD Toolchain : GitHub

When you’re running and managing the CICD Toolchain of a big organization, you may want to establish some conventions and usage rules to avoid having to manage a big inconsistent mess. One possibility to avoid this, after you had established your various naming conventions and usages, is to use Terraform to maintain all of the objects constitutes your application projects. For example, if your application’s sources are hosted on GitHub, using Actions for the build and SonarQube for the code quality analysis, you have to maintain both services : the repositories, the accesses, and the SonarQube project.

December 18, 2022 - 6 minutes read time

 

Idées Noires

Idées noires, translated as Franquin’s Last Laugh in English, is a collection of Black Comedy comic strips drawn by André Franquin, written by Franquin and Yann Delporte in 1977. After its cancellation in the Spirou Magazine supplement Le Trombone Illustré, the series has been continued in Fluide Glacial until 1983. Franquin created Idées noires while he was suffering himself from depression. The drawing style is far more simple and pure than Franquin’s usual work, using black and white colors and characters drawn as shadowed figures.

December 13, 2022 - 3 minutes read time

 

Bayonetta 3

Third entry in our series of articles about Bayonetta, we’re now talking about the third game, Bayonetta 3, still developed by PlatinumGames and edited by Nintendo, released on October 2022 for Nintendo Switch. Announced in 2017, the game development took a lot of time with a very few news about it, and finally showed some images in 2021 during a trailer with its titular Witch saying “Sorry, I’m terribly late”.

December 9, 2022 - 5 minutes read time