blog 2025-12-07T14:14:20Z https://sgauthier.fr/blog/atom.xml https://sgauthier.fr/blog/jsbs.html 2025-12-07T14:13:59Z 2025-12-07T14:13:59Z Sylvain Gauthier

The time of the year has come where I feel like blowing off some steam by impotently shaking my fists at the sad state of so-called "modern" web. You know, the bloated ad-ridden mess that you now *have* to navigate for things as simple and basic as paying a damn bill.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sailing_broken_bay_sydney.html 2024-01-14T21:53:30Z 2024-01-14T22:07:20Z Sylvain Gauthier

Back in June 2023, I bought a 26 foot sail boat for a relatively modest price. When I got it, it was berthed in Akuna Bay marina, in Broken Bay north of Sydney.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sndc2.html 2023-12-26T15:54:53Z 2023-12-26T15:54:53Z Sylvain Gauthier

My little sound/music compiler, SNDC, is now in a solid enough state to declare it release-ready.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/c_types.html 2023-04-28T23:31:36Z 2023-04-28T23:41:14Z Sylvain Gauthier

I recently stumbled upon a blog article that was basically saying "stop using variable width types in C", meaning `int`, `long int`, `unsigned int`, `char` etc. The argument was so idiotic that frankly, I need to blog about it to sleep better at night.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/chroot.html 2023-02-21T21:53:36Z 2023-02-21T23:15:24Z Sylvain Gauthier

Here is a simple way to containerize your program into a directory, that is more secure than `chroot` because it uses `pivot_root` and doesn't require root privileges thanks to Linux' namespaces.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/rigourous_c_coding.html 2023-01-06T19:09:11Z 2023-01-06T19:09:11Z Sylvain Gauthier

No one asked but here is the way I write C code in a way that I think is pretty rigorous and thorough, and leads to good and clean software that will always have predictable outcomes even when the code gets large or when the weirdest errors happen.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/threads.html 2022-10-20T19:57:38Z 2022-10-20T19:57:38Z Sylvain Gauthier


https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sndc.html 2022-03-29T20:51:02Z 2022-04-02T14:40:39Z Sylvain Gauthier

[sndc](https://pedantic.software/git/sndc) is a sound compiler a bit like LaTeX is a document compiler. You give it a `.sndc` file and it will output a sound from it, always the same sound bit for bit on any machine regardless of the processing power.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/weiqi_release_1.html 2022-03-24T11:10:31Z 2022-04-02T10:33:39Z Sylvain Gauthier

After working on it for about a year and a half, I got around to make a first (very much alpha) binary release of my Go 3D interface named `weiqi`.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/bump_maps.html 2022-01-01T17:43:40Z 2022-01-01T17:43:40Z Sylvain Gauthier

## What's a bump map

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_3_sfeed.html 2021-11-01T19:13:26Z 2021-11-01T19:13:26Z Sylvain Gauthier

Recently (like a few months ago), I had the unpleasant surprise to see that `newsboat`, my okay-ish terminal based feed reader, had been rewritten in Rust. Of course, because of the abomination that is `cargo`, this also meant that the build was broken on Gentoo, so I decided to switch to the excellent [sfeed](https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html), a minimal, modular RSS/atom parser.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/china-vax.html 2021-09-15T21:33:16Z 2022-03-24T11:49:33Z Sylvain Gauthier

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https://sgauthier.fr/blog/qirc.html 2021-09-12T19:57:13Z 2021-10-09T13:36:28Z Sylvain Gauthier

New project just out of the oven, [qirc](https://pedantic.software/git/qirc/about) is the result of my angry fist shaking at cloud-based Go playing platforms.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/hosts.html 2021-08-01T22:10:07Z 2021-08-13T20:57:58Z Sylvain Gauthier

The Internet is a fantastic tool but it's also the worst time sink ever created by humans. The last 25 years have seen web devs iterating tirelessly over their designs, with strong financial incentives, to make their CSS/javascript-bloated, resource hungry obese web pages even more addictive to scroll through.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/ldjam48.html 2021-04-30T21:06:10Z 2021-05-23T12:17:18Z Sylvain Gauthier


https://sgauthier.fr/blog/game_of_go.html 2021-02-22T08:54:59Z 2021-11-16T23:13:40Z Sylvain Gauthier

Go is a fascinating board game. It has been around for more than 4000 years since its invention in ancient China, yet we are still light years away from grasping its complexity, and it has only been five years at the time of this article that computers got a bit further than us in mastering it.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_2_choice.html 2021-01-23T16:45:55Z 2022-02-04T14:51:53Z Sylvain Gauthier

In [my last post](minimalism_1_dmenu.html) I talked about `dmenu` and presented a few of its applications that I use regularly.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_1_dmenu.html 2021-01-16T22:26:59Z 2021-01-17T12:24:26Z Sylvain Gauthier

I have been using [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) as my only window manager for quite a while now, and it happens to ship with a very convenient utility called `dmenu`. The purpose of this utility might seem trivial and useless to people not familiar with the UNIX philosophy, but as with most UNIX things, it's precisely its simplicity that makes its strength.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/randonnee_au_mont_otake.html 2018-05-26T12:37:00Z 2018-05-26T12:37:00Z Sylvain Gauthier

Dimanche dernier nous -le même groupe que la dernière fois moins l'ami japonais- sommes repartis randonner, cette fois pour un trajet un peu plus ambitieux.

https://sgauthier.fr/blog/randonnee_a_sagamiko.html 2018-05-07T16:01:00Z 2018-05-07T16:01:00Z Sylvain Gauthier

Vendredi, trois de mes collègues (deux Suisses et un Allemand), un ami japonais et moi-même avons été randonner à l'ouest de Tokyo, autour d'un village qui s'appelle Sagamiko.