https://sgauthier.fr/blog blog https://sgauthier.fr/blog/jsbs.html https://sgauthier.fr/blog/jsbs.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:13:59 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sailing_broken_bay_sydney.html Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:53:30 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sndc2.html Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:54:53 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/c_types.html Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:31:36 +1000 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/chroot.html Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:53:36 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/rigourous_c_coding.html Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:09:11 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/threads.html Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:57:38 +1100  https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sndc.html https://sgauthier.fr/blog/sndc.html Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:51:02 +1100 [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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/weiqi_release_1.html Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:10:31 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/bump_maps.html Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:43:40 +1100 ## What's a bump map https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_3_sfeed.html https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_3_sfeed.html Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:13:26 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/china-vax.html Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:33:16 +1000 ### EDIT on 2022-03-24: https://sgauthier.fr/blog/qirc.html https://sgauthier.fr/blog/qirc.html Sun, 12 Sep 2021 19:57:13 +1000 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/hosts.html Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:10:07 +1000 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/ldjam48.html Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:06:10 +1000  https://sgauthier.fr/blog/game_of_go.html https://sgauthier.fr/blog/game_of_go.html Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:54:59 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_2_choice.html Sat, 23 Jan 2021 16:45:55 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/minimalism_1_dmenu.html Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:26:59 +1100 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/randonnee_au_mont_otake.html Sat, 26 May 2018 12:37:00 +0900 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 https://sgauthier.fr/blog/randonnee_a_sagamiko.html Mon, 07 May 2018 16:01:00 +0900 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.