I’ve been using Google Maps’ location history feature for a few years now. It’s a bit creepy to think about how much data Google has about me, but it’s also a goldmine for data analysis. Kindly en...

Electricity prices have been steadily rising in France for the past few years, with a particularly sharp increase since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This has led me to wonder...

This is the Burroughs C3155: It’s a charming old 1970s calculator rocking a VFD display and an ostensibly 1970s design. It’s also known, maybe more widely, as the Sharp QT-8D, of which it is a...

I recently came into possession of an Olivetti M24, a PC-compatible computer from the 80s. It’s a pretty cool machine from the time, featuring the venerable Intel 8086 CPU, a hard drive of unknow...

If you don’t care about the “History” part, you can skip directly to the technical part. A bit of history In the late 90s, Microsoft started working on a development platform supposed to repl...

I like Plex I use Plex to share my media with my friends and family. If you don’t know Plex, it’s a nifty tool that basically allows you to take a folder containing movies and TV shows, and shar...

I own a Logitech Z506 5.1 audio system. I bought it in 2014 and it’s been doing its job just fine since then. It looks like this: Audio is easy. It’s just an analog signal you transmit over a ...

What a time to be alive. GNU/NT is not a fever dream anymore, people actually play games on Linux, and—famously—the Windows ABI is actually the only stable ABI for Linux. Really, it’s something to ...

The Tweet The other day, Mathis Hammel tweeted this picture: This picture is a puzzle, or rather the solved version of a puzzle, available here on Pycto. If you don’t know Pycto, it’s a nice...

Adfly Skipper defines a property on window, called source. It’s only used for internal purposes. France’s IRS, in its decade-old authentication code, stores information in window.source. I’ve bee...