Welcome to my site!

Hello, This is Pierre Baillet’s homepage. A place where I write less often than I would like. I’m an old programmer that’s been coding since he was young (started on Atari ST with GFA-Basic) and still loves coding. This inner fire is still burning and pushes me to write a lot of unfinished and slightly broken projects that run in production for my use or tend to die after a while.

📙 Rebuilding Computer Lib

Computer Lib - Dream Machines is a book by Ted Nelson. After I was introduced to the book, I became obsessed by the amazing layout and style of the book, that reminded me a bit of the style of why the lucky stiff’s Poignant Guide. I have pulled the PDF, reordered it to have its two parts correctly. Then I extracted all text with a simple OCR engine. A Scanned text sample Bad scanned text can be rebuilt using ChatGPT before final proofing:...

September 4, 2024 · 2 min

🚀 Arca ou la nouvelle Eden

Un vaisseau pour sauver l’humanité, vraiment ?

August 31, 2024 · 1 min

⚔️ Zorro - d'entre les morts

Un Zorro modernisé… mais sans le sergent Garcia.

August 29, 2024 · 1 min

📚 Lecture d'été

Ce que je lis en ce moment

August 18, 2023 · 2 min

🔆 Summer 2023 - links

A few links for the summer

August 2, 2023 · 1 min

🏴‍☠️ Anna's Archive

Où l’on découvre avec émerveillement Anna’s Archive

July 1, 2023 · 1 min

🚘 Remote: my setup

Just like The Setup, but more amateur.

June 29, 2022 · 4 min

🏢 Hiring at Datadog

Hiring is tough. This article describes my interviewer’s experience at Datadog.

June 26, 2022 · 9 min

🚮 The Ad Blocking Problem

How I’m currently blocking Ads at home, and why? In this article, I’m writing about the various solutions I’ve recently explored to block ads and I also describe the solution I’m currently using! Pi-hole Pi-hole is a cool open source project to block ads on your whole network. You set this up on a small Raspberry Pi (hence the name, heh), and then reconfigure your internet to use the pi-hole as your primary DNS, it will then nuke carefully all DNS requests sent to this tracking and ads endpoint....

January 23, 2022 · 3 min

🚨 Git GPG and notifications

This article is pretty old, so be careful as its information could be out of date! this article is for macOS only. If you use git and gpg to sign your commits, then you’re probably used to sign you commits using a physical key that you have to insert and press with your finger when you are creating a commit. Unfortunately, there is no visible feedback in the console when git awaits for a yubikey touch and this means that you can sometime miss these....

March 30, 2021 · 2 min