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.

📚 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This article is pretty old, so be careful as its information could be out of date!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

4️⃣ four links

4 noteworthy links from this week: Let your code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyType: an excellent occasion to revisit type hinting in Python cats 1.0.0: for Scala-f-ists! Why TLS 1.3 isn’t in browsers yet: a big in-depth article about TLS Questions about Chatbots: a nice overview of this technology that is supposed to change the world ;)

December 28, 2017 · 1 min

🎯 Ansible Tips and Tricks

If you have been doing a bit of Ansible, there is probably some coding style that has emerged from your work, especially if you work in a team around the same code. During my time as an Ansible developer, I had the opportunity to collect some tips I use on a regular basis when writing scripts. These tips will probably help you save some time. I assume that you already know Ansible, Playbooks, YAML syntax and Ansible Galaxy roles....

February 27, 2017 · 10 min

5️⃣ five short links

Tech remote attack on an ODB dongle, follow-up of last week links: It was obvious this will lead to some dirty exploitation. on Recursion, Continuations and Trampolines, an excellent in-depth article that speaks about tail call optimization and all these way to avoid exhausting the stack. how r/places was built for reddit 1st of April event. Technical and inspiring. Real life challenges :) Culture a simple RPG rule system you can use anywhere....

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