Welcome to my site!

I’m Pierre Baillet (aka Oct), a programmer who’s been in love with coding since my early days tinkering with an Atari ST and GFA-Basic.

My digital playground is a bit chaotic - I create projects that are part passion, part experiment. Some stick around in production, some quietly fade away. But that’s the beauty of coding, right? Always exploring, always learning.

What you’ll find here:

Bits of code and tech musings,
Projects that are more “works in progress” than polished gems
Thoughts shared in both English and French 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Welcome to my little corner of the internet - where imperfect code meets endless curiosity!

Coding isn’t just what I do, it’s who I am. 🖥️

📚 Lecture

Ce que je lis…

💬 Devoxx FR 2025

Devoxx 2025 Un petit résumé des conférences Devoxx auxquelles j’ai pu assister cette année. Iceberg Bertrand PAQUET nous présente Iceberg, un format de stockage qui utilise AVRO et Parquet pour fournir des fonctionnalités uniques dans le domaine du traitement de données. Ce format permet de faire des analytics simplement sur des gros volumes de données. Par rapport à ce que nous utilisons à $WORK, cela semble être un format très prometteur et qui pourrait nous servir à l’avenir. ...

📙 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: ...

🚀 Arca ou la nouvelle Eden

Un vaisseau pour sauver l’humanité, vraiment ?

⚔️ Zorro - d'entre les morts

Un Zorro modernisé… mais sans le sergent Garcia.

📚 Lecture d'été

Ce que je lis en ce moment

🔆 Summer 2023 - links

A few links for the summer

🏴‍☠️ Anna's Archive

Où l’on découvre avec émerveillement Anna’s Archive

🚘 Remote: my setup

Just like The Setup, but more amateur.

🏢 Hiring at Datadog

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