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.
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Coding isn’t just what I do, it’s who I am. 🖥️
A small recipe that can be useful for the curious people. A .dlm file is a gzip-compressed tar archive containing two files that Synology’s Download Station uses to search torrent sites. Archive Structure my_plugin.dlm (tar.gz) ├── INFO # Plugin metadata (JSON) └── search.php # Search logic (PHP class) INFO File A JSON file describing the plugin. Example: { "name": "my_plugin", "displayname": "My Torrent Site", "description": "Search torrents on example.com", "version": "1.0", "site": "https://example.com/", "module": "search.php", "type": "search", "class": "SynoDLMSearchMyPlugin" } Fields Field Required Description name Yes Internal identifier (no spaces) displayname Yes Name shown in Download Station UI description Yes Short description version Yes Plugin version string site Yes URL of the torrent site module Yes PHP filename (always search.php) type Yes Always search class Yes PHP class name — must match exactly in both files accountsupport No true if the site requires login (changes prepare() signature) search.php A PHP class implementing two required methods: prepare() and parse(). ...
We had a Lynx from Atari when we were young. Well, correction, my brother had a Lynx and I was just a guest there. But nevertheless, it was an amazing console we enjoyed a lot until the AC adapter started wiggling and finally broke (I think). All the difficulty was to keep enough battery on the way to BTZ when playing in the car (the car cigarette lighter was maybe not that great, I’m not sure I remember well…). ...
Ce que je lis…
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. ...
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: ...
Un vaisseau pour sauver l’humanité, vraiment ?
Un Zorro modernisé… mais sans le sergent Garcia.
Ce que je lis en ce moment
A few links for the summer
Où l’on découvre avec émerveillement Anna’s Archive