Recent Posts

Setup up a Bitcoin Lightning point of sale in Common Lisp
Because I can, I recently added support for testnet Bitcoin Lightning payments into this website. The beauty of Freedom and privacy respecting software is that you can do anything you want with it.
Mar 30, 2023 26 min read
Setup up a Bitcoin Lightning point of sale in Common Lisp
Bitcoin is art
Bitcoin is this strange thing I don’t fully understand. Going down the rabbit hole, as it is commonly known, I generally feel disappointed. Whenever I meet a bitcoiner, it is always a fanatic insisting that I buy bitcoin instead of a supportive mentor.
Mar 24, 2023 7 min read thoughts
Bitcoin is art
Why colorize terminal output when you can colorize on the reader?
Colorful text is a must, because we are visual creatures. We process shapes and colors way better than symbols. Confronted to a screen full of text, it is hard to make sense of it, without meaningful coloring.
Nov 29, 2022 5 min read
Why colorize terminal output when you can colorize on the reader?
Preventing the collapse of civilization
I stumbled upon this talk by Jonathan Blow on YouTube and I must share it. Civilizations flourish thanks to the technologies they invent. Yet those same technological achievements get lost because the same civilizations that created them fail or at least they fail to propagate them to the future.
Aug 19, 2022 2 min read thoughts
Preventing the collapse of civilization
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Projects

I work on

cardano.el
An Emacs interface to the Cardano node. It replaces the CLI, lets you craft any complex transaction and can even be your wallet.
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cardano.el
Delightful Dying
An alternative take on life and dead planing. Live joyfully, leave joyfully.
Delightful Dying
Org-cv
Org-mode backend exporters for generating a Curriculum Vita using some \(\LaTeX\) templates.
Code
Org-cv
Sphinx-Gallery
Sphinx-Gallery is a Sphinx extension that builds an HTML gallery of examples from any set of Python scripts.
Code
Sphinx-Gallery

Recent & Upcoming Talks

My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate
In this workshop I teach how to use the sovereign project. A set of Ansible playbooks that you use to build and maintain you own personal cloud entirely based on open source projects.
Last updated on Sep 8, 2020
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My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate
English - The torture of the conqueror
This is a short humorous speech for the Wordstock Festival. I go over the hurdles of learning English as a foreign language and all those language quirks.
Last updated on Jun 1, 2020
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English - The torture of the conqueror
Monitoring bees and more
Held in German, this talk shows how to use Checkmk and about an interesting use case about it flexibility when it is configured to monitory bee colonies and their honey production.
Last updated on Jun 1, 2020
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