funky-storm.com source code released after 11 years 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

funky-storm.com was the first website I ever published online, 11 years ago. Blogs were something new and there was virtually no mature open-source publishing platform, apart forums. Without any other...

Luigi 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

Phorum 3.x to WordPress migration script 8 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

Before Cool Cavemen, there was Funky Storm. The band is long gone but I still keep an online presence as a sort of web memorial. Recently I added there an old copy of the forum. The original forum wa...

Plumage 0.2 released 24 Jul 2013 | 03:46 pm

I've just made the specific design of the blog you're currently reading into a generic theme for Pelican. This theme now has a name: Plumage. It also has its own dedicated repository on GitHub. You'r...

Compile BFGMiner for scrypt-based CPU mining 7 Jul 2013 | 03:32 pm

I wanted to try mining on my Kubuntu 13.04. Not to get rich, but simply to verify that the production of crypto-currencies really was decentralized, and also to learn how-to mine. I first tried minin...

How-to keep natural glitches from videos 1 Jul 2013 | 03:48 pm

In my ultimate attempt to recover the archives I lost some years ago in a RAID-5 crash, I managed to save some images and videos. But most files, if not all, were heavily corrupted. Some of the natur...

Git fatal error: invalid date format: 0 +0000 23 Jun 2013 | 03:48 pm

Moving maildir-deduplicate.py to its own repository was tricky, as I wanted to keep the commit history. I followed my old notes from a previous article and started the migration process: But I didn'...

Fix big HTML table rendering in IE 17 Jun 2013 | 03:32 pm

It is well-known since the burst of the dot-com bubble that tables are bad for layout. But tables still makes perfect sense to present huge quantities of tabular data. The thing is, Internet Explorer...

Support La Quadrature du Net ! 9 Jun 2013 | 03:41 pm

6 months ago I gave 100€ to La Quadrature du Net. It's an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. Its reputation is well established and its actions are internati...

maildir-deduplicate.py moved to its own repository 4 Jun 2013 | 03:48 pm

In 2010 I created maildir-deduplicate.py, a one-of script to detect and remove duplicate copies of emails. Since then, Adam added loads of features and refinements to it, promoting himself to the de-...