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2023

Plakar: vfs importer interface
·1586 words·8 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I reworked the virtual filesystem layer in plakar, making it possible to write custom importers of data: use plakar to backup an s3 bucket, for instance.
Plakar: snapshot forking and tagging
·2064 words·10 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: plakar gained two minor features, snapshots fork-ing and snapshots tagging, which makes it possible to unlock several major new features in a relatively short future.
Implementing a system call for OpenBSD
·3090 words·15 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology kernel C OpenBSD
TL;DR: I found a printed copy of an assignment I had to do in 2005 back when I was a student to implement a system call for OpenBSD and Linux.
Meet ChatGPT, the New AI Sidekick Helping Gilles!
·616 words·3 mins
GPT-4
technology
TL;DR: ChatGPT, an AI developed by OpenAI, is joining the poolp.org tech blog to serve as a proofreader and content enricher for articles written by human authors.
2023-Q2: music, unity, xgb, jujulang, setdb and opensmtpd
·2188 words·11 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: music and unity training, a bit of X programming in Go, began a journey in Jujulang a new languae, wrote a PoC set database called setdb, did some minor OpenSMTPD stuff.
March 2023: Melodya, MHL, MIDI-csv and more...
·918 words·5 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: I played with MIDI and ChatGPT. Code-unrelated work # I began a few week ago a certified training in music production which I’ll be attending for a couple weeks still, and I’ll be sharing here some of the things I work on.

2022

December 2022: some more earmuff and go-harmony
·3408 words·16 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: I worked on earmuff and go-harmony, I played with ChatGPT. Re-focusing on go-harmony # As you may have read from my previous post, I have spent some time porting go-harmony to the Dart language and playing with Flutter to build apps that used dart-harmony.
November 2022: feedchain, go-harmony, dart-harmony and harmonee
·1828 words·9 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: busy month, did a lot of non tech stuff, but also worked on a new project called feedchain, fixed issues and added new features to go-harmony, and started two projects called dart-harmony and harmonee, both related to music.
Feedchain is a standalone news feed project
·2492 words·12 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: I implemented a file format to support a standalone feed of news similar to what I have on Twitter, as well as a proof of concept code for a reader, a writer, a publishing node, and some more.
October 2022: blog comments, a bit of plakar and the streamchain project
·1389 words·7 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: added comments support to the blog, did some music and hypnosis projects, fixed a few bugs in plakar and began a new toy project.
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