technology

<p>Hey,</p> I wanted to publish something last Friday but I unfortunately got my hands on a copy of Super Nintendo's Zelda which led to an instant loss of motivation.

OHAI, I was unable to write a story last week as my desk broke into pieces for no apparent reason but my foot hitting it accidentally.

<p>OHAI,</p> This week has been crazy, my brain melted a little as I worked on filters, it melted a little as I worked on LDAP and it melted a little more as I tried to trick Eric into working on filters with me (yes, that actually worked :-).

OHAI, This week I had intended to work on filters. After 3 days of pain and swearing, even though it did move forward, I finally decided to step back for a few days and work on something else to preserve my sanity.

OHAI, First of all, on a completely unrelated note, I’d like to emphasize that this blog post is being written from my text editor launched by a little shell and pushed to poolp using the Ocean API.

Almost a month since my last post… I know, I know. So I left my position at Scality two weeks ago. I had been there for a year and a half working on a very interesting and tricky project.

The crypto backend that has been committed a couple days ago started a little discussion and it was decided to switch the default cipher from Blowfish to AES-128 and make it a default.

A few days ago, Charles committed the compress_backend API which allowed transparent deflation/inflation of envelopes and messages as they hit the queue. The compression code is executed before the queue_backend gets the data so that any queue_backend can benefit transparently from compression without having to add any code to handle it.

Howdie, Eric and I had planned a loooooong time ago to have a hackathon this week-end. However, some asshole piece of shit ran into my car while it was parked, made it unable to take the road and flee without leaving a note.

It’s been over a month since my last post but I have an excuse: I was super busy, then I was super on vacation … but I’m back again ;-)