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June 2022: go-harmony and earmuff
·2070 words·10 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
TL;DR: did a lot of music, even while writing code. Code-unrelated work # As last month, I’ll start with code-unrelated work !
First, here’s my progress on learning Hyunsoo Lee’s adaptation of Bach’s Air on G string, still not quite right and with some missing parts but… slowly getting there:
May 2022: yet again, tons of plakar stuff
·4544 words·22 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: tons of plakar work, most notably on indexes, performances, clone & sync and fuse. Code-unrelated work # I’ll start with code unrelated work !
April 2022: plakar.io, plakar refactor and ssh support
·2453 words·12 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: I refactored internal structures to split metadata from the index, implemented an stdio server and finally added SSH support. The plakar.io website # A project needs a website so… I published the plakar.
April 2022: plakar keys and UI stuff
·1516 words·8 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: I did key and UI stuff, mostly search related. There’s going to be plenty of images in this post. Reworked plakar keys # I won’t expand much on that as I’m not done yet, but I spent a couple days reworking the way plakar handles keys for encrypted repositories.
March 2022: plakar clone and plakar sync
·820 words·4 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
Plakar
Backups
TL;DR: implemented cloning and synchronization between plakar repositories Slacked a bit # Shortly after I published my yearly retrospective, I was hit with two highly annoying personal issues that kept me very busy these last two months.
Farewell 2021, Welcome 2022: a personal post
·1546 words·8 mins
Gilles Chehade
Personal
TL;DR: A retrospective of 2021 2021 was a good year overall # Pandemic and lock-downs set aside, 2021 was a good year overall.
I’ve really enjoyed my daytime job, my physical health was fine, my mental health was… meh… but ok, I guess.