Posts
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.
Building my own guitar, part 4
·325 words·2 mins
Gilles Chehade
music
guitar
diy
TL;DR: Came back from vacation, started working on the neck but realised I really needed more tools. Luckily, I could get some that weren’t too expensive.
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.
Building my own guitar, part 3
·754 words·4 mins
Gilles Chehade
music
guitar
diy
TL;DR: Received the new neck and… it fits perfectly ! The neck # UPS just delivered the new neck, which is a 24 frets PRS clone:
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.
Building my own guitar, part 2
·385 words·2 mins
Gilles Chehade
music
guitar
diy
TL;DR: Received the neck… too bad it’s not exactly the one I ordered :-) The neck # For the neck, I wanted a 24 frets neck and found one that I liked online.
Building my own guitar, part 1
·252 words·2 mins
Gilles Chehade
music
guitar
diy
TL;DR: I’m building a guitar from scratch, picking up every component but skipping the tricky cut and glue bits :-) About this project # The primary goal of this project is to build a custom guitar, picking each and every component one by one, so that it’s 100% what I want it to be.
A new section appeared !
·83 words·1 min
Gilles Chehade
music
TL;DR: I will be discussing music on this blog from now on. This blog is a musical blog too # As some of you know, I have a deep interest for music.