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2023

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.
I love you
·783 words·4 mins
Gilles Chehade
personal
Almost four years ago, your mom and I left home and rushed to the maternity hospital to give birth to your brother. As I closed the door to our home, I told your mom with a huge smile that the next time we’d open the door we’d no longer be only the two of us.

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.
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.
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