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2022

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.

2021

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.
December 2021: a bit of plakar, a bit of go-fastcdc and some useless stuff
·2438 words·12 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I worked on plakar, go-fastcdc a FastCDC implementation for plakar, and some useless stuff. This activity report will be short # This activity report will be short because I spent the last ten days caring for my kid who got sick… before catching his stomach bug myself and spending the last few days in a somewhat familiar and unpleasant hell, unable to do everything I intended for this month.
October 2021: mostly Plakar
·2683 words·13 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I have a discord now, feel free to join. I refactored plakar, implemented a local cache, improved parallelism, modified the push strategy, played with fuse and networking.
November 2021: a bit of go-ipcmsg, a bit of go-privsep and a ton of plakar
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Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I still have a discord, feel free to join. I worked on go-ipcmsg to make it nicer, go-privsep to make it more useable, and A LOT on plakar to make it plakar.
August 2021: taking a break
·635 words·3 mins
Gilles Chehade
personal
TL;DR: this is a short article, no TL;DR. Why so calm ? # As some of you know, I was diagnosed a few years ago with generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and alexithymia, a trait that makes it particularly difficult for me to cope with the disorders.
Mind hacking: comprendre comment fonctionne notre esprit
·6319 words·30 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: J’explique superficiellement comment fonctionne notre esprit, en partant du corps, puis de notre sens de la réalité, avant de finir par les états de conscience et personnalités.
Mind hacking: understanding how our mind works
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Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: I explain very superficially how our minds work, starting from our body, following with our sense of reality, and ending with our states of consciousness and personalities.
April 2021: OpenSMTPD, plakar, ipcmsg, privsep and a small hypnosis talk
·2666 words·13 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I worked on OpenSMTPD-portable, did a lot of plakar, a lot of Go and gave a technical talk on hypnosis. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax.
March 2021: backups with Plakar
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Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I wrote a backup utility called plakar. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe ! now !)
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