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eiPott

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200

In this blog I’ve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him through an object he offered me once.

Retrocomputing Emulators on Your Browser

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

In the past I’ve been explaining how to use various emulators to run old operating systems on your Linux box; today, we’re going to use a much simpler approach: just click on a link, and run them on your browser!

Fading Into Irrelevance

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100

As technology waves come and go, the names of iconic companies follow the movements, first reaching the pinnacle of their glories, and later fading into irrelevance.

The Last Day of a Tech Conference

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Have you ever stayed until the end of a conference, and walked down the halls of the conference center during the last day of an event?

Memories of WWDC 2008

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Exactly 15 years ago, on Monday, June 9th, 2008, I published a blog post with a picture taken in the big room of the Moscone conference center in San Francisco, waiting for Steve Jobs to introduce the iPhone 3G to the world at the annual Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference 2008.

20 Years of Harman Kardon SoundSticks

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Twenty years ago, months before the scorching (and deadly) summer of 2003, I bought the transparent Harman Kardon SoundSticks that I still have above (and below) my desk today.

Stockholm Syndrome in Software

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Developers working for a particular vendor tend to develop a bizarre version of Stockholm syndrome. It’s something I’ve witnessed at least twice in my career.

Killer Apps

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.

Things That Define Big Software Companies

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Looking at the software industry, it appears that most big companies usually share more traits than they would like to admit. Take for example their products: at any given time, big software companies all had at least one product of various similar categories, roughly grouped in three big areas.

Text Editors for Work

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

There has been a particular text editor that defined each period of my career as a software developer. This article is a summary of that history, so far.