Recent Posts

Why colorize terminal output when you can colorize on the reader?
Colorful text is a must, because we are visual creatures. We process shapes and colors way better than symbols. Confronted to a screen full of text, it is hard to make sense of it, without meaningful coloring.
Nov 29, 2022 5 min read
Why colorize terminal output when you can colorize on the reader?
Preventing the collapse of civilization
I stumbled upon this talk by Jonathan Blow on YouTube and I must share it. Civilizations flourish thanks to the technologies they invent. Yet those same technological achievements get lost because the same civilizations that created them fail or at least they fail to propagate them to the future.
Aug 19, 2022 2 min read thoughts
Preventing the collapse of civilization
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm - Bitcoin & Haskell
The previous posts covered mathematical curiosities. Now we can leave that realm, find an application and turn them into tools to work with elliptic curve cryptography. That means finding and choosing which particular values of the parameters bring us into a curve we can use for cryptography.
Aug 4, 2021 13 min read
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm - Bitcoin & Haskell
Elliptic Curves on Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell
When merging the last two posts, I immediately run into serious difficulties. Haskell’s type system just made my work harder(well my ignorance did). Until I could come up with a solution, I could not appreciate how the strictness of the type system actually gives flexibility.
Jul 13, 2021 10 min read
Elliptic Curves on Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell
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Projects

I work on

cardano.el
An Emacs interface to the Cardano node. It replaces the CLI, lets you craft any complex transaction and can even be your wallet.
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cardano.el
Delightful Dying
An alternative take on life and dead planing. Live joyfully, leave joyfully.
Delightful Dying
Org-cv
Org-mode backend exporters for generating a Curriculum Vita using some \(\LaTeX\) templates.
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Org-cv
Sphinx-Gallery
Sphinx-Gallery is a Sphinx extension that builds an HTML gallery of examples from any set of Python scripts.
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Sphinx-Gallery

Recent & Upcoming Talks

My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate
In this workshop I teach how to use the sovereign project. A set of Ansible playbooks that you use to build and maintain you own personal cloud entirely based on open source projects.
Last updated on Sep 8, 2020
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My cloud, I rule my data and I rule how I communicate
English - The torture of the conqueror
This is a short humorous speech for the Wordstock Festival. I go over the hurdles of learning English as a foreign language and all those language quirks.
Last updated on Jun 1, 2020
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English - The torture of the conqueror
Monitoring bees and more
Held in German, this talk shows how to use Checkmk and about an interesting use case about it flexibility when it is configured to monitory bee colonies and their honey production.
Last updated on Jun 1, 2020
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