Hi to all my readers!

I recently decided to take more time out of my work to play with technologies and have fun with programming 🙂

This blog will follow my adventures.

I don’t really have any precise idea, or field, of what I’ll play with. My background is mostly with backend services and networking, I will probably fiddle with things that are completely different. Some should revolve around Linux/Ruby, maybe I will get into bigger projects that are web-based, android apps, frameworks, etc. One thing is for sure, I want to contribute to other people’s open source projects.

That should be it for my current goals on this blog, I should try to write a few times a week, but it’ll depend on my load at work. One thing is for sure: I plan on writing a monthly overview of what I worked on in that month, to make me accountable and to force me to make progress.

Any feedback is welcome!

Currently on my E-Reader

I'm currently reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners. I got this book in a HumbleBundle deal a while back. As the name suggest, it looks really basic, but contains information about a lot of libraries.

Latest posts

• Storing data in Alexa-triggered Lambda (1/8/2021) Posted in: alexa to rpi - While playing with Alexa, I wanted to have both session-based and permanent storage. Here is how I ended up storing data in Alexa-triggered Lambda. Continue Reading
• Test in-development Alexa Skill with an Echo device (12/11/2020) Posted in: alexa to rpi - I was having issues with an Echo device when playing with my Alexa Skill. Here is how I managed to test in-development Alexa Skill with an Echo device Continue Reading
• AWS Lambda triggered by catch-all Alexa Skill (11/27/2020) Posted in: alexa to rpi - In the context of trying to control my RaspberryPi with my Echo devices, this post outlines how I got an AWS Lambda triggered by catch-all Alexa Skill Continue Reading
• Using a reverse SSH tunnel to access a RaspberryPi (11/13/2020) Posted in: alexa to rpi - In order to securely connect from AWS to a RaspberryPi in my house, here is how I ended up using a reverse SSH tunnel to access a RaspberryPi Continue Reading
• A tale of C++ native Ruby and RAII (10/30/2020) Posted in: ruby - A tale of C++ native Ruby and RAII: using RAII to time function execution and using rake-compiler with C++ for native Ruby Continue Reading
• Using rake-compiler to build native Ruby extensions (10/16/2020) Posted in: ruby - This post presents details on how I ended up using rake-compiler to build native Ruby extensions in order to interact with hardware. Continue Reading
• Automating bleed addition to tilesets (10/2/2020) Posted in: tileset-tooling - A small project rose from my needs after playing with tilesets: tileset_tooling. My first use case: automating bleed addition to tilesets. Continue Reading
• Custom initializer when subclassing Dry::Struct (9/25/2020) Posted in: ruby - Here is how I wrote my custom initializer to have a subclass require less information than its base when subclassing Dry::Struct. Continue Reading
• Empty space between tiles in Unity (9/18/2020) Posted in: unity - While playing with Unity, I was always ending up with weird space between my tiles. Here is how I ended up fixing the empty space between tiles in Unity. Continue Reading
• Using SemanticLogger with Highline in Ruby (9/11/2020) Posted in: ruby - For a project of mine, I decided to use SemanticLogger with Highline in Ruby. I ended up having a few issues, here is how I fixed them. Continue Reading