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IBM Model M keyboard bolt-mod, USB & QMK

IBM Model M keyboard bolt-mod, USB & QMK

In the nineties I bought an IBM PC-XT from a classmate. 200 Francs, about 45 € or $ from 2022, for a pretty nice looking computer with his green CRT and 102 keys ISO keyboard. I didn’t know what to do with this system and I barely started it every 10 years thinking that one day it will be useful.


13 January 2023 • 4 min read
Dan Mace's videos are staged but who cares?

Dan Mace's videos are staged but who cares?

Dan Mace is one of my favourites youtubers. I love EVERYTHING in his videos. Everything. And I am always amazed about how he puts his ideas into stories.


23 July 2022 • 2 min read
Cap d'Agde

Cap d'Agde

To try the conversion of my car I did a small tour in the south of France and spent two nights at Cap d’Agde, a big seaside summer city. I have been vacationing in this place with my family since the end of the 70’s until the 90’s.

Travel •  vanlife
14 October 2021 • 1 min read
Timelapse box

Timelapse box

I enjoy landscape timelapses, I can watch them for a long time on the web.

Do It Yourself •  Photography
23 May 2021 • 4 min read
Ghost & SQLite on FreeBSD

Ghost & SQLite on FreeBSD

I had a little trouble installing Ghost with the SQLite3 backend on FreeBSD. The problem is that there is no precompiled version of node-sqlite3 for FreeBSD and it requires a slight adaptation of the installation process.

article •  Computing
24 September 2020 • 5 min read
Ghost, GoatCounter & Nginx

Ghost, GoatCounter & Nginx

I used Matomo for many years as an analytics platform for my websites. two problems here: I am not fond of MySQL/MariaDB (I’m most of a PostgreSQL fan) and Matomo is overkill for my usage. Time to move to GoatCounter!

article •  Computing
14 September 2020 • 3 min read
Isso & FreeBSD rc.d

Isso & FreeBSD rc.d

I am using Isso as a lightweight commenting system for a few websites hosted on my FreeBSD server, and until recently I was using supervisor to daemonize and control the instances. But why using a third party process control system (event if it is does a great job) if we can do it with FreeBSD native mechanisms ?

article •  en •  Computing
8 May 2020 • 2 min read
Ghost CMS and FreeBSD integration

Ghost CMS and FreeBSD integration

My approach is to use only built-ins tools from FreeBSD to run a Ghost instance.

article •  Computing
22 September 2019 • 3 min read
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