Open-Source

FLOSS contributions

Some Free/Libre Open Source Software projects to which I have contributed:

• fpdf2 : minimalist PDF creation library for Python. I am the single maintainer of this project. I have implemented many new features from v2.1.0 onwards. cf. related blog posts.

• I made a few minor bug fixes to CPython: GitHub PRs

• Pelican : a static site generator in Python

  • created a plugin to send LinkBacks
  • and another to insert thumbnails along image links
  • and another to publish articles on a Shaarli instance
  • and another to generate CTags
  • designed a 2-columns layout theme
  • improved two other themes: pelican-mg & html5-dopetrope
  • fixed the Travis CI pipeline for the pelican-plugins repository
  • added support for the {include} syntax
  • fixed some minor things in the core & in plugins

• pre-commit : Python command line manager for git pre-commit hooks

  • created several hooks
  • also made some bug fixes, improved support for Cygwin and added support for locally defined hooks

• shaarli : personal, minimalist, bookmarking service, in PHP

  • improved the search form ergonomy
  • added the ability to display subtags in the tag cloud
  • some bug fixes

• isso : several small bugfixes & improvements to this great self-hosted commenting service using Markdown & SQLite

• pylint : a Python code static analyzer, for which I added a check for oversighted implicit string concatenations in sequences

• bandit : a Python security linter, for which I added a check for bidirectional unicode control characters to detect TrojanSource vulnerabilities

• : a Python module to build batch pipelines, it handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization, etc.

  • added a new parameter type: DateSecondParameter
  • some bug fixes and exception messages improvements

• Nonogram : added some features to this great picross / hanjie / logimage game / solver / editor in Javascript

• pew : simplify Python virtual environments management, let use them in dedicated shell session

  • added support for cmder & Cygwin

• MinigalNano : a simple PHP image gallery

  • made a bunch of bug fixes, including the RSS feed

• COVID-19 Le jeu : initialization of the repo, build tools & JS code for the web version of this educational print & play board game, under a creative-commons license

I also made some maps for a Ludum Dare game, back in 2009 (the game is worth trying !): http://eriatic.wikidot.com/blog:triumph-mappack

Contributions made at oui.sncf

When working at oui.sncf, I had the opportunity to contribute to the following FLOSS projects:

• Hesperides: a configuration management tool providing universal text file templating and properties editing through a REST API and a webapp. I have worked on its massive refactoring to a new hexagonal architecture using CQRS, and have been its maintainer for several years.

I also built the following ones :

• V.Board : a "pins" dashboard to share news among an organization

• hesperides-jenkins-lib : a shared lib for Jenkins pipelines to interact with Hesperides, the in-house configuration management system

• orka-tools : a set of useful Python scripts to interact with Orka (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple), a virtualization layer to orchestrate macOS in a cloud environment using Kubernetes on genuine Apple hardware

• nexus_uploader : a Python tool to help with the development & deployment of company-private Python packages on a Sonatype Nexus

Pet projects, musings

Games

• Undying Dusk : a video game in a PDF format, with a gameplay based on exploration and logic puzzles, in the tradition of dungeon crawlers:

• The King Must Know : a Phaser JS short video game made with 2 colleagues during the Global Game Jam 2018
• tablut : a PHP implementation of an old Scandinavian duel board game for the online platform BoardGameArena, with simple rules
• MemoryGame.js : a simple HTML+JS memory game, forked from Mark Rolich repo to add support for images

For games & tabletop RPGs

• 5 Minute Dungeon - Target Assigner : a minimal web app for a great board game variant - related blog article
• shared-img-reveal : a minimal web application to share an image with your players, like a map, and progressively reveal it
• rpg-bonhomme : a tabletop RPG character sheet viewer, with a Python backend using a JSONP key-value store
• rpg-dice : perform dice rolls on a web page shared among players

Other

• OkCupid AutoPass bookmarklet : some extra filters for this nice dating website
• Python Black Box challenge
• genealogic-d3 : genealogy tree visualization using d3.js
• youtube_playlist_watcher : backup Youtube playlists and alert you on songs deletions, written in Python
• music-emails-spybot : Python script generating an HTML archive page of all mentioned songs in emails retrieved from IMAP server (e.g. Gmail)
• wisemapping-mindmap-viewer : a simple HTML+JS mindmap viewer, fork of an original Java project, with a companion brain_dump repo containing tools to manipulate simple mindmaps described as indented Markdown
• ecovoit : a web search engine for French carpooling offers (deprecated)
• nose-summary-report : nose plugin that generates a final summary of tests status as a table
• unicode-search : a NodeJS CLI program to search unicode characters by name

Translation

• translation from English to French of the short, open-source, interactive story game The Temple of No by the Crows Crows Crows studio
• Havoc Brigade, a 25 pages tabletop role-playing game by Grant Howitt, that I translated to French: La Brigade du Chaos