Wed 27 January 2021

Si vous faites partie, comme moi, de ces étranges individus à ne pas posséder de smartphone en 2021, mais que l'envie de jouer à Unlock! vous démange comme vous adorez les jeux de piste & d'énigme, j'ai la solution pour vous ! Peut-être n'avez-vous simplement pas de smartphone sous la main, chargé …

Mon 18 September 2017

In the last years, cmder became my default console when I needed a cmd.exe-compatible Windows console. Very often, I have a cmder window with a set of tabs under my standard Windows user, and another that I launch as admi, to switch on/off some services, e.g …

Thu 18 May 2017

What do you think of the following innocuous Python code ? from gevent import monkey monkey.patch_all(thread=False, select=False) import requests requests.get('http://i-do-not-exist.com') print('THIS WILL NEVER BE PRINTED !!!') Guess what ? The string message will never get printed :( Simply remove the monkey.patch_all line and you'll …

Thu 25 February 2016

In any UNIX shell, the following will always work out of the box: browserify src/main/lib/js/*.js > out-bundle.js But of course, not under Windows. And browserify does not accept directory names as primary parameter, nor wildcard globbing patterns. There is a pending issue & pull request aiming to …

Tue 12 January 2016

First, lets mention Git Bash (aka msysgit) : the old version was a PITA to extend with additional packages (e.g. adding common C libs like libxml), and the new one (renamed Git for Windows), is based on MSYS2, but does not include a package manager. Hence, we were left with …

Sat 16 May 2015

Cette après-midi, j'ai enfin résolu un problème d'installation de Microsoft .NET Framework qui datait de presque un an. Dans l'espoir que ça puisse aider quelqu'un qui rencontre la même erreur, et parce que j'ai appris à utiliser un outil intéressant au passage, je me fends d'un petit article de blog …

Mon 12 January 2015

Under Windows, CPython is shipped with a very useful py command. PEP-397 describes in details its behaviour, and its C implementation can be found in the CPYthon Mercurial repository. There has already been a lenghty discussion in the "python-ideas" mailing list to write a Linux equivalent. I agree with what …