Artemis' Bog - tech

Oops!... I Did It Again

2026-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

I did it again. I changed blogging engines again. I was running Astro, got tired of it and wanted to use something else. So here we are, with this fully statically generated blog, using Zola. And I guess a few more surprises.

Futures Lost

2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

I've just watched a small retrospective on the HTC Advantage, running on Windows Mobile, precursor to Windows Phone, released just a year before the iPhone.

From 2023, it looks like a Phone/PDA hybrid. Watching the retrospective, the enthusiastic explanations of the presenter, along with the stylus-powered demonstration, it was hard not to get lost in the fervor. Nevertheless, I was genuinely impressed by everything that could be achieved on this device, including tasks at which modern smartphones greatly struggle.

Chasing useless blag optimization

2023-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Is all I'm talking on this blag is my blag!?

Last Sunday, I had a bit of time so I decided to work a bit on my blag. Let's see what I did and whether it's interesting:

Added a favicon
Updated the delivery of the CSS
Added one media query
Server updates

Three commits later let's see how it went.

So, I re-did my blag

2023-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Wasn't this blag dead?

No, not really. Around the time I stopped publishing here, my life started going faster. Things happen, you face adversity, you overcome hardships, you get rewarded for your efforts, you get setbacks, you repeat the cycle, and suddenly, it's been nearly 10 years. I didn't stop writing entirely, I dropped a few articles into my gemlog (HTTPS mirror), I had other, more personal creative outlets but this blag laid dormant.

Will it fully come back to from its slumber? That is left to be seen. I have however one article, albeit pertaining to the blag itself.

Simple Wine Workflow

2014-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

For a little while, I've been wanting to write an introduction to Wine. Wine is not an emulator, so do not call it one. Or else, terrible things will happen. Wine is "a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD". It isn't perfect but it works often. You might still have to boot under Windows from time to time but it will help to minimize these. Of course, Wine is free software (as in free speech). Let's see how to use it.

Arch i686 container

2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Recently, I've been wanting to build package for my not very powerful eee-pc laptop. I just have one problem: all my computers except this one are use a 64bit architecture instead of a 32bit one. So I needed to make a chroot. So, instead of doing that I decided to play a little with systemd containers. Here is what I did.

Batch Document Conversions with Libreoffice

2013-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

A few days ago, I was having trouble with some powerpoint documents I was given. I needed to read them on my netbook while traveling. The problem was that my netbook is a magnificent Asus eeePC 701 which, of course, isn't powerful enough to run libreoffice. So I had to convert them, but with what ? I didn't want to use Libreoffice to open each documents and export them to pdf : there was a dozen of them ! And then, I discovered libreoffice headless mode.

On ebooks

2013-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

EDIT 2014-08-25: I added a few links.

I love books. I love books a lot. I've loved them since I was a little kid. My parents read me books before I went to bed. They read books for pleasure. So naturally, as a kid I wanted to read books. I was really happy to learn to read. Because guess what, books are awesome. And with a few francs you could get a library card that would grant you an unlimited amount of stories, adventures and fun. Then I grew up and added blood, sex and philosophy into the mix and books were awesome and mature. So yeah, I love books, but how is that interesting?