Personal blog focussed on tech things I find interesting. Some of them involve building small tools (like a swiss ID checksum generator) or illustrating certain algorithms (like the 4 color theorem).

Since 2012 I have a one-track mind. I want a world with:

* hundreds of software products for any need (mostly check)

* that can all be easily modified by hundreds of thousands of people,

* creating tens of thousands of forks,

* publishing thousands of forks

* used by millions of people.

Wake up sheeple! Add more resilience to your software tools! I joined Mastodon in 2018, the Tildeverse in 2020, Lemmy in 2022, Calckey in 2023. Monopolies won't break themselves, each of us has to be willing to think different, try out new things.

I blog about software development, GIS Geospatial, Hamradio, Go, gRPC ...

A few of my posts on dynamic programming got a fair bit of traction here on HN.

I haven't posted in a while, but after a busy few years, I have some posts lined up. I want to reflect on some teaching I did (one big reason I didn't have time to blog), as well as document me getting a new home server set up (this time with containers, finally).

I infrequently post about anything I feel like. Some older posts, which were exported from the wordpress version of the blog, are a bit badly formatted.

I am using Zola and github actions to publish.

I write very infrequently, but my favorite posts are:

- Why is the Quintic Unsolvable? - https://www.akalin.com/quintic-unsolvability

- A Gentle Introduction to Erasure Codes - https://www.akalin.com/intro-erasure-codes

HN really liked this article: Awk driven IoT https://anisse.astier.eu/awk-driven-iot.html

But there many others that could be interesting:

Making a Twitter bot that looks for hashes https://anisse.astier.eu/making-a-twitter-bot-that-looks-for...

SIGSEGv1 qualification CTF https://anisse.astier.eu/qual-sigsegv1-rtfm.html

Bash, so long and thanks for all the fish https://anisse.astier.eu/bash-to-fish.html

Playing with ARM servers in a pre-Ampere era https://anisse.astier.eu/distro-kernel-scaleway-arm.html

How remote work pushes you towards engineering best practices https://anisse.astier.eu/embedded-software-maturity.html

How I traded my first software project: https://anisse.astier.eu/gmail-binary-clock-rust.html

Winning r2wars 2019 https://anisse.astier.eu/r2wars-2019.html

And of course my ongoing Game Gear emulator in Rust series: https://anisse.astier.eu/talks-emulation.html https://anisse.astier.eu/gears-update-2023-01.html https://anisse.astier.eu/gears-update-2023-02.html https://anisse.astier.eu/gears-update-2023-03.html

I write mostly about my for fun personal side projects. I don't have that many posts but I'm proud of having hit the HN front page a couple of times!

Ruby, Raspberry Pi, AI, Japan, Switzerland

I've been writing for fun a few years ago, then one of my articles got really popular because it ranked high on search engines and it still receives a fair amount of traffic.

Since then, even though I wrote more articles, I discarded them because of this new "pressure": nothing really feels as good as the articles that I already published. I have not published anything in 4.5 years, but I keep promising myself that I'd start again some day.

Any feedback or criticism on the current articles is welcome.

YC founder talking to other YC founders

https://r4s.beehiiv.com/

Trying to break down big opportunities in big markets. Going to be doing some pieces in coming weeks on commercialising research and forgotten ideas from history that could still be viable startups today.

Some prev pieces on:

- Generative New Knowledge Creation (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/idea-factories)

- Infrastructure for building a one-person company (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/startup-opportunities-building-one...)

- Personal teaching assistants for every child on earth (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/cracking-edtechs-holy-grail-tutor-...)

Technology (mostly homelab), Finance, and the Christian Worldview.

I just got back to public writing, but I like to share summaries of the books I read.

My most recent post is the secret history of cold war submarine espionage: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/01/blind_mans_bluff.htm...

This recently was featured on hacker news's front page: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html