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░hi, i'm sacha
I'm a software engineer in France. At work I take on the foundational jobs: framework migrations, faster tests and CI, performance, design systems. I measure before acting.
At home I build my own tools, from a web browser to a GUI toolkit, and I run them on my own homelab.
résumé
shoot me an email
now building
wren
A small Windows browser where WebAssembly runs everything.
papier
A fast clipboard history, searched as you type.
gui_toolkit
A fast, native, immediate-mode GUI toolkit.
opencode_native
A native desktop client for opencode. Independent: not affiliated with the OpenCode team.
latest writing
- Abstraction is a loan
Every abstraction borrows against the machine. A narrow one pays for itself, a wide one that hides its cost does not. Composition shows everything and promises nothing more.
- Beware: Big Ideas Ahead
A good idea gets loose, becomes an identity, and detaches from the program. REST, objects, microservices and agile.
- The free man is constrained
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." Rousseau wrote it in 1762. It is the most quoted sentence of the Social Contract, and it hides the book. A few chapters later,...