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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.

now building

wren
A small Windows browser where WebAssembly runs everything.
papier
A fast clipboard manager for Linux, on gui_toolkit
gui_toolkit
A fast, native, immediate-mode GUI toolkit.
opencode_native
A native desktop client for the opencode server, for Windows and Linux. Independent: not built by the OpenCode team, not affiliated with them.
latest writing
- The same dog with a nicer coat: why I left YAML for a key=value file
In the first post, I looked at where the Unix text stream comes from. In the second, I looked at the same shortcut in fork, in files and in the idea of a "resource". They all make...
- A wrong abstraction is worse than none: fork, files and the myth of the resource
In the first post, I looked at the Unix text stream: a small machine, a size constraint, and a slogan written down twenty-one years later. It makes a duck, a mouse and an elephant...
- The Unix Philosophy: Making a duck, a mouse and an elephant bark like a dog
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. Doug McIlroy It sounds wise. It is also how you end up making a duck, a mouse and an elephant bark...