Software engineer, from big servers to tiny microcontrollers. Principal engineer at @elastic.co, member of @apache.org. Blogging (sometimes) at https://bluxte.net
🌐 Toulouse, France, Europe
Sylvain Wallez
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Perfect example of a very badly chosen domain name: startupskill.me
It's "Startup Skill" with the "me" TLD probably as it was available (and cheap?), but I actually read it as "Startups Kill Me".
It reminds me of the good old penisland.net 🤣
Dans les coulisses du #DevFestToulouse :
🍴 Le traiteur se prépare
🎤 Le CFP est terminé, place à la sélection des talks
🎂 Les préparatifs des 10 ans avancent...
Et une mascotte pourrait bien débarquer 👀
La gazette complète : https://devfesttoulouse.fr/2026/06/01/les-coulisses-mai-2026-🌸/
Sylvain Wallez
🎤 Et si c'était vous, sur scène ?
L'appel à participation du #CapitoleDuLibre 2026 est ouvert jusqu'au 20 juillet ! Primo-speakers bienvenus, mentorat possible, tous les sujets autour du libre. Conf, lightning talks, ateliers.
👉 cfp.capitoledulibre.org/cdl-2026/
Venez, ça va être bien ! 🧡
"Sous le capot d’une base de données analytique" avec Sylvain Wallez. Découvrez comment une requête devient un résultat en explorant parser, optimisation et exécution. #SunnyTech2026 #DataAnalytics
The sky also celebrates the Pride Month!
Cool hack to recycle old remotes. And more than a clicker, this can be used for full control of your media center!
Devfest Toulouse
Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust
Creative, a font to fool AI, works with embedding fonts. We gonna see so much of these things in the next months.
tritium.legal/blog/noroboto
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The Flappy Bird is out of the bag: Ableton will now let you create your own custom Extensions using JavaScript/TypeScript.
I've been testing this and talking to the team; here's my explanation of what this can and can't do, how it works, and why it's cool:
iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust.
My first post for the @oxide.computer blog! Goes deep into the pitfalls of unsafe Rust and how to reason about it. A lot of labor went into the post -- please have a read!
oxide.computer/blog/iddqd-u...
Boring but functional post on something I think more leaders need to address: guidelines for respectful use of AI medium.com/@skamille/gu...
Free AI tool that tells you if your startup idea will fail, before you waste months building it. Market research, competitor analysis, business model, and a brutal GO/NO-GO verdict. 30+ structured fil...
You run up against a limitation in Ableton Live, or you've got a creative idea. What if you could make it happen using code? That's the Ableton Extension SDK, out in public beta now (JavaScript, TypeS...
cdm.link
How our Rust collections library defends against adversarial trait implementations.
Brisk4t's "Tossed The TV — Kept The Remote" (TTVKTR) is an open-source firmware project for Raspberry Pi RP2040 USB boards that aims to reduce electronics
