I recently finished reading a fun little fantasy/sci-fi series called "Magic 2.0" by Scott Meyer. This series is probably best known for its first book, "Off to Be the Wizard". The premise of that book goes as follows: Martin Banks, a 20-something computer nerd, finds himself poking around obscure… Read more
I recently got back into the development of an open source game I released last summer, You're the OS!. It is a browser game, written in Python and compiled to WebAssembly, in which, as the title indicates, you are the operating system of a computer. As such, you have to manage processes, memory and… Read more
Il y a quelques semaines, le ministre fédéral de l'Innovation, des Sciences et de l'Industrie, François-Philippe Champagne, a annoncé l'intention de son gouvernement de bannir certains appareils électroniques qualifiés de « dispositifs de piratage » selon un article de Radio-Canada, sous prétexte… Read more
As a geek born in the early 1990s, who has been playing with computers from a young age, I think fondly of what tech looked like in the late 1990s and early 2000s. So, naturally, when I got my hands on an old computer a few months ago, I installed Windows 98 on it as a way to revive software from my… Read more
It was in last November that I texted the following to my good friend Sam, a fellow computer nerd: “Imagine a videogame where you are an operating system. You have to manage CPU cores, processes, memory pages and swap space. You have to make sure that no process starves, and to swap memory pages… Read more
When it comes to selecting techs that will be used in a software development project, I see mostly two approaches: picking a framework that will take most of the important decisions for you, or handpicking a variety of libraries and tools, each of which will handle a specific aspect of the system… Read more
Depuis que le Gouvernement du Québec a annoncé qu'un passeport vaccinal sera bientôt requis pour pouvoir accéder à certains lieux dans la province, j'ai vu plusieurs personnes sur les médias sociaux exprimer des craintes au sujet du fameux code QR qui est envoyé depuis quelques mois déjà à tous ceux… Read more
Il est devenu coutume pour les sites Web, depuis la popularisation des bloqueurs de publicités il y a des années, d'afficher un message aux utilisateurs de ces outils, tantôt pour leur demander gentiment de le désactiver, tantôt pour carrément les culpabiliser: l'utilisateur sans scrupule profite du… Read more
Une pétition est présentement en ligne sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec pour réclamer que le recours au vote par Internet soit rendu possible lors des élections municipales de 2021, ainsi que lors des référendums et des élections provinciales subséquentes. Cette demande est d'abord… Read more
I am currently both a member of a software development team and a computer science teacher. As a teacher, I recently taught a lesson about REST API concepts in a web development class. While preparing for my class, I realized that I had never really took the time to properly understand the… Read more