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Raphaël Gomès

@alphare.bsky.social
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Maintainer of the Mercurial version control system, working at Octobus. I write Rust and I have to write Python.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's our latest talk! This time it was addressed to a room full of people from the Git ecosystem (GitMerge conference), hoping that they may be interested in our model and our scaling, so we can all keep moving forwards. We had some good feedback and great discussions after this.
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Checking out another branch of VC - Raphaël Gomès & Pierre-Yves David
YouTube video by GitButler
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PolyWolf @wolf.girl.technology · 19/08/2026
New blog post: "Given A Link To This Post, Can You Trust It?" wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-08-19-given-… #cybersec
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The year is 2026 and I keep getting "invalid password" errors from websites (from very large companies!) by using passwords that are too long. 99% sure they're truncating silently on save and then failing to match. Come to think of it, I should have tried truncating to like 20 chars to see...
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There is something endearing in the age of genAI to receive 90's-level spam like "HELLO WE OFFER LOANS. HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU NEED"
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sent a very cool boulder today. I climbed it a bit poorly but I'm still happy about it! youtube.com/shorts/kTEkI...
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"Le Retour du Jedi" 7A (V6/7)
YouTube video by Alphare33
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 08/03/2026
A poor craftsman blames his tools. Wealthy craftsmen also blame their tools. Lots of tool-blaming going around.
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
What's the deal with movies/series hiring definitely not French-speaking actors to play French roles? It's so obvious and removes me from the story
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Gave two talks, prepared another one and animated a BOF at FOSDEM this weekend. I'm running on fumes an very few hours of sleep. As always the hallway track was the most interesting and probably impactful. Time will tell 😉
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Sent my first 7A outside today, pretty psyched. It's a cool boulder too
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Hippo 7A (V6/7) - Verosvres (secteur plateau)
YouTube video by Alphare33
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 16/09/2025
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Can't make this up: I was writing code to translate known deadnames in metadata from our old bugtracker to our new one and I get this autocomplete
Picture of a (dusty) screen showing Python code, with the autocomplete suggesting "maketrans" after typing "m"
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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I love the somewhat recent trend in software engineering of realizing that performance actually matters and that computers are so much faster than we think. The heaps of Python code I have to deal with are sometimes a bit demoralizing, but it's at least a valuable challenge. One day it'll be good.
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