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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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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know when the individual videos will come out?

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Same as abstraction layers, everything above is bloated and inflexible, everything below is hacky and horrible

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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 · 28/06/2026

I personally have them configured to only show up if I have a certain shortcut chord active, so they're usually not there, but if I need them, I can just hold the shortcut. That's in VSCode

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of if not the best debut albums ever. The production alone is amazing

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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 · 21/04/2026

Honest advice (you didn't ask for): doing some regular mobility and core exercising, like 10m every day or every couple days will change so many details like... not needing a shoehorn. Sedentary jobs like ours have a tendency to make us think of our bodies only as transportation for our minds.

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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 · 02/03/2026

Good programming languages must contain at least 7% gay

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Hot take: this is completely fine in certain scenarios (also I've seen so much worse in the wild)

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Also true of version control systems

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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 · 31/01/2026

Thank you for the great drawing! And thanks for staying through this entire talk. I hope you enjoyed it

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Setting aside the non-technical issues I have with LLMs, are they able to create actually good commits (smaller, atomic, explained, in logical order, leaving the project working and adding tests along the way, etc.) to the tune of what would fly in say Mercurial since you've had the experience?

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Congrats on the beta. We've been using the now defunct Pytype. It's horribly slow, but it always yields much better results than others, thanks to its much deeper analysis. The Mercurial codebase being so weird, it'll be hard to migrate without significantly more typing (we'll have to it seems)

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We had people (invested, well meaning volunteers) insist that we should use Microsoft Git 365 for CI instead of setting up our own runners and dealing with the hassle... We had to push back for many reasons, one being that Mercurial should not depend on GitHub, but also this kind of decision

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You do lose out on recommendation for niche videos from 18 years ago in 144p mono

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Digging deep in most verticals of Python inflicts psychic damage, I should know. Thanks for adding to the list of horrors heh

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Don't forget to blame your tools and to get sidetracked and you're good to go

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

How? Isn't flowinfo just a u32? I know nothing about this, so I'm curious

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I work on the version control software I use, checkmate

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

But it's souffle (breath), not soufflé (puffed up cake)? I agree it's funny though

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In Python at least it's a "hope for the best" situation because all type analyzers give up given enough magic. There are no rules around separating static and dynamic in any way. I've heard of Mojo but never looked into it

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I was like "huh I've never had a problem" and then just one hour later I get a breaking change in one of our tests due to OpenSSL... It's infectious

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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 · 12/06/2025

Truly one of the mysteries of our time. This hurts my French brain, so... j'ai mal à son cerveau ?

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Uuugh that's another stupid mitigation for me. Could you share the details?

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Just put a C implementation through c2rust, easy

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Counterpoint: bind caps lock to a function layer switch to make full use of your 60% keyboard. Ask me how I know.

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

FWIW, I've been using btrfs since 2019 with no issues and better performance for intense IO than the zfs setups I've seen at clients'.

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Oh I know (thanks for monotone btw), I'm just taking stock of the huge pile of things I have left to do, there are only so many things one can do in a day. Though not supporting windows yet, I do go out of my way to create abstractions to plan for later support.

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Windows is much more painful, especially for a VCS. IO APIs are slow and insane, all sorts of quirks... I am more familiar with POSIX, but even then Windows always needs the weird hacks. We're working on better support, but not in our Rust code, as it's a lot of work and nobody's paying for it.

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pretty much same, though having stronger programmers to help was/still is a big part of it as well.

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Raphaël Gomès @alphare.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Feel free to fill the feed with pure tech content!

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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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