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August 08, 2025 · 21 min read

Desktop de voyage

Rigel Kent

Faire de la mobilité sans un processeur mobile.


May 29, 2020 · 14 min read

Carnet de dévelopment sur PeerTube, étape 2.2

Rigel Kent

Vous n'avez pas suivi le dévelopment de PeerTube ces 3 derniers mois ? En attendant sa sortie, retour sur quelques fonctionalités développées par la communauté que j'ai dans le viseur.


April 25, 2020 · 8 min read

WebTorrent, le bon, le brut, l'abandonné

Rigel Kent

7 ans après, quel bilan pour WebTorrent ? Quelles technologies bloquent son usage et quelles alternatives méritent notre attention ?


April 06, 2018 · 8 min read

Taking the gate

Rigel Kent

Essay about networks and their gatekeepers: our routers, small home devices that could do so much more to build a positive future for the Internet.


December 22, 2017 · 3 min read

SRLB: a better load balancer than Google's MagLev for Linux

Rigel Kent

Short description of a load-balancer module that could allow NFV at warp speed within IPv6 networks.


November 16, 2017 · 10 min read

Somebody is WRONG about the Internet

Rigel Kent

Net neutrality is probably the most worderfully boring topic, and ranting, the most practiced online activity. Let's mix the two!


November 15, 2017 · 5 min read

Going further with my server and securing docker

Rigel Kent

Ansible deployment? I just discovered "infrastructure as code". And while it takes time, it is very maintainable. Some problems arise though: Docker security with AppArmor? Dreadfully complicated, unless you have some automatic tools.


August 31, 2017 · 9 min read

Optimizing a Grav installation

Rigel Kent

Grav is the simplest iteration of Wordpress. Kidding, it's a simpler to install version of Ghost, since it uses NodeJS. It is a simple beast I loved to optimize, though I don't use it anymore.


August 28, 2017 · 7 min read

Draft notes #2

Rigel Kent

Compressing assets with Grav, and being fed up (temporarily) about the state of JavaScript.


August 26, 2017 · 7 min read

ZeroNet, quest for a decentralised and anonymous internet

Rigel Kent

There are only few systems that make practical anonymous services. ZeroNet is one of them, relying on the Tor network and putting tools that make websites running on top of it more efficient and scalable. Here be dragons, this is alpha software.


August 24, 2017 · 4 min read

Draft notes #1

Rigel Kent

Some thoughts about self-hosting after the last PSES. I still think self-hosting is important, but made with other tools and certainly with other structures than just individuals.


August 17, 2017 · 8 min read

Building LineageOS for my Mate 8

Rigel Kent

Mate 8 is a poorly supported platform when it comes to alternative OSes - let's see if we can try LineageOS on it.


August 12, 2017 · 2 min read

VoidLinux: Full Disk Encryption

Rigel Kent

I was tired of pacman, so I tried a new distribution: Void Linux. Not bad but it misses a proper guide to full disk encryption.


June 13, 2017 · 2 min read

Git tricks

Rigel Kent

List of annotated commands to deal with file deletion.


June 08, 2017 · 2 min read

Reverse-engineering Android apps to regain freedom

Rigel Kent

Basic app reverse-engineering to understand how to practice app cleaning. Not scalable but insightful.


June 01, 2017 · 4 min read

Using Traffic Control with Virtualbox

Rigel Kent

Traffic Control is a small but extremely powerful utility to simulate lossy or small connections. With VirtualBox being a widespread option to develop networking applications, let's describe a small setup.


September 09, 2016 · 3 min read

Free servers for students of the university

Rigel Kent

Gathering servers from a local company, barely aged, for fun and profit at the local CS association.


July 30, 2016 · 5 min read

The age of engineering ignorance

Rigel Kent

A note written out of exasperation for the state of gender parity in IT. The issues might be more deeply rooted in society, but we have to act within the IT sector too.


July 13, 2016 · 4 min read

Benchmarking (raw) speech recognition APIs

Rigel Kent

A very short test to choose API at the time of the writing.


June 24, 2016 · 2 min read

Good reads!

Rigel Kent

I wish I had more time to read books. Maybe you can read some of my collection though, so let's review it!


June 05, 2016 · 2 min read

Wordpress docker install script

Rigel Kent

I swear I don't use Wordpress anymore - it is a very useful playgroand to teach basic web development though.

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