The OS-periment

There is something special about updating software documentation. Sometimes, it’s just boring as hell, but at other times, it is a unique occasion to step down and think about what you’ve done and whether it was the right choice. And as I am working on a documentation page about Makefiles, it’s time for me to [...]

It just occurred to me that the typing experience on modern computers is worse than it should be. No, I’m not just talking about how awful blind typing on a virtual keyboard is, but rather about all sorts of design decisions that have been made in the past regarding how typing should work in desktop [...]

Hi everyone ! I have been a bit busy lately. Not as much busy OSdeving as I’d like, though, more like busy starting a PhD, addressing the remaining issues with my new flat, telling various organisms that I should now be considered as a paid worker from an administrative point of view, changing my sleep [...]

Sourceforge’s Hosted Apps service, which I used to keep a Trac with OS|periment documentation and pending issues, has been deteriorating pretty quickly since the announcement that it will be shut down in a few months. In fact, at this point, I cannot even edit wiki pages there anymore, so I am not able provide migration [...]

Two years and nine months ago, frustrated by mainstream desktop OSs, I decided that it was time for me to do something crazy and design one that satisfies my needs better. This is how, in the middle of January 2010, the OS|periment project was born. Now, today, as I prepare myself to review and update [...]

Whew, that was exhausting. Have I just been working on this post for, like, more than a month ? Even if my second attempt at having my computer repaired is likely to disturb this wishful thinking, expect less posting and more coding in the upcoming weeks, as I miss the smell of  fresh code in [...]

So, I have been busy during the last few days because I have went back home in Grenoble and resumed fixing the various things that are wrong with my new flat. Latest pending : little warm water pressure, no internet, and fresh from tonight, some sort of breakage inside of the toilet’s two faucets that [...]

So, some time ago, I was discussing how the open-source world was, in my opinion, lacking a software that keeps the “contribute source back” core principle of the GPL without being so convoluted and restrictive. I named the concept NPL (Neolander’s Public License) as a temporary name. Well, that side-project has grown up, and I [...]

Although this seems to become a minority opinion this days among the main actors of the OS market, I firmly believe that as soon as a piece of computer hardware becomes widely used, the interface through which it interacts with software should be standardized. In this article, I wanted to discuss the benefits of such [...]

So, while I have plenty of blogging time to on my hands, I have decided to think a bit about the future of this blog, and the project as a whole. Here are some ideas that I’ve considered trying, I’d really appreciate some feedback on them. Blogging ideas Buffered posting TOSP’s posting rate is generally [...]