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Software engineer, from big servers to tiny microcontrollers. Member of The ASF, tech lead at Elastic. Opinions my own, obviously. Blogging (sometimes) at https://bluxte.net 🌐 Toulouse, France, Europe
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Bloom filters belong to the larger family of probabilistic data structures. They're conceptually simple yet super useful to build scalable systems.

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Le meetup “Devenir speaker” 🎤 c’était top ! Maintenant, c’est à vous : postulez au #DevFestToulouse ici 👉 buff.ly/hzgKtf4 On a hâte de lire vos sujets 🎤🔥 #CFP #DevFest #TechCommunity #Conférence

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"The best developers of tomorrow will be those who didn’t let today’s AI make them forget how to think" – great article from @addyosmani.bsky.social on how to effectively leverage AI while not loosing your skills. addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-s...

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We integrated #java 's new Stable Values feature just now! This will allow developers and library developers to benefit from the "secret" @Stable annotation that the internal JDK code has been using for years. This can bring significant performance improvements to your code! openjdk.org/jeps/502

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Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field: www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

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Va falloir que je structure mon fan club 😅 Mais bon, ça fait plaisir, merci ! 😊

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Looks like I just became the tech lead for the upcoming MCP server for Elasticsearch 🎉 Pretty excited, but also so many items and questions when you think ahead to build a robust production-grade product. And then you prune that long list to define and design an MVP that can grow and evolve.

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Do you really need a Vector Search Database? great post from intercom and their decision to stick with elasticsearch. lots of great quotes in this one 1/7

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wrote about the latest fediverse drama, and how it shows that picking your home server is actually difficult: the choice has meaningful consequences but it is virtually impossible to get the all relevant information beforehand fediversereport.com/fediverse-re...

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Je viens de réaliser que j'ai 2 talks à @sunnytech.bsky.social 😅 J'ai reçu un 2ème mail d'acceptation que j'ai validé en me disant que j'avais dû oublier de cliquer sur le premier, sans faire attention que ça n'était pas le même sujet. Vous aurez donc double ration le vendredi après-midi !

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📢 How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them #veille

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I needed to access the filesystem from a Rust WASM library running in Node.js. This was deceptively simple, but surprisingly I couldn't find an existing crate for this.

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If you need an ETA to enter the UK, the official website very strongly insists for you to use their phone app. It indeed makes things somewhat easy as it uses the NFC reader to scan the passport and uses the phone's camera to take a mugshot. Now the payment doesn't work. 1/2

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Le fait que n'importe quel sujet - quand il est abordĂŠ et racontĂŠ par une personne qui aime ce sujet - soit passionnant

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Current status: migrating my family's domain name away from Gandi because of their insane price increase since they were acquired. After 25 years, time for a new home at OVH. I'm temporarily migrating DNS servers and email forwarding to Cloudflare to avoid any disruption during the transition…

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🚀 Vous voulez devenir speaker ? Rendez-vous le 28 avril pour notre meetup spécial lancement du CFP du #DevFestToulouse ! Candidatures, formats de talk, retours d’expérience… tout sera abordé ! 🎤🍕 buff.ly/VPD6zFE #TalksTech #MeetupToulouse #CFP #ToulouseTech

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