Geoffroy Couprie
@geoffroycouprie.com
Messing with Rust and cryptography
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Fun fact : Par sa décision, le @conseil-etat.fr n'a pas seulement validé la liberté d'utiliser l'écriture inclusive.
Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu :
Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale.
(🤭)
Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu :
Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale.
(🤭)
January 10, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Fun fact : Par sa décision, le @conseil-etat.fr n'a pas seulement validé la liberté d'utiliser l'écriture inclusive.
Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu :
Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale.
(🤭)
Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu :
Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale.
(🤭)
It should be back up now. I've been neglecting my server a bit, sorry 😅
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
It should be back up now. I've been neglecting my server a bit, sorry 😅
Counterpoint: we have lowered our standards so much over the years that AI became usable for it.
And now AI is helping us reach new lows we could not imagine before
And now AI is helping us reach new lows we could not imagine before
January 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Counterpoint: we have lowered our standards so much over the years that AI became usable for it.
And now AI is helping us reach new lows we could not imagine before
And now AI is helping us reach new lows we could not imagine before
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One thing I love about the Onion staff is that when you click on these articles, it's clear they do actually read our media releases.
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/
January 6, 2026 at 9:37 PM
One thing I love about the Onion staff is that when you click on these articles, it's clear they do actually read our media releases.
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is what happens when you try to skip to an endgame factory in factorio
December 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is what happens when you try to skip to an endgame factory in factorio
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Les Halles is our Moria.
you, a worldly new yorker, a londoner maybe or any other city with underground trains: "the french are so dramatic, chatelet les halles can't be that bad."
chatelet les halles, the largest underground station in the world:
chatelet les halles, the largest underground station in the world:
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Les Halles is our Moria.
So you're saying you want AI agents in your editor 😏
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
So you're saying you want AI agents in your editor 😏
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The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
Honestly that's the best job
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Honestly that's the best job
Maybe we should introduce "seniority without accountability", that would fit very well with modern software development practice
"Accountability without authority" would definitely be in it
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Maybe we should introduce "seniority without accountability", that would fit very well with modern software development practice
Oh, that's interesting. It's probably a useful measure of value against the rest at the instant, but is it stable enough over time to use it again as money?
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Oh, that's interesting. It's probably a useful measure of value against the rest at the instant, but is it stable enough over time to use it again as money?
Considering gold is mainly used as an investment vehicle, without any large practical use in industry, that sounds like a weird metric
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Considering gold is mainly used as an investment vehicle, without any large practical use in industry, that sounds like a weird metric
You'd think that by this time they would have built a proper business and not need anymore to push snake oil, but no, the grift continues
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You'd think that by this time they would have built a proper business and not need anymore to push snake oil, but no, the grift continues
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I have been saying for quite a while now that, any time somebody tells you that their thing is "end-to-end encrypted" you must smile and nod and go, "oh that's cool, very nice" before fixing them with a steel glare and asking, "between which two ends?"
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I have been saying for quite a while now that, any time somebody tells you that their thing is "end-to-end encrypted" you must smile and nod and go, "oh that's cool, very nice" before fixing them with a steel glare and asking, "between which two ends?"
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As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
Bagpipes! Where disassembly and maintenance is half of the fun
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Bagpipes! Where disassembly and maintenance is half of the fun
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
Somebody right now is furiously re reading the reviews they received 😂
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Somebody right now is furiously re reading the reviews they received 😂
In this forsaken period of performance reviews, remember the one joy you can get out of it: endorsing your friends for the things they are good at but will never admit, potentially putting them on the career path they would not dare to try
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In this forsaken period of performance reviews, remember the one joy you can get out of it: endorsing your friends for the things they are good at but will never admit, potentially putting them on the career path they would not dare to try
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
It's called five whys because at the sixth you reach the execs
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's called five whys because at the sixth you reach the execs
Sometimes I feel we got a little bit too comfortable with blameless postmortems. We should introduce the accountability premortem. If something can fail and it was predictable, somebody should put their neck on the line, either to prevent it or to deal with the consequences if they arise
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sometimes I feel we got a little bit too comfortable with blameless postmortems. We should introduce the accountability premortem. If something can fail and it was predictable, somebody should put their neck on the line, either to prevent it or to deal with the consequences if they arise
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A related thing I’ve seen is decent software folks saying “at least what I do isn’t critical” as a way to distance themselves from the perceived responsibility/stress/burden of the things we work on, knowing the tradeoffs we make.
We’re given huge amounts of power and should act accordingly.
We’re given huge amounts of power and should act accordingly.
all I see are "they're not engineers" "that's not what engineering is" I want a thick good really real piece to sink my teeth in about all the parts of this that ARE "like engineering"
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A related thing I’ve seen is decent software folks saying “at least what I do isn’t critical” as a way to distance themselves from the perceived responsibility/stress/burden of the things we work on, knowing the tradeoffs we make.
We’re given huge amounts of power and should act accordingly.
We’re given huge amounts of power and should act accordingly.