Raphaël Gomès
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Raphaël Gomès
@alphare.bsky.social
Maintainer of the Mercurial version control system, working at Octobus.

I write Rust and I have to write Python.
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
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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 😉
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Sent my first 7A outside today, pretty psyched. It's a cool boulder too
Hippo 7A (V6/7) - Verosvres (secteur plateau)
YouTube video by Alphare33
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November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Raphaël Gomès
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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.
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM