Julien Palard

Python Developer and Trainer

Articles by Julien Palard

Black screen at boot on my PinePhone

My phone was no longer booting…

Finding a lost iPhone owner, the hard way

My parents found an iPhone, couldn't locate its owner. What I tried next.

Releasing pipe v2.0

Introducing partially parametrized pipes!

How to install any distrib on a Gandi VPS

I needed to install BBB, which requires Ubuntu 18.0.4, but they only had Ubuntu 20.0.4...

How APT does its fancy progress bar

It uses good old VT100 instructions.

HackInScience hits 10k solved exercices per month!

HackInScience is my litlle side-project to teach Python at scale. Last month, ~1000 persons solved ~10k exercices on it.

How I use bash

This is how I use bash, as I presented it at « En attendant la PyCon Fr ».

Reversing a coffee machine key

At $DAYJOB, a long time ago, we had big a coffee machine allowing us to store money in NFC keys…

Python Translation Workshop 3

I'm organizing a 3rd workshop to translate the Python Documentation on 2018-09-20!!!

TL;DR, register on meetup.com.

The goal is mainly to translate a bit of the documentation, so indirectly to help newcomers with the tools (github / git / poedit / ...). We'll be hosted by Budget Insight, and Pizzas will be …

La PyCon Fr 2018 approche !

La PyCON Fr 2018 c'est dans 4 mois, mine de rien c'est pas si loin, c'est le moment de l'ajouter sur son calendrier.

L'appel à présentations est ouvert aussi, vous pouvez y proposer des ateliers, des sprints, ou des présentations (25 mn ou 50 mn).

Si vous n'êtes jamais …