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New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Phoenix LiveView 1.2"

thibaut_barrere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:49:59 +0000

LLM use is very solid here. I have been shipping some fairly cool stuff for different clients, just like if I was managing a team of 3 or 4 people.

The stable nature of the language, and the static/immutable nature of constructs, presumably really helps moving safely here.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:50:30 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:48:55 +0000

BYD has cars supporting this afaik. And working in the electrical charging point data sector at the moment, we see that fast charge is a breaking point to make people decide the switch is worth it.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:31:30 +0000

You can have well-integrated applicative workflows (eg: progress report on a permalink in your front end app), app-restart-proof resumable workflows, and it avoids adding an extra piece of infrastructure.

We use Postgres for that on https://transport.data.gouv.fr (Elixir app which does a fair bit of processing), and it helps.

Not familiar yet with pg_durable though, but I have used or implemented similar solutions and can relate.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:11:36 +0000

I started migrating to FastMail years ago, but never got to switch in full yet, because in my case with a public email address, the level of unhandled spam is too high.

Did you meet that issue?

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:25:55 +0000

US clouds offer are featureful not first because it is useful, but because it is the best way to ensure vendor lock-in. A lot of implementors are now realizing that you can achieve the same level of service, or better, with less cloud features.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:46:29 +0000

A lot of people actually are. I am running multiple apps on EU-based clouds offers (most PaaS rather than VPS), to the tune of multiple billion queries per year.

The offer really has moved, and people are taking it seriously.

Also: not worst in every dimension at all. For instance, you actually get serious support, no matter your size, a much better version of what premium accounts give you at AWS/GCP etc.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Pandoc Templates"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:15:02 +0000

Neat. Now I need Quarto, but with Elixir and Livebook!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Pandoc Templates"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:41:09 +0000

To address that, a long while back I used a Markdown to Ruby Prawn to PDF generator. I could not find a generic mainstream tool supporting this…

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Pandoc Templates"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:39:05 +0000

Beware it does not export to docx/libreoffice format. So not usable in the exact same situations.

https://typst.app/docs/web-app/export-and-preview/

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Pandoc Templates"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:16:03 +0000

Somehow related is https://www.metanorma.org/ (using Markdown to produce norms-compatible outputs).

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup with Big Tech

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:26:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-going-through-a-trump-fueled-breakup-with-big-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322215

Points: 8

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New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

thibaut_barrere — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:17:37 +0000

Yes, but still: so is AI.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:51:28 +0000

Would you had precise kits references to share? It is quite hard to figure out what has cheap electronic versus what works. Thanks!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:42:22 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231538, they appeared to have everything you can have, and it wasn’t enough to prevent this.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:32:22 +0000

A bit rich on an article showing we are precisely breaking away, topic by topic, to something which is more balanced.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:29:11 +0000

The use is very high (daily) in my social circles these days. No more IBAN sharing. Non tech are on it. YMMV

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:26:09 +0000

Every single friend to friend transfer around me is done via wero these days. And between business SEPA more and more.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:08:32 +0000

It is, and that is why the company took action:

> After being confronted with this research, Stichting 113 temporarily suspended all measurement and analysis tools on its website.

It does not mean that this cannot happen, but the regulatory framework helps stop it.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Mass NPM Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170 Packages"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:08:46 +0000

Current discussion has more providers/targets involved