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A few months ago I wrote about GitHub’s independence — short version, migrating from one centralized forge to another isn’t a strategy, it’s a rebrand. Recently I followed up with a review of Euro-Office and LaSuite , making the same point about European “sovereign” office suites being developed on GitHub. At the end of that article I promised I’d come back to…
A quick follow-up to my previous piece on USA lock-in . That article ended on a call to action: Europe needs to stop building on American infrastructure, and the smartest path forward is public investment in open-source foundations. Since then, two projects have caught my eye — one federal, one industry-led — and both prove that Europe is moving, and that the momentum is real. They also,…
I often say that “everything is political,” and I’ve never been able to fully separate tech from politics—this article is no exception. I promise I’ll try to publish more purely technical posts soon, but in the current context, it’s hard to focus on anything else. For context: I’m French, and this perspective comes from someone watching the United States from…
The recent departure of Thomas Dohmke from GitHub has created significant discussion within the tech community. As the former CEO, Dohmke was seen by many as a steady hand navigating GitHub’s post-acquisition era under Microsoft. His exit has reignited a critical debate that has simmered for years: Can a single, corporate-controlled platform ever truly serve as the unshakeable foundation for…
I had originally written a post about a tool I use daily, but as I was writing it, I realized how little value it actually brought… Don’t get me wrong—I still plan to publish it. But during my review, I had the horrible feeling that I had wasted my time reading it. Trying to understand why this article lacked interest, I took some time to read other articles I had recently come…
Cloud is just someone else computer If you work or are interested in information technology (IT), you’ve probably seen this joke on memes, shirt and mugs… In fact it’s quite far from reality, your implementation of an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) abstraction involves someone else’s API, which calls various services from your cloud providers; these services, in turn, deploy…
I’m not entirely sure the internet really needed another opinion, especially since mine tend to be ridiculously absolute—but hey, let’s add a little context to all this. So, here we go. I’m Siryu (because I had to give a name to a pixel character I wasted too much time on). I’ve been working in cybersecurity for 7 years (oh shit!). I’m an enthusiastic open-source advocate, though I’ll admit,…