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Sixteen years ago, during a functional programming course, I wrote a small
OCaml program that draws fractals with
 iterated function systems 
(IFS). It is one of my oldest repositories still alive, and it has barely
changed since 2010. I have a long standing affection for both OCaml and
fractals: I even published a
 small work about fractals 
back in 2008. So when I…
I’m happy to announce the release of Newspipe 12.1.0 . This version brings
a reimagined reading experience, a few features I’ve wanted for a long time,
and a much smarter crawler under the hood. 
 Two changes stand out. 
 🗂️ A new three-column reading layout on the home page — feeds, article
list, and reading pane side by side. Less clicking, more reading. The pane…


 


 

 
 I did it. Yesterday evening, at 7pm, I crossed the start line of the ING Night Marathon Luxembourg with more than 18,000 other runners. Approximately 2 hours later, I crossed the finish line of my first half marathon . 
 My time: 2:08:34 , at an average pace of 6:06 /km . I’m honestly proud of it and impressed. My only goal was to finish alive,…
I stopped drinking on 9 November 2025, a Sunday, the day after the Unlock Your Brain conference. No grand resolution, no rock bottom, no challenge to announce. Just a quiet decision that felt, for the first time in a long while, completely mine. 
 I won’t pretend I had a dramatic relationship with alcohol. I didn’t. A glass of wine with dinner, a beer on the terrace in summer,…
Dear happy readers and runners, 
 I’m running the ING Night Marathon Luxembourg (half marathon) on 16 May 2026. It will be my first half marathon and I’m excited — and a little nervous. 
 I’ve been working on becoming a better runner since around 2016 . Over the years I made steady efforts: short, regular runs, slowly increasing my long-run distance, learning to pace myself, and…
Yes, it’s 2025, and I’m still happily using RSS. Not only that. I’ve just gone and added an XSLT stylesheet to my blog’s feed: https://www.cedricbonhomme.org/blog/index.xml . 
 Why? Because why not. 
 For most people, an RSS feed is just raw XML that either: 
 
 Opens in a newsreader (if you’re one of the enlightened few), or 
 Looks like incomprehensible angle-bracket soup in…
I’m pleased to announce the release of Stegano 2.0.0 ! 
 After a series of minor releases, the Stegano project reaches a new milestone with a great new feature. 
 Notable changes 
 Hide and reveal messages in PCM encoded .wav files. Your secrets now have a soundtrack! 
 The command line interface has been updated to let you use this new feature directly from your…
I’m pleased to announce the release of Newspipe 11.1.0 , introducing several enhancements to improve your experience. 
 New Features 
 
 Dynamic Content Loading: The homepage now loads article content only when it becomes visible, optimizing performance and reducing initial load times. 
 Security Advisory Detection: A new command identifies various security advisories—such as…
As the end of the year approaches, numerous trendsetting individuals
are sharing their curated list of preferred tools on their blogs.
Embracing the spirit of this trend, I present my own selection.
Without further ado: 
 
 📨 Mail Service: AlwaysData 
 📮 Mail Client: Kmail and Nextcloud - Mail 
 📝 Notes: Nextcloud - Notes 
 📆 Calendar: Kalendar and Nextcloud…
I am thrilled to announce the release of
 Newspipe version 10.0.0,
a project I started working on over 13 years ago! 
 The standout addition in this release is the ldap-auth support,
along with a host of other notable improvements. And small bug fixes.
For a detailed list of changes, please refer to the
 changelog . 
 Newspipe continues to uphold its user-friendly and…
The new version of pyHIDS 
offers the integration of
 MISP and of
 YARA . 
 A MISP server can be queried in order to find potentially malicious files from the
checksums in the database of pyHIDS. 
The YARA module allows you to provide a set of YARA rules to apply to the
monitoried files. 
 As a reminder,
 a recent previous version 
of pyHIDS introduced the…
The new version of pyHIDS 
features the integration of
 Hashlookup and
 Pandora . 
 You can install it from Pypi ,
for example with pipx: 
 $ pipx install pyHIDS
 $ export PYHIDS_CONFIG = ~/.pyHIDS/conf.cfg
 Example of usage: 
 $ pyhids gen-keys --size 2048 
 Generating 2048 bits RSA keys ...
 Dumping Keys
 Done.
 
 $ pyhids gen-base…
Une fois n’est pas coutume, ce billet est une petite publicité pour la jeune
 École de Musique Associative du Val Sierckois , basée
à Sierck-Les-Bains. C’est une super école ;-) 
 Si vous êtes du secteur et avez envie d’apprendre la musique,
 n’hésitez pas . Les inscriptions sont ouvertes. 


 We are back from our 2 weeks trip in South West of France.
It was really nice.
I just got back to my normal life today with various work related stuff to deal with.
It’s also nice ;-)
But this post is to tell you about the holidays of course.
So let’s start. 
 We visited many places and drove approximately 3000 km by car.
Towards Spain.
This year,…
Since the month of March there is now page on this website.
You may have noticed it. I added it after the migration from WordPress. 
 Most websites have a link that says “about” or “contact”. People also use
micro-blogging services to provide various kind of updates to their relatives
(or followers). A now page tells you what a person is focused on, at some
point in their life.…
I’ve recently released Freshermeat 0.8.1 and Freshermeat 0.8.0, which contains bug
fixes, some backend improvements (especially for the CVE fetcher)
and a brand new API based on the Flask-RESTX library. Migrating to the new API was a lot
of work. 
 The only known service based on Freshermeat is available
 here and is dedicated to open source
security projects. Do not…
We welcome a new family member in our house. It’s a baby. Just like 7 years ago. 
 
 Even though I can play a little with it, it’s Élisabeth’s double bass and she is already
way better than me. 
 Until recently, she could only practice with the one of the music school. I find it a
little amusing to see a 7 year old child with an instrument of this
size. A…

 This is what I love with
 ActivityPub and the
 Fediverse :
the federation. 
It’s really cool. Everything is connected and pretty fast. 
 You can post an activity somewhere (for example a photo on PixelFed or video on PeerTube),
share it on Mastodon. You get a comment about this activity somewhere else. And
you can reply to this comment from another place.…
You may have noticed some turbulence recently here. Especially in the RSS stream.
It will now calm down, promised. What happened ? 
 After 14 years rolling with WordPress,
I’ve finally decided to change for a static website. It is generated with
 Hugo . I was thinking about this for some time. 
 The new address is https://www.cedricbonhomme.org and the feed for your…

 Je le savais .
Depuis maintenant 11 ans. Le temps passe vite. 
 Python est finalement en tête du classement TIOBE. Enfin !
Mais la chose la plus marquante est que c’est la première fois depuis 20 ans
que le langage C n’est plus en première position.
Actuellement, la tendance pour Python est toujours à la hausse. 
 Je crois que j’ai commencé à…