I’m a 38 years old software engineer living in Paris, France.
You can consult here some of my works or take a look at my Curriculum Vitæ. I’m working at Scality where I’m Director of Engineering, leading two great teams of engineers to write the file system of the future and build the most efficient storage backend.
Disclaimer: Opinions and this website in particular are my own and not the views of my employer.
During my free time, I love riding my bike and working on some opensource projects:
- Terminology, an open source terminal emulator written in C with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, with lots of great features, and a focus on speed.
- Many smaller projects written in the Rust language:
- bfb, an irc bot written in BrainFuck++!!! It is configurable, can welcome new users, supports SSL. It is released under the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License.
- Some others listed on openhub.net or on github.
Contact
You can contact me by different means of communication:
- by email: boris at fau dot re
- on irc: billiob on libera.chat
- on github: borisfaure
I also host my public PGP key. Its fingerprint is A03F 74A6 51C4 36DA 002A D7C8 5787 DA62 0CE5 17D1
I occasionally write about stuff
2025-08-10 Detect-Changed-Files for GitHub Actions
A simple tool written in Zig to detect changed files in a GitHub Actions workflow
2024-05-26 Ronde, a simple monitoring service
Generate a status page based on output of some commands, along with alerting in case of failure.
2024-02-20 Installing Gentoo on a Virtual Private Server
Gentoo can run fine on a VPS at Oracle Cloud or OVH Cloud
2023-09-22 JUnit-Parser v1.0.0
A Rust library to parse JUnit test report files
2023-08-10 A CLI to control Spotify
A small tool to display the current song or interact with the playback
2023-02-08 A lovely (env) logger for Rust
A small crate to make your logs look lovely
2022-07-01 Coccinelle
Semantic patching for Terminology
2022-04-18 Offline CI
Making a more reliable CI (for Terminology)
2019-07-15 A dumb raytracer written in Rust
Quite some work just to generate a wallpaper for my phone
2019-01-08 Testing Terminology
Avoid regressions in Terminology's escape code parsing
2018-12-08 A wrapper to i3status in go
Bonus: will it rain in the next hour?
2018-10-14 Terminology supports hyperlinks escape sequences
Be able to embed hyperlinks in your scripts!
2018-03-16 Terminology provides more choice for cursors!
Adding support for the DECSCUSR sequence.
2018-03-13 Terminology supports the Encircled escape sequence!
Adding some encircled characters to terminology.
2017-04-11 The Signin crate
A Rust crate to validate Google SignIn tokens
2016-07-19 A textual clock on i3lock
Porting the klok theme file from enlightenment to i3
2016-02-06 On mazes with Rust
Learning Rust by generating mazes
2015-11-11 Fuzzing Terminology with AFL
A different way to find bugs in Terminology.
2015-02-07 Terminology: on selections
The myriad of ways to make a selection in Terminology.
2014-10-19 Gravatar integration in Terminology
Show nice email tooltips.
2014-10-14 Terminology at the EFL Dev Day 2014
Slides from my talk about terminology at the EFL Dev Day 2014
2014-05-15 Miniview of the history in Terminology
A faster way to scroll the history
2014-04-06 Terminology supports the Fraktur escape sequence!
Adding some gothic characters to terminology.
2014-03-30 gdb + valgrind
How to combine gdb and valgrind for greater debugging
2013-12-03 View images attachments in mutt within terminology
With a simple line of configuration, view images saved as attachements in your emails in mutt.
2013-10-26 Terminology at the EFL Dev Day 2013
Slides from my talk about terminology at the EFL Dev Day 2013
2013-08-18 PhotoAlbum.js
A static photoalbum generator written in node.js
2013-02-24 Terminology at FOSDEM 2013
Slides from my talk about terminology at FOSDEM 2013
2013-01-22 Ptyproxy
Why I wrote a pty logging proxy
2012-07-10 Why you shouldn't concatenate strings in erlang
Explaining why string:concat is costly.
2012-07-02 Tiny Web Framework - a simple web framework written in erlang
Nitrogen is too big, I needed something simple.
2011-12-11 E-Tiling v0.9 is released
On the road to v1.0!
2011-07-11 Presentation of E-Tiling
A tiling module for enlightenment
2011-06-12 Eenvaders: an animated wallpaper for enlightenment
a wallpaper that needs some compilation to show plenty of random killable eenvarders!
2011-06-06 A textual clock as background for enlightenment
An animated wallpaper for enlightenment (yet another clock…)
2011-04-10 Pull from faster read-only repos with git's pushInsteadOf
A tip to improve your workflow with git when working with a public git.
2010-06-12 aMSN2's web frontend
Why aMSN2's web frontend is not working yet
2010-06-11 My gentoo overlay
I have a gentoo overlay
2010-04-18 aMSN2's status
Where is aMSN2 development going?