Yes, I know, I know, I missed the last note… But I have an excuse: I started a new job that is much more physical and I really needed to recover.

Alright, here we go:

2026-05-31

🛠️ Projects

Abbaye

If you know me even a little, you know that I like things that take up little space and don’t use services in the hands of web giants.

In the field of programming, we often use software [“forges”], which are places to share code, collaborate on it, receive bug reports, and distribute versions of our software.

There are plenty of pieces of software I write that I consider don’t deserve to be hosted on a shared forge, such as Codeberg. These forges cost money to run, and I don’t want to contribute to their load for most of what I write. What I write simply isn’t that important.

There is always the possibility of self-hosting a software forge, but the internet is traversed by several actors with various degrees of malice who make self-hosting these tools complicated, foremost among them being AI companies that aggressively scan all publicly accessible content, causing a certain load.

Anyway, tangent finished.

Abbaye meets a simple need: hosting the distributables of a version of a piece of software.

What are “distributables” in this context, you ask in my little internal theater? It can be several things:

• A binary file for installing the software;
• the software manual;
• the list of changes made by this version compared to the previous one (Fixed bug X, Added functionality allowing us to go “beep” when pressing a button,…).

Abbaye allows generating a website hosting all that for a given project. It thus becomes possible for anyone with access to a web server to publish their software.

As a bonus, Abbaye provides an RSS feed allowing subscribers of it to stay updated on new versions.

The Abbaye site, generated by Abbaye.

By the way: why the name “Abbaye”? Simple: I wanted a name evoking a place where one stores precious things (in the eyes of some, not necessarily universal monetary value, a bit like the distributables of your last favorite project), but a place that is a bit calm.

Moving from Mastodon to Snac2

I finally changed my instance, which I call my “home” in the Fediverse. I am now @ololduck@vit.am.

The move from fosstodon.org to vit.am was surprisingly painless, mastodon & snac are two beautiful pieces of well-made software.

👀 Discovered

Lots of things, but I forgot to note them as they happened. 🫣

📖 Read

I didn’t read anything. 🙂‍↔️

🎧 Listened

• Mechanicus II Original Soundtrack by Guillaume David. The music from the first one by the same artist was very cool (🦉), and here we find the engine hums, the hymns in Binhaire (a fictional language based on binary, allowing the techno-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to communicate with each other and with machines). The great organ of Angoulême is marked by its absence, unlike the first one.

🎮 Played

I haven’t played lately. I would really like to continue Factorio but I am more interested in programming right now.