Here is the second entry on my journey becoming a upper-tier IT engineer. Still need these skills because of intellectual curiosity, still want the money for personal family goals reasons. Okay. I’ve been fired from a mission in a bank. The exact cocktail of reasons that led the service manager to this decision is still […]

I am a web developer in an average French city. The kind of city where you can find a few notable tech companies, but where most of the jobs are indeed subcontracting for generic companies like postal service, agri-food, banks, more or less useful mobile app for niche markets startups and stuff like this. A […]

What is VIM ? Behind this obscure name is a powerful text editor that runs in the terminal. No need for any graphic user interface (GUI) to use it. Vim is like an old man among text editor. It is a derivative of Vi, born in 1976. There was no graphic user interface available to […]

LineageOS is an Android distribution that can ship with or without Google Apps, and is offering is more vanilla-like, privacy-focused experience with no vendor software at all. Find out if your phone or tablet is compatible on the official device list. Be sure to check “discontinued devices” to see all models.

Tired of var_dump ? Follow the Jetbrains documentation to know how to configure PHPStorm for Xdebug and say goodbye to clumsy debugging.

Windows 8 and later releases might not please those who are nostalgic of Windows 7 style Start menu. Too many ads and distraction, online and offline results mixing, Cortana, etc… Previously named Classic Shell, you can now have the Windows 7 experience with OpenShell on this Github. Download and install the executable and follow the […]

NVM, for Node Version Manager, is a script available on this Github repo. It is useful to quickly switch between node version, especially for front-end development. Follow instruction on the repo’s README to proceed with latest version. Then use your terminal :

Hi everyone. I open this blog as a cheatsheet to write every tech tip I will find useful in my professionnal and personnal life. From tweaking Windows to preparing an IDE for PHP development, from PSP custom firmware installation to pentesting on a virtual machine, every cool thing I happen to do and fear to […]