Olivier Lacan

@olivier_lacan@robot.villas

Olivier Lacan's essays on programming, Ruby, open-source software, developer tools, photography, and personal life.

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Zoé #Personal #Essays #Life
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Dec 31, 2025
The $PATH to Enlightenment #Programming #OpenSource #Philosophy
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Dec 25, 2024
Constant Variable #Programming #Software #Tech
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Dec 31, 2023
Join #Programming #OpenSource #Community
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Dec 31, 2022
High Fidelity Remote Communication #Communication #RemoteWork #Tech
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Sep 30, 2021
In Sight #Programming #OpenSource #Essays
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Jan 29, 2020
Loud & Clear #Programming #OpenSource #Tech
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Dec 20, 2019
Immunity #Programming #OpenSource #Essays
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Jun 27, 2018
The Fear of Pairing #Programming #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment
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Apr 8, 2018
cd is Wasting Your Time #Programming #DeveloperTools #Productivity
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Mar 26, 2018
Changelogs on RubyGems.org #Ruby #OpenSource #DevTools
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Mar 24, 2018
Why Won't Bundle Update? #Programming #Ruby #DevTools
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Mar 14, 2018
Migrating Homebrew Postgres to a New Version #Programming #DevTools #Postgres
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Feb 7, 2018
Keep a Changelog 1.0 #Programming #OpenSource #Changelog
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Jun 20, 2017
Ruby Heroes Farewell #Ruby #Programming #OpenSource
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Mar 15, 2017
Concurrency in Ruby 3 with Guilds #Ruby #Programming #Concurrency
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Sep 27, 2016
Ruby Facets #Ruby #Programming #OpenSource
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Sep 21, 2016
Taking Care of Things #Programming #OpenSource #Essays
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Aug 19, 2016
The Upgrade Trails #Programming #Tech #OpenSource
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Aug 13, 2016
Increasing the Sidebar Font Size in Sublime Text #Programming #TextEditor #Customization
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Aug 9, 2016
Logging Changes All Over The World #Programming #OpenSource #Tech
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Aug 7, 2016
Hash Comparison in Ruby 2.3 #Ruby #Programming #OpenSource
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Nov 11, 2015
Diving into Ruby, Head First. #Ruby #Programming #Developer
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Nov 7, 2015
Migrating an ad-hoc URL slug system to FriendlyId #Programming #Ruby #DeveloperTools
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Apr 16, 2015
Better Feedback on Ruby 2.2 Keyword Argument Errors #Ruby #Programming #DeveloperTools
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Mar 30, 2015
Ego Time Machine #Programming #Software #Personal
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Jan 2, 2015
How to Install Your Own Version of git #Programming #Git #OpenSource
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Dec 19, 2014
The Cover Matters #Programming #OpenSource #Essays
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Dec 17, 2014
Pairing is the Potion #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding
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Dec 11, 2014
Optimizing the Wrong Code #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Code
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Oct 23, 2014
The 'Little Things' #Programming #Ruby #OpenSource
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Sep 26, 2014
The Semantics of Software #Software #Programming #Semantics
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Aug 30, 2014
Jumping between words in the console #Programming #DeveloperTools #Console
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Aug 20, 2014
The Greatest Lie #Essays #Personal #Life
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Jul 28, 2014
There is no such thing as magic. #Programming #Philosophy #Developer
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Jul 9, 2014
Bose Mode #Programming #OpenSource #Tech
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Jul 8, 2014
The Internet's Own Boy #Tech #OpenSource #Community
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Jul 5, 2014
A Tiny Little . #Programming #OpenSource #Tech
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Jun 29, 2014
Listening to her. #Personal #Reflection #Life
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Jun 21, 2014
Product Gardening #ProductManagement #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech
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Jun 6, 2014