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My 2026 Stack & Tooling of Choice

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The stack, tools, and AI companions I actually use day-to-day in 2026. A snapshot of what a senior engineer's setup looks like when AI is part of the loop.

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#Dev Tools #Stack #AI #Productivity #Setup

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The Agentic Era: How Claude Can Make You a 10x Engineer on the Side

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I've built SaaS products, desktop apps, trading bots, infrastructure, and more, all on my free time with Claude as my engineering companion. Here's what I learned after 2,500+ messages and 100k+ lines of code.

17 min read

#AI #Claude #Side Projects #Thoughts

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A Decade on Linux as My Daily OS

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From Windows NT to macOS to Solus, here's how I ended up running Linux as my main desktop OS for 10 years and why I'm not looking back.

11 min read

#Linux #Thoughts

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How I kinda Fixed Qobuz's Awful Music Recommendations with AI

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Instead of switching to Deezer, I built a pipeline that uses Last.fm, Claude AI, and n8n to generate weekly personalized playlists on Qobuz.

9 min read

#AI #Music #Automation #Bun #TypeScript

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How to log and monitor your app with a non-intrusive solution using Grafana, Loki, and Fluent Bit

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Hey folks, The other day, I was talking about my QoS journey and my work on implementing a Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)-like solution using Node.j

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How to Install Realtek RTL8126 Drivers on Linux

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Hello folks, Recently, I bought a brand new computer with the PRO-X870-P-WIFI motherboard. It has a Realtek® 8126VB 5G LAN port. I have been running Linux for

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#Linux #network #hardware

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How to Ensure a More Reliable ISP Fiber Connection with Failover

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Hello folks, Recently, I have been into the homelab stuff. I wanted to host a little bit more at home. Also, because I am running a Tezos node, I wanted my con

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#Linux #network #failover #Node.js #Programming

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How to monitor your Tezos Baker node using TzKT and Checkly

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Heya folks, For a couple of months, I have been self-running a Tezos node at home using the amazing Tezbake solution available here https://bakebuddy.xyz/. It

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From Authy to Yhtua

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Hey all, The other day (2 years ago) I was doing talking about my transition from Google Auhenticator to Authy here with the variety of all advantages Authy br

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What drives me in Tech

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Heya folks, It has been a long time since I haven't written anything here. I'm pretty sure I have plenty of subjects I could write about, I just need to figure

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#Thoughts

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How I am securely self backing up my PostgreSQL database

Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The other day, I was looking for an old replacement solution to dump my database across the internet securely. I needed it to run on a daily basis, safely, isol

3 min read

#Amazon Web Services #TypeScript #JavaScript #Node.js

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How rethinking your system design can make you save money

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Hey folks, Since a couple of months. I'm working on a CRM-like SaaS product. I've done like 80% of the projects and when you are doing the remaining bytes, ther

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#Node.js #Programming #TypeScript #network

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How to backup your old dying/closing filehosting service

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Hi everyone,‌‌ I've been using hubic.com in the past, but the project was abandoned so I slightly move to Cozy Cloud since. Recently they started saying they ar

2 min read

#Linux #drive #storage

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How and why did I build dogamistats.com

Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Roughly 3 years ago when I was still in London I started getting attention to the Tezos Blockchain. Since then, I have been looking at his ecosystem and Dogamí

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#Programming #Scaleway #Amazon Web Services #Node.js #TypeScript #Dogami #web3 #nft

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From Google Authenticator to Authy

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Hey all, Over the past few years, 2FA became a standard. Ultimately I've been authenticating myself with Google Authenticator by default and I haven't had any

3 min read

#Linux #Thoughts

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The easiest way to clone OS disk to disk

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hey folks, Hope you'r good, since a couple of year both of my laptop or desktop computer I'm running Solus OS. Recently I built a desktop computer for working

3 min read

#Linux #Sysadmin

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The most efficient way to sync IMAP mailboxs

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hey folks, Recently, I had some domains from an old to a new provider. Unfortunately I had attached emails to those domains and I wanted to keep track of my em

3 min read

#imap #mail

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How to share cached data with redis and a Cluster.fork() Node.js app

Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, Recently, I've been playing with internal micro services. I've was used to work with micro which was doing the work pretty well for little thing. micro/m

5 min read

#JavaScript #Node.js #Programming

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How to turn an unreadable stream into a readable stream

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, Today as usual, I was playing around with S3. Sometimes you are downloading stuff, often you are uploading stuff as well. I was putting a bunch of objects

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#Node.js #JavaScript #Programming

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How to deploy functions with Serverless Framework for Scaleway Serverless FaaS

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hey Folks, I've been part into private and public Beta of Function as a Service Serverless based solution by Scaleway over the past few months. I'll show you o

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#Scaleway #Amazon Web Services #JavaScript

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How to use JavaScript aws-sdk for Scaleway S3 Object Storage

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, Few month ago I was showing up how to put an object into Scaleway Object Storage. At that time it was the second time I was playing with their solution,

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#Amazon Web Services #JavaScript #Scaleway

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How to run Puppeteer on ARM based Infrastructure

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, For years now I've been using Phantom.js for some server-side browsing feature. For 2 mains reason it recently leads me to find a replacement: * I am

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#JavaScript #Node.js #Programming

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How to PUT Object on Scaleway S3 Object Storage

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, Today I'll present you Scaleway S3 Object Storage Solution. I had the opportunity to try out public Beta few months ago, and I was really pleased how th

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#Amazon Web Services #JavaScript #Node.js #Programming

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Attach an external or sub domain to your zeit deployments

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, Last time I talked about how to deploy your website on a CDN based platform at zeit.co.More info here: https://iiaku.com/2019/08/06/cdn-ize-your-project

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How to pay in stores with Google Pay on Android

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, I hope everything is well, since I moved to London I am heavily using the famous combo Revolut + Google Pay. The advantages is that you can pay almost eve

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CDN-ize Your Projects with Smart CDN @zeit

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Hey folks, Quick introduction I have been hosting https://simply-debrid.com for a while on virtual/dedicated servers. It has mainly been hosted on Online.net

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What happened ? I moved to London...

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Hi folks, What happened since one year. To be honest I have been very very very BUSY. I may had the time to write some article but the routine train does not st

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AWS Lambda (part III): How to create zip from files

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, After: AWS Lambda: How to create zip from files AWS Lambda (part II): How to create zip from files Here the updated (part III) version: AWS Lambda

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#Programming #JavaScript #TypeScript #Amazon Web Services

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Simple. Basic.

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT

It makes me think about this well known french rapper called Orelsan. He recently won music awards thanks to his music over the past few years. Look at this, t

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#Thoughts #Programming

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After a year at Pops

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, I am Software Engineer at Pops since 7th of November 2016. Since then many things happened, and as a TEAM we build great things. Who we are? First

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#Thoughts #JavaScript #TypeScript #Programming #Amazon Web Services

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Happy New Year 2018

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, I wish you all the best for 2018. For me almost nothing will change in 2018, let things happen, but I'll be still enthusiastic for new things, opportu

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#Thoughts

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iiAku's January Todo

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Update Ghost Core to latest version (1.19.0) * Write new articles REALLY

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#TODOS

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Ghost 1.x+

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I did it ! Major update from 0.x version to 1.x+ 1.18.4 version. It has been a while It needed to be updated but I did not want to take my website down to do th

2 min read

#Linux #Sysadmin

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iiAku's November Todo

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Update Ghost Core to latest version * Write new articles

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#TODOS

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Quick quick, what's going on?

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, It has been a while.. I took some days off, and I'll be back and more active over the next few days. Honestly I have been exhausted over the past few w

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iiAku's September Todo

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Update Ghost Core to latest version * Write new articles

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#TODOS

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AWS event driven service

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey everyone, Few weeks ago I was talking about Logicless invoked AWS Lambda with Metadatas. Logicless means for me a way to implicitly build a logic between

6 min read

#Amazon Web Services #Node.js #Programming

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Ghost major update

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, Over the past few months each time I put in my Todos Ghost core update. Ghost has a fast paced update cycle so you need to update your Ghost on a regular

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iiAku's August Todo

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Update Ghost Core to latest version * Write new articles * Add comment system

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#TODOS

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How to set up a LAMP server on Scaleway

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, Recently I needed to adjust my network server load and I did not want to invest on a long-term on a dedicated instance (avoiding setup fees, add flexibil

3 min read

#network #Sysadmin

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How to trigger Lambda with SNS (part II)

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, Last time I talked about Lambda and SNS here in How to trigger Lambda with SNS. The great thing with Lambda is that it's brought with Serverless. Serverl

2 min read

#Amazon Web Services #Programming

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I realized I was in love with programming

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

nb: while commuting between Amiens, Hauts-De-France and Paris, Ile-De-France Hey, Programming has been part of my life since a long time now. I started pla

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How to trigger Lambda with SNS

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi, As a AWS developer you might have wrote some Lambda. If you don't know what is it I am inviting you to check this article out. It does give you an overvie

3 min read

#Amazon Web Services

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How to update a 8yo project

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey people, I come to a point that things are going to be changed deeply. Few years ago when I was still in High School a classmate of mine (thanks to him) wa

6 min read

#Programming #JavaScript #Sysadmin #network #Node.js

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iiAku's July Todo

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Update Ghost Core to latest version * Write new articles * Add comment system

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#TODOS

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Logicless invoked AWS Lambda with Metadatas

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, I am working with the following AWS service: * S3 * Lambda * SNS Recently I worked on a specific Lambda in order to report a step from a process.

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#Amazon Web Services

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Node.js streams and highWaterMark

Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi, I have been working with streams for a long time. When I started working on programming few years ago, I first start with the basics in web development su

6 min read

#Node.js #JavaScript

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AWS Lambda (part II): How to create zip from files

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi, Last time I talked about how to create zip from files and recently I received a mail from someone which wanted to know how I solved this issue. Later I re

5 min read

#Amazon Web Services #Programming #JavaScript #TypeScript #Node.js

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iiAku's June Todo

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Update Ghost Core to latest version * Write new articles

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#TODOS

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How to deal with Async

Sat, 27 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi, That's a pleasure to be back . I am working as a Backend Developer at Pops and I am focused on the Print part of it. I have designed, built and written an

7 min read

#Node.js #Programming #JavaScript

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iiAku's May Todo

Mon, 08 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Add favicon * Update Ghost Core to latest version * Write new articles

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#TODOS

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How to deal with spam

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi, Since few years, I am running web services and I have faced a phenomenon that can be handled in different ways. In modern web applications there are so ma

9 min read

#Programming #Sysadmin #network #Linux

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AWS Lambda: How to create zip from files

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

nb: There is a more detailed second part of this post available here: GHOST_URL/2017/06/06/aws-lambda-part-ii-how-to-create-zip-from-files/ Hi, It has been

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#Amazon Web Services #Programming #JavaScript #TypeScript

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How to add Emojis to your Ghost blog

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hey, Lastly in my March todo's I said I wanted to customized my Ghost blog. I wanted to add Emojis into it in order to illustrate a bit more my articles . I

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iiAku's April Todo

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * ~~Add certbot SSL Let's Encrypt auto renew ~~ * Add auto backup for my Ghost blog * Add comment system with disqus * Add favicon * Write new artic

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#TODOS

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Flexible and reusable functions

Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I am working since few years in Node.js and since I am working at Pops, I had to work with TypeScript. TypeScript is great like compiler that will translate all

4 min read

#Programming #JavaScript #TypeScript

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How to update your Ghost blog

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi, Last post I made a March todo and I had to update my Ghost installation. Actually each time I was logged in into my admin panel a newest version was out a

3 min read

#Linux #Sysadmin

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How to setup multiple IP on Debian

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Today, that will be my first "tech" oriented post. I would like to share a way to easily setup Public IPs on Linux. To be honnest it’s pretty easy, I will also

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#Linux #Sysadmin

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iiAku's March Todo

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Todo * Update to Ghost version (lastest 0.11.7) * Set HTTPS to iiaku.com SSL rocks ! * Add analytics * Add adsense * Add comment system with disqus * Cu

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#TODOS

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The very first one

Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Hi everyone, There was already a previous one and it was to say Hi, let's write my very own first article. I'm so excited to start A blog. That will be for

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Hi!

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

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