<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.8.7">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-07-17T01:37:23+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/feed.xml</id><title type="html">fcbrossard.net</title><subtitle>Hi, my name is François-Clément Brossard. Welcome to my personal website around dev, tech, gaming and fun.</subtitle><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Goodbye Disqus</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/goodbye-disqus" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Goodbye Disqus" /><published>2026-07-13T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2026-07-13T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/goodbye-disqus</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Web Development" /><category term="Disqus" /><category term="Remark42" /><category term="Comments" /><category term="Jekyll" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Disqus started pushing ads onto free plans, so I went looking for a self-hosted alternative and finally landed on Remark42.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Compact WSL disk storage to reclaim space</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/compact-wsl-disk-storage" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Compact WSL disk storage to reclaim space" /><published>2026-07-12T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2026-07-12T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/compact-wsl-disk-storage</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Windows" /><category term="WSL" /><category term="PowerShell" /><category term="Storage" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[WSL doesn't automatically shrink its virtual disk when you delete files. Here is a small PowerShell script to compact the VHDX and reclaim the wasted space.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Track the Epic Free Games with EFGTracker</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/track-the-epic-free-games-with-efgtracker" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Track the Epic Free Games with EFGTracker" /><published>2026-05-16T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2026-05-16T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/track-the-epic-free-games-with-efgtracker</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Gaming" /><category term="Epic Games" /><category term="GitHub" /><category term="Gaming" /><category term="Automation" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[With X API's free tier gone, EFGTracker is a simple way to keep track of the Epic free games from GitHub notifications.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">So… I tried vibe coding (finally)</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/so-i-tried-vibe-coding-finally" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="So… I tried vibe coding (finally)" /><published>2025-08-31T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2025-08-31T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/so-i-tried-vibe-coding-finally</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Vibecoding" /><category term="Vibe Coding" /><category term="AI" /><category term="Copilot" /><category term="GPT-5" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[My first vibe coding experiment: building the FrenchPing game with GPT-5 and Copilot Agent mode, and the messy TTS and code that came with it.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Prevent Logitech GHUB to scan dirs and delete auto-detected profiles</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/prevent-logitech-ghub-to-scan-dirs-and-delete-auto-detected-profiles" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Prevent Logitech GHUB to scan dirs and delete auto-detected profiles" /><published>2024-12-01T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2024-12-01T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/prevent-logitech-ghub-to-scan-dirs-and-delete-auto-detected-profiles</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Gaming" /><category term="Logitech" /><category term="Gaming" /><category term="Troubleshooting" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Stop Logitech G HUB from scanning your directories and deleting auto-detected game profiles by editing its applications.json file.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Too big of a repo?</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/too-big-of-a-repo" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Too big of a repo?" /><published>2024-02-15T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2024-02-15T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/too-big-of-a-repo</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Dev" /><category term="Git" /><category term="Version Control" /><category term="Tips" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Speed up cloning huge Git repositories with a shallow clone: pull a single branch and only the latest commits using git clone --depth.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Elastic Agent with Synthetics tests on Kubernetes</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/elastic-agent-with-synthetics-tests-on-kubernetes" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Elastic Agent with Synthetics tests on Kubernetes" /><published>2023-12-21T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2023-12-21T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/elastic-agent-with-synthetics-tests-on-kubernetes</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Elastic" /><category term="Elastic Agent" /><category term="Synthetics" /><category term="Kubernetes" /><category term="Elasticsearch" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How to configure Elastic Agent for Synthetics browser tests on Kubernetes using the elastic-agent-complete image and the right non-root user.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/renshuki.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Prevent OpenVPN to start automatically on Mac</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/prevent-openvpn-client-to-start-automatically-on-macos" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Prevent OpenVPN to start automatically on Mac" /><published>2022-05-08T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2022-05-08T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/prevent-openvpn-client-to-start-automatically-on-macos</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Mac" /><category term="OpenVPN" /><category term="macOS" /><category term="launchctl" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How to stop OpenVPN Connect from launching automatically at boot on macOS using launchctl and by removing it from Login Items.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/profile_2.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/profile_2.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Gamify your tasks</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/gamify-your-work" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Gamify your tasks" /><published>2022-04-23T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2022-04-23T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/gamify-your-work</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Production" /><category term="Productivity" /><category term="Habitica" /><category term="Gamification" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Turn boring todo lists into a game with Habitica, the RPG-style task app where you earn XP and items for completing your daily tasks.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/habitica.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/habitica.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Quarantine in Japan - Day 7</title><link href="https://fcbrossard.net/blog/quarantine-day7" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Quarantine in Japan - Day 7" /><published>2022-01-05T00:00:00+09:00</published><updated>2022-01-05T00:00:00+09:00</updated><id>https://fcbrossard.net/blog/quarantine-day7</id><author><name>François-Clément Brossard</name></author><category term="Misc" /><category term="Japan" /><category term="Quarantine" /><category term="Travel" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Day 7, the final hotel day of quarantine in Japan: the last saliva test, packing up, and the anxiety of a possible positive result.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/profile_2.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://fcbrossard.net/assets/profile_2.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>