• Gamify your tasks

    This logo is property of Habitica I’ve been using many apps for managing my todos in the past, here a few ones: jrnl Trello Google Todo List A simple txt file / Google Doc That said, todo-lists can get pretty boring over time but I found Habitica at some point....

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  • Capture the Flag, Google CTF 2019 upcoming, Satoshi's Treasure... 🚩

    Far from being an expert in security but I’ve been more and more interested in CTFs challenges on my free time. It’s a good cut-off from my daylight work and also a good alternative to programming and I really enjoy this new hobby. Also, Google is launching new CTF quals...

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  • How to disable Google Chrome dark mode on macOS

    With the latest Google Chrome updates, if you use macOS dark theme, Google Chrome will switch in dark mode as well by default. Usually I love dark themes for everything, but I’m not a fan of of the dark theme for Chrome provided by Google — I dunno why, maybe...

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  • PC Flavored Mac keyboard mapping

    It’s already have been two months, but I switched from my PC workstation on Linux to a Macbook for work — What a big slap in my face. No seriously, ok I have an iPhone but I never used a Mac with iOS before (or really briefly for doing some...

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  • Fonts I'm using for coding

    Here is a modest list of the fonts I have been using along my 15 years of coding/programming. If you read those lines, I assume you are looking for a good font which is pleasant to code with, easy to read with distinct characters (ex: O / 0 or l...

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  • Google Hangouts Chat first review (after one week)

    The story started when Microsoft has acquired Skype in 2011. Technically speaking I’ve nothing against Skype, however Microsoft has made some « bad choices » — in my opinion. I was happy and satisfied with Skype until Microsoft decided to kill P2P support from it. Maybe they did that due to performance...

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  • Welcome!

    def welcome(name) puts "Hi #{name}, welcome to fcbrossard.net" end welcome('Visitor') #=> prints 'Hi Visitor, welcome to fcbrossard.net' to STDOUT. Welcome to my new website. Back to 2006 the popularity of Wordpress was not as it is now (you can check on Google Trends if you don’t trust me). I chose...

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