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Benjamin Geer

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy

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Software developer and ex-academic (sociology, conceptual history, Arabic culture, etc.), sometimes publishes classical sheet music, lives in Paris.

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@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 4:06 PMReposted by @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy

after reading one of the previous threads I bought the author’s book and it was a super interesting way to learn about solar power

@edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 7:14 AMReposted by @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy

This is exceptionally good.

> “Robot” Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot

https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 7:06 AM

Is it just me, or does the "work" motif in the Abba song "Money, Money, Money" (https://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0?&t=9) sound like the one in Schubert's "Gretchen am Spinnrade"? https://youtu.be/N9GqYa5sqXY

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 2:32 PM

@juergen_hubert @raganwald I enjoyed these: https://nyupress.org/9781479855964/stories-of-piety-and-prayer/

@damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 12:57 AMReposted by @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy

Vale Margaret Hamilton.
She was a Software Engineer.
She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering:
"When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […]

[Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement.  She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.
@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 8:10 PM

@b0rk I used to merge main into a feature branch periodically in the hope of dealing with merge conflicts a little bit at a time, instead of all at once in a huge mass when the feature branch was done. But the result in the end was always an incomprehensible merge nightmare in which I had to […]

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 6:27 PM

Une bonne nouvelle sur l’oiseau dont il
s’agit dans le film Le chant des forêts :

La chasse au grand tétras est désormais interdite en France https://lareleveetlapeste.fr/la-chasse-au-grand-tetras-plus-gros-oiseau-terrestre-sauvage-deurope-est-desormais-interdite-en-france/

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 1:00 PMReposted by @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy

Writing safe hypermedia apps for a resource-constrained world

I've written some tutorials on using htmx to write web applications in Go and Rust, with SQLite and PostgreSQL:

https://benjamingeer.eu/en/post/hypermedia/

#go #golang #rust #rustlang #htmx #hypermedia #sqlite #postgres #postgresql

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 9:36 PM

@thisweekinrust This might be of interest: https://benjamingeer.eu/en/post/hypermedia-rust/

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 9:33 AM

@Gurre @ShaulaEvans There are a lot of common English girls’ names like that: Rose, Daisy, Violet, Olivia, Lily, Hazel, Holly, Heather… not so many boys’ names, I think.

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 1:00 PM

Writing safe hypermedia apps for a resource-constrained world

I've written some tutorials on using htmx to write web applications in Go and Rust, with SQLite and PostgreSQL:

https://benjamingeer.eu/en/post/hypermedia/

#go #golang #rust #rustlang #htmx #hypermedia #sqlite #postgres #postgresql

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 9:11 AM

Créer des applications hypermédia sécurisées pour un monde aux ressources limitées

J'ai écrit des tutoriels sur l'utilisation de htmx pour développer des applications web en Go et en Rust, avec SQLite et PostgreSQL :

https://benjamingeer.eu/fr/post/hypermedia/

#go #golang #rust #rustlang […]

@martin.boitam.eu.ap.brid.gySep 23, 2026, 3:51 PMReposted by @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy

> this article isn’t intended simply as a guide for surviving Parisian summers without AC. Rather, I posit here that (re)learning to passively regulate the temperature in a dwelling — whether in Paris or elsewhere — can provide a good introduction to global energy management and planetary care […]

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyOct 2, 2026, 6:27 AM

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/117350114171384415

“passengers do not complain about trains they cannot take, because those trains do not exist”

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 7:48 PM

Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/09/out-now-low-tech-magazine-volume-iv/

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 7:44 PM

Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes https://globalcit.eu/needs-that-bind-materializing-nationality-in-post-ottoman-regimes/ #nationalism

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 5:46 AM

« Trente-six ans après la promesse d’une Europe sans frontières, les contrôles intérieurs se sont durablement réinstallés. Au nom de la sécurité, puis de la lutte contre l’immigration, l’exception est devenue la règle. » Mais où est passé Schengen ? […]

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 5:43 AM

« À Montreuil, les sols végétaux sont dégradés par la présence de traces de métaux importantes. Cela est notamment lié aux pratiques horticoles passées. Nous travaillons, à plusieurs jardiniers, scientifiques, fonctionnaires, activistes pour protéger la santé de tous et restaurer ces sols. » […]

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 5:26 AM

University of California officials “suggested that researchers help fund general operations by giving more research control to venture investors”.

Selling the Do-It-Yourself Public University http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/09/liner-note-57-selling-do-it-yourself.html

@benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 5:14 AM

Paris, une capitale qui vieillit ? https://metropolitics.org/Paris-une-capitale-qui-vieillit.html

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