Olivier Philippon
@olivierphi.bsky.social
Passionate web developer since 1999.
Currently working on my open source “chess with pixel art characters” platform, Zakuchess 🙂
https://zakuchess.com/
Currently working on my open source “chess with pixel art characters” platform, Zakuchess 🙂
https://zakuchess.com/
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short about working at the coast guard
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
short about working at the coast guard
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any questions
August 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
any questions
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Take a 4 minute break to watch it. Take it. 4 minutes. Come on.
One of my favorite student films from the Calarts producers show this year was Giant Crush by Luke Lee (binsoo). Watch it!
youtu.be/N82ToSbjavM?...
youtu.be/N82ToSbjavM?...
GIANT CRUSH - Calarts Film 2025
YouTube video by binsoo
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Take a 4 minute break to watch it. Take it. 4 minutes. Come on.
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We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
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It was really valuable for me to stay at a single company long enough to live with the consequences of my own engineering decisions. To come face-to-face with my own technical debt.
It takes a few years for this to play out but IMO it's an important part of engineering growth.
It takes a few years for this to play out but IMO it's an important part of engineering growth.
January 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It was really valuable for me to stay at a single company long enough to live with the consequences of my own engineering decisions. To come face-to-face with my own technical debt.
It takes a few years for this to play out but IMO it's an important part of engineering growth.
It takes a few years for this to play out but IMO it's an important part of engineering growth.
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New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! minimaxir.com/2025/01/writ...
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
minimaxir.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! minimaxir.com/2025/01/writ...
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The Moon’s shadow on Earth captured with a camera on ispace’s Hakuto-R lander from lunar orbit during a solar eclipse on April 20, 2023
December 18, 2024 at 4:11 AM
The Moon’s shadow on Earth captured with a camera on ispace’s Hakuto-R lander from lunar orbit during a solar eclipse on April 20, 2023
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We made it!! 🫶🌈🎉
Thank you all for your support ❤️. We’ll keep working hard to make Django the best web framework it can be.
Thank you all for your support ❤️. We’ll keep working hard to make Django the best web framework it can be.
December 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
We made it!! 🫶🌈🎉
Thank you all for your support ❤️. We’ll keep working hard to make Django the best web framework it can be.
Thank you all for your support ❤️. We’ll keep working hard to make Django the best web framework it can be.
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"Free background-image remover in the browser!" ⚡️
Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.
Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.
December 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM
"Free background-image remover in the browser!" ⚡️
Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.
Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.
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Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"
November 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"
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Happy to say that this year we're up to 750k USD in paying Open Source maintainers. blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave...
We Just Gave $750,000 to Open Source Maintainers
In honor of the 4th year of our Open Source Pledge, we’re excited to continue driving this important conversation. See what we’ve accomplished in 2024 here.
blog.sentry.io
November 12, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Happy to say that this year we're up to 750k USD in paying Open Source maintainers. blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave...