Gabriel

Gabriel is a passionate software developer experienced with programming languages and tech stacks. He’s a big fan of open-source and contributes to projects. He also adores cats, so you might find some around here.

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2025

TIL: Conditional Dependencies in Rust

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You can conditionally include dependencies in Cargo.toml based on the compile target. If a crate requires SSE2 for example, put it in this section [target.'c...

Embedding Python in Elixir, it’s great

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Elixir is getting somewhat official support for Python: Embedding Python in Elixir, it’s Fine. While there are already other ways to run Python, the integrat...

Inventing on Principle

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I’ve only now discovered Bret Victor’s incredible talk Inventing on Principle. While you should definitely watch the entire talk, I was particularly fascinat...

How to send a Bluetooth file from a Mac

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While AirDrop is great for quickly sharing files between devices, it’s a non-starter for anything not Apple. Luckily, other standards like Bluetooth exist. U...

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2024

I analysed 1 Million digits of Pi

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I analysed the distribution of numbers in the first million digits of π. You can download them for example from PILookup (direct download link) if you want t...

Always commit

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No, this is not a relationship or life guide; it’s only meant for software, specifically Version Control Software, short VCS. I also only use Git; the princi...

Neon Grow - Get big or get eaten

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This is my take on an io game. You’re a big blob competing to become the biggest blob. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? To spice things up, I also added a few p...

Life and Death

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You may have heard of Conway’s Game of Life, an infinite grid of dying and living cells. It’s normally a zero-player game and the only parameter is the initi...

Even More Features for WoBot

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This article is the third part in the WoBot series and the last for the moment. All the features WoBot currently has should now be covered.

Balanced - a Real Time Strategy prototype

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Recently, I implemented one of many game ideas. Let’s start with the basics: each match involves two players sending troops to defeat their opponent’s castle...

More Features for WoBot

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The Rust saga continues; here’s the promised follow-up to the first post about WoBot. Let’s talk about some more features WoBot has.

Evaluating Frontmatter with a Jekyll Plugin

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Jekyll pages have a metadata field date, which can be set to show when they were updated1. For the homepage, I wanted it to be the current (at build time) da...

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