Auguste Baum
Auguste Baum
Auguste Baum
Hi, I’m Auguste Baum! I’m a software developer based in Paris, France. A blog on technology, ways of working, political sides of tech (e.g. privacy) and shower thoughts.
Latest Posts
LLMs are expensive 2025-11-20 I just burned through $5 of OpenRouter credits to solve one programming task (editing existing code inside Zed), and it is not done yet. I used Claude Sonnet 3.7-thinking and Claude Haiku 4.5, and yeah, it...
I got a NuPhy keyboard 2025-11-19 I also got a NuPhy Air75 v2 for my birthday! I really like the low-profile switches and the wireless-ness, and also the not-a-gajillion-dollars-ness. I went with the “Wisteria” tactile switches; after...
I got an Arduino kit 2025-11-18 I got an Arduino kit for my birthday! I hope to become more knowledgeable with electronics and low-level programming.
How to save matplotlib figures deterministically 2025-11-17 I have been working on plots at work, and I would really like our test suite to use snapshot testing: [W]riting tests where you compare the output of some function to a...
TIL: Links in RSS feeds should be absolute 2025-11-16 So I recently got this site added to PowRSS, an RSS feed aggregator for Indie Web sites. Nice! Except, no. None of the links to my posts work currently: they all point to something...
TIW: How do I get Nix to cache tarballs? 2025-11-15 Today I wondered: every new code project I create has a file called shell.nix starting with something like: let nixpkgs = fetchTarball...
My ideal browser 2025-11-14 I love Qutebrowser. It’s a very cool, minimal, get-out-of-my-way kind of tool. Most importantly, it is designed to be used exclusively with the keyboard. But I am missing a few things, mostly things that you...
Use unique email addresses 2025-11-13 It would be nice to be able to quickly create a unique email address for each new service I sign up to. That way, I could easily avoid spam (just delete the address) and tell which credentials to...
Meta will read your DMs. Use Signal! 2025-11-12 In a turn of events, Meta will now openly scan DMs on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. This is a blatant invasion of your privacy and will further allow Meta to police what users can share...
Google wants XSLT dead 2025-11-11 Yesterday I talked about RSS. RSS feeds tend to be powered by XML, a language sort of like HTML, but not exactly. That is why, when you click on a “RSS” link on a website, your browser either downloads a...
Google wants RSS dead 2025-11-10 I really like RSS. It’s a piece of technology that really embodies the beauty of the web: small, simple, but powerful and ubiquitous as a result. I use RSS every day to find new things to read, by way of...
On the Works in Progress magazine 2025-11-09 So since I published TIR: Magical systems thinking, I thought “Hey I only learned about this Works in Progress magazine yesterday, like 3 hours before publishing the post. Where does it come...
TIR: Magical systems thinking 2025-11-08 Today I read Magical systems thinking, by Ed Bradon in the Works in Progress magazine. What a cool-looking magazine! The article discusses the aura of systems thinking in today’s upper level...
Split a jj revision based on its history 2025-11-07 Has this ever happened to you? You’re working on a change: # hello.md aaa You make a new change: # hello.md aaabbb But you forgot to jj new! Thus, you find yourself with a change that...
20% Progress Report (1) 2024-12-06 Since May of this year I have been working as a software engineer at Probabl. I’m allowed to pursue personal projects during 20% of my working hours (one full day per week), as long as it’s reasonably...