• Make it Stick book review

    I’ve finished reading a very insightful book about learning and teaching: Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Marc A. McDaniel at Harvard University Press.

    I am very grateful to Michael Estner for recommending this book to me. I feel it is now my turn to promote it.

    Cover from the "Make it stick" book
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  • Yocto Binary Distributions presentation

    Here are the slides of the “Building and Maintaining Binary Distributions with the Yocto Project” presentation I gave at the Embedded Linux Conference in Vienna.

    The abstract I submitted is a good way to describe my presentation:

    Imagine a world in which you can try the Yocto Project without even using it. This was possible in the past with the Ångström distribution, offering ready-made images which could be extended through binary package feeds. Though Ångström is long gone, the Yocto Project still has the ability to generate such images and package feeds. While system makers are still using this feature, the Yocto Project itself has never published such binaries.

    The Yocto Project, thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, has recently developed its abilities to support binary distributions, by creating tooling to verify the ability to upgrade the images built for its releases through package feeds, and to support managing a “local” distribution that can customize packages offered by an “upstream” distribution.

    Since Yocto is about recipes, I will first present a cookbook for building your own images so that they can be updated through package feeds. I will then describe the recently developed features related to binary distributions and what possibilities they open for the Yocto Project and its users.

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  • Digital Hygiene presentation

    Here’s a presentation I prepared for high school students in my area, but which actually targets any computer and smartphone user. Here are the main topics:

    • Get familiar with the biggest threats. Also learn about less frequent but also more advanced threats.
    • Protect your personal information and that of your contacts.
    • Protect your computer, your smartphone and the data they contain.
    • Improve your daily practice and the durability of your data.

    The presentation is available in English and in French.

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