Hi, I’m Sylvain Bougerel

This blog is about my personal fun, software projects and my passion for the environment. I am starting this blog with the goal of writing once a week.

Typing faster

I’ve always been rather ashamed of my shabby typing speed. When I code, I sometimes spend as much time correcting as writing. It’s painful to watch, it’s such a dent on productivity. Last March, I started to use MonkeyType and since June, I also added Keybr to my routine. It’s been 6 months, and I’ve made noticeable progress. Not as fast as I hoped to be frank, but I’m satisfied with the results so far....

August 24, 2024 · 4 min · Sylvain Bougerel

Domino and tromino tiling sorcery

Since I’m currently looking for a job, I try to train daily on Leetcode. I started with a now classic study plan, originally authored by Yang Shun Tay and hosted on Grind75. Eventually though, Leetcode presented me with a tiling problem that I found immediately appealing: Domino and tromino tiling. Spoiler alert: the following content reveals the solution to the problem If you don’t know the problem yet, take a look at the description in the link....

May 18, 2024 · 6 min · Sylvain Bougerel

Logseq as Org-roam on the go (Part III)

This is the last part of a 3 part series: Introduction, Logseq and Termux on mobile Improving Logseq and Org-roam interoperability Automating synchronisation (this part) This post will cover automating synchronisation between the 2 mediums, to the point where you will almost forget it is there. It’s not perfect (merge conflicts sometime arise) but for the most part, it works flawlessly. Automatic synchronisation in Emacs There’s many ways to automatically synchronise Git repositories on your desktop....

April 27, 2024 · 7 min · Sylvain Bougerel

Logseq as Org-roam on the go (Part II)

This is the second part of a 3 part series: Introduction, Logseq and Termux on mobile Improving Logseq and Org-roam interoperability (this part) Automating synchronisation This part covers my Emacs configuration and package to enable Org-roam and Logseq interoperability. I personally use Emacs on my desktop and Logseq on the go, but if you plan to use both on the same machine, this post should apply as well. Org-roam configuration I’ve introduced some of it in my previous post, to detail Logseq’s configuration....

April 13, 2024 · 6 min · Sylvain Bougerel

Logseq as Org-roam on the go (Part I)

This is the first part of a 3 part series: Introduction, Logseq and Termux on mobile (this part) Improving Logseq and Org-roam interoperability Automating synchronisation I started to use Logseq in the fall of 2023, and with almost 9 months of use, I’m confident it is a great mobile application for Org-roam. Some applications do a better job at being compatible with the Org file format (e.g. organice) however they do not support Org-roam readily....

April 8, 2024 · 9 min · Sylvain Bougerel

My first post from org-mode

This post was exported from Emacs org-mode (with org-roam) using ox-hugo. Yes, that’s all there is to that post. But I’m gonna leave it there for keepsake.

February 20, 2024 · 1 min · Sylvain Bougerel

Programming a fast integral sine

I started playing puzzles on codingames.com recently. Although many challenges can be solved by beginners, getting to the top spots on the ladder for the toughest challenges demands a lot of time investment. Which makes it a great game. The game I focus on is Mad Pod Racing, it plays in an arena where your bot meets another bot. Your bot has a finite amount of time for each move. This became an excuse to look into approx fast integer operations....

November 12, 2018 · 11 min · Sylvain Bougerel