Julien aka Luj.
PhD Student in Software Supply Chain Security.
NixOS enthusiast and contributor. Emacs nerd. NixOS Steering Committee member.
Other interests include functional programming languages, software security, formal verification.
Available for freelance projects.
He/Him
May occasionally toot in french.
| homepage | https://luj.fr |
We finally have wayland alternatives to EXWM that so great!!! I've tried ewm [1], which gets the work done, but ultimately adopted Reka [2], which single handedly solves all the problems I ever had with EXWM (including the fact that emacs is not in the critical path of your WM).
[1]: https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm
[2]: https://codeberg.org/tazjin/reka
If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritely ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.
We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.
My month of January: submitted 3 paper + made a camera ready version.
I was warned about last year of PhD...
In case you missed the talks, their recordings have been released:
https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub5132/BHNWLN-rosa-backdoor-detector.mp4
https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h2213/BYACG8-automatic-backdoor-detection-in-ci.mp4
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Andrew Nesbitt
Dimitri Kokkonis