George Z

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🇱🇧 expat living in 🇨🇭
PhD Student in Programming languages at the University of St.Gallen.
AUB and EPFL Alumni.
Programmer for more than 10 years.

Header picture is the green oval with the Fisk and Bliss buildings painted by Tarek Bohsali. It's in this corner where my best memories of AUB are.

Sitehttps://grgz.me
LanguagesEN / FR / عربي
PronounsHe/Him
Bluesky@grgzkhr.bsky.social
why am i enjoying ocaml and ppxlib so much?

Après la France et l'Allemagne, la Suisse ? Allez on croise les doigts pour que cette prise de conscience soit suivie d'actes concrets

La Confédération va-t-elle tourner le dos à Microsoft? https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/article/la-confederation-veut-reduire-sa-dependance-a-microsoft-29216786.html

#foss #opensource #microslop #linux

La Confédération va-t-elle tourner le dos à Microsoft?

La Confédération affirme vouloir "réduire progressivement et à long terme sa dépendance vis-à-vis de Microsoft", rapportait dimanche la NZZ am Sonntag. À rebours de ses décisions des dernières années, cette annonce est saluée par plusieurs politiques et spécialistes.

Radio Télévision Suisse
`are_you.ok()?` is a cute rust expression

Indentation in python can be whatever, right? the first nested scope can be indented with 4 spaces, one deeper can be indented with 6, and its sibling with 7.

So, here me out:

I propose to do move away from geometric indentation to Fibonacci indentation.

Geometric indentation: a scope nested n-deep is indented with c*n leading spaces (c>0)

Fibonacci indentation: a scope nested n-deep is indented with F_{n+2}-1 leading spaces.

Here's a screenshot of what some code would look like

You know, when you think about it, practically every symphony orchestra is a cover band, and nobody busts their chops about it.

#coverbands #music #musicsnob

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

POPL has been very productive and fun this year on a personal level. I've met a whole lot of cool folks and I got a lot of pointers to follow up on during my poster session :)

Fingers crossed I'm there next year!

@joomy i could see people nod and at least one that was visibly surprised that plugging "Co" everywhere just worked. So congrats on the successful talk :3
@joomy cool talk!