Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery

Cicada 3301 is an organization who used puzzles to possibly recruit codebreakers/linguists from the public. The first internet puzzle started on January 4, 2012, and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 4, 2013, and a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014.

November 17, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

MongoDB Schema design

MongoDB Schema Design – Many small documents or fewer large documents? Source : Stackoverflow Modeling One-to-Few An example of “one-to-few” might be the addresses for a person. This is a good use case for embedding – you’d put the addresses in an array inside of your Person object. One-to-Many An example of “one-to-many” might be parts for a product in a replacement parts ordering system. Each product may have up to several hundred replacement parts, but never more than a couple thousand or so....

November 17, 2018 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

Facebook live using FFmpeg – and nodejs

Facebook Live using FFmpeg Play h.264 video stream in html page FFmpeg-based Live stream via Python PyLivestream

November 12, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Exploring calendar/booking apps in reactjs

Looking to build a calendar app in React. You are not alone. I did some research to see what the world published on this so far, and here is what I have found. Room Booking System A room booking system built with MongoDB, Express, Node.js and ReactJS. This one has a lot going on. But it’s interesting to have a look at it. It seems like it’s a uni project or something… at least it’s organised as such....

October 25, 2018 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Open source UI Kits pour le Web

UI Kit Site: https://getuikit.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/uikit/uikit Stream Ui Kit Site: https://htmlstream.com/templates/stream-ui-kit Basé sur Bootstrap. One Nexus Site: http://www.onenexus.io/ Basé sur Synergy, un framework front-end pour la génération de composant UI et Kayzen, un systeme de grille CSS – tous réalisé par la même équipe. Milligram Simple Juste 2kb https://milligram.io/ Tabler Un des meilleurs UI de dashboard Open Source. Basé sur Bootstrap Le code est clean La logique est claire et bien conçue....

October 17, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Open source UI Kits & themed frontend for the web

Sleek Dashboard  Demo: Sleek Demo site/ GitHub: https://github.com/tafcoder/sleek-dashboard  Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard Template and UI Kit – and yeah sleeeeek indeed – like I really love it. Great work by tafcoder.  UI Kit Site: https://getuikit.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/uikit/uikit A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces. Well suited for website, landing pages etc. Simple, straightforward. Also, nice extra: Autocomplete plugins for both Atom and Sublime Text 3....

October 17, 2018 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Install docker on debian with Ansible

Here is a playbook for Ansible to install Docker and Docker Compose on Debian. You can of course, use a role from Galaxy. You have Gerling’s version or Debops (Ansible stack for Debian). But here I wanted to implement the install guide from Docker – and translate this into an Ansible playbook (which then should be turn into a custom role for more reusability). The official guide give use the following install steps:...

September 29, 2018 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

Empathy is the new black

For what it’s worth, I have been noticing a raising interest for empathy in the past few years. It’s been popping everywhere from a variety of fields, either in business and entrepreneurship, human resources and management to more more remote fields like design and product development as well as the obvious therapy and education fields. Science seems to have discovered a couple of years ago that we are wired for it:but science isn’t really everything there is to it – I mean look at this article about this lady being a lead researcher on empathy, and she still managed to bullied colleagues and staff....

September 28, 2018 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

stop and remove all docker containers

Simple. You can make an alias and it to your bash profile :

September 27, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

What is school for? (And other unconventional opinions on school)

I am not bashing school – but I think we need more conversations on this topic. Here are a couple of videos which I think raise some interesting points to think about. Don’t Stay in School A rap video that went viral a few years ago, from And the follow up video, addressing comments:What is school for? A more recent video from Prince EA Teachers React to original video on school from Prince EA...

September 17, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

WooCommerce and Russia

Here is a little research project I did at request to figure out all the gateways, if you want to sell stuff in russian speaking countries – turns out Stripe or Paypal are not exactly going to cover all your needs. So here is the results of my research on the topic. Feel free to add in the comments if you have some extra input on the topic. Yandex Money / Kassa The first plugin is from Dayes Design :...

September 11, 2018 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

Lean Impact – NGO business model the smart way

Couple of notes : Impact is a the third parameter to be added to the traditional Growth / Value focus Separate end users and funders. Change the funding models to facilitate experimentatino on the early stage Scaling to early also happen to the non-profit – with similar issues are the in the traditional business Separate end users and funders.

September 8, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Douglas Adams 3 rules of innovation

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

September 6, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

3 interesting read on innovation

[Why You Don’t Understand “Disruption” ]1 by Bill Barnett where you learn that Kodak invented Instagram in the 90’s. What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like where Steve Blank share some knowledge on innovation processes inside an organisation Optimize when you can, standardize if you must. Not 100% on innovation but still important to understand how to approach these two parameters of every technological project

September 5, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Marketing 101 – 1 – Markets are conversations

Ok so you want to up your marketing game and you are looking for recommendations where to start. Here is the first post of a serie where I share with you what I think are the best references and guiding principles in marketing. This is stuff I have collected, read and applied over the course of more than 10 years and I will probably keep updating it as time pass....

September 4, 2018 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

Data Warehouse vs Data Lake

September 4, 2018 · 0 min · Johann Savalle

The Principal Agent Problem & Hayek’s Knowledge problem

The Principal Agent Problem The Principal Agent Problem occurs when one person (the agent) is allowed to make decisions on behalf of another person (the principal). In this situation, there are issues of moral hazard and conflicts of interest. The Principal Agent ProblemHayek’s Knowledge problem Frequently mentioned as the most important essays in the history of economic thought, Hayek’s essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society” question the fundamental problem that economics exists to solve?...

September 4, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

self-publishing vs publisher

Also read this piece by tim ferris : How to Write a Bestselling Book This Year — The Definitive Resource List and How-To Guide

August 29, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

designers eyes problem

August 29, 2018 · 0 min · Johann Savalle

Page Builders and WYSIWYG in JS / React / Vue

Gramateria https://www.gramateria.com/GrapeJS https://grapesjs.com/GrapesJS is a multi-purpose, Web Builder Framework. It can be used to create web pages, Newsletters, Native Mobile Applications, Native Desktop Applications (eg. Vuido), PDFs (eg. React PDF), etc. DanteII https://michelson.github.io/dante2/“Just” another medium clone built on top of DraftJs – in React SlateJs https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slateReact Draft WYSIWYG Just a react editor https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwygFroala A multi framework editor Warning : not free. Cost minimum 144 dollars and up to 1800 / year....

August 24, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle