Not entirely sure why, but flooded with memories today, this year, 11 years after ( Read more... )

No precise date on this event, but by that time, it was pretty clear.

It had become clearer to me that we probably worked much better as friends, but as it would turn out, it wouldn't be possible for a while. Maybe some day.

For a while, I had been finding my work at NEC/Cray a bit... I don't know, like I wasn't going anywhere. I was making good money, and the light amount of work allowed me to work on a lot of things on the side, but I figured I should start thinking about going out and taking on something new. I just thought about it, though, and never really did ( Read more... )

That day, I started as a Cray employee, although I was sitting at the same desk, and not much really changed (they did lay off the receptionist ( Read more... )

Earlier in the year, I was researching doing useful web sites, I found Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, which was both very interesting and also quite well illustrated, with Philip Greenspun's own photos. It also led me to read his Travels with Samantha, which not only caused me to reconsider my stance on photography, but to take it on ( Read more... )

Well, we gave up at some point. I think we were in an in-between of technologies, after PC and console studios started inflating to astronomical budgets, but before smaller budget games for Palms and cellphones became viable (a segment where small game development studios seem to thrive nowadays).

So we open sourced Quadra under the Lesser General ( Read more... )

Sometimes in the month of May 1998, Stéphane, Rémi, Sylvain, Guy and I started Ludus Design, our own game development company. We initially only had Quadra (now open source, and called "Remtris 3" back then), which I was porting to Linux/Svgalib.

I remember reading the announcement, linked from Slashdot I think, that Netscape was going to open source the upcoming version 5 of their Navigator (of note there never was a version 5 after all, they jumped right to 6, heh).

Ah, those were the good old time, where people like jwz threw parties with people like Mistress Midori as host for a free ( Read more... )

Rather quickly after being hired at Calculus, I decided that it wasn't really the best place for me to work at, after being told I came in late to work by a manager (I came in at 10am instead of the 9:30am maximum time), after having worked until the wee hours of the morning ( Read more... )

Started working at SIBN Calculus (the SIBN standing for "Société Informatique de la Banque Nationale"). That was interesting in a few ways, and rather depressing in others ( Read more... )