About

Also available in French.

I’m Georges Cubas. I started programming in the mid-1980s on the Amstrad CPC 464 my father had bought, and I’ve never really stopped since.

What interests me

I like systems with simple rules that produce complicated behavior: a game, a simulation, a parser, an experiment with an AI. I also like building things to see how far they can go, even when they’re useless. My Roguelike is one of them.

I like science fiction because it lets us look at our world from the outside and explore alternatives to reality, in a more enjoyable way than philosophy does. I’ve written a few pieces about it, like When We Stop Deciding - IBM, Asimov, and the Accountability Gap.

Sociology interests me too, to understand our world from the inside this time. It will be my field of study when I go back to university.

This blog

This blog is a notebook. I keep the solutions that took me a while to find so I don’t have to look for them twice, and maybe so someone else doesn’t have to either. There are also texts unrelated to tech, in the culture section.

This is the fourth version of the site. It started around 2006 on the Opera platform, then Tumblr, then WordPress. Today it’s a static site generated with Quartz, and I explained how in this post (in French).

Work

I have an industrial computing engineering degree (ENSIAME, 2003) but above all I’ve been a PHP developer for about twenty years, freelance and then as an employee, working with Symfony and PrestaShop. I work remotely from the Deux-Sèvres region of France (not far from the navel of the world).

Since May 2024 I’ve been at ClubVET, a veterinary purchasing group. Before that there was 50 Factory (motorcycle parts), Coommunication, a Swiss agency, for four years, and above all Pourchienetchat, a Luxembourg pet shop that I followed from its creation to its closure. The details are on LinkedIn.

Find me

Mastodon, Github, Dev.to, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn and Malt.