Projects
Some professional and personal projects:
- Two Years a Teacher, series of articles about my time as a high school teacher (2022–2025).
- Thermodynamique.fr, the website of my textbook Thermodynamique de l’ingénieur (2015, 2018, 2021, in French). Free to download and remix. Translated in English in 2025 at thermodynamicsbook.com.
- Fluidmech.ninja, the homepage of the course in fluid mechanics that I taught at the University Otto von Guericke of Magdeburg, 2015–2020.
- Software scripts to create individualized university coursework assignments graded by the students themselves as anonymous peers, written with Germán Santa Maria (corresponding research article, 2020).
- Ihavenoads.com, for use by creators who don’t like advertising.
- FreeSteamTables.com, beautifully-formatted steam property tables for fast and convenient use in the classroom, whichever your convention for writing numbers.
- Linuxpreloaded.com and its French-language counterpart Linuxpréinstallé.com, curated lists of computer vendors selling hardware preinstalled with Linux, online since 2007.
- A thousand images (diagrams and photos) uploaded to Wikimedia Commons over ten years, with many republished in books, magazines, and research articles, and reused across Wikipedia in 50 languages.
Some of my former projects:
- Majusculesaccentuées.fr [archive], a simple webpage to help French-speaking Windows users type accented capital letters on their keyboard.
- Gnulinuxmatters.org [archive, placeholder], a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for software liberties to a very large audience. I lead this group with Gustavo Narea full time from 2006 to 2008. One product of the organization was taken over by other people and lives on as Getgnulinux.org. Many conference talks given, including one at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress and the keynote of Ubucon 2007.
- Gendershouldntmatter.org [archive 1, archive 2], my first attempt at tackling gender inequalities and imbalance, in my community at the time. Three conference talks given, including one at the 2009 Chemnitzer Linux Tage.
- Gulls (2009) was a self-published book of black-and-white photos of birds.