I am Sébastien Le Callonnec (tychobrailleur). I live in Ireland. I am a software engineer, working primarily in Java, but in my spare time, I also do some Elisp. I am passionate about coding, and I also love photography, typography (anything that’s “-graphy”, really), radio, and basket-ball. So Weblogism is about a bit about all this. I used to try to keep to one topic, but I’m a very curious person, and definitely interested in tons of subjects, so don’t expect any logic in here!
A Bit of History
Weblogism started on October 17th 2003 and was initially hosted by stup.org and Nidhogg who kindly offered me to start my very own weblog – probably to let me satisfy my egocentric pulsions. It was then powered by .Text, a .net blog tool. It was a fairly easy-to-use system, but somehow could hardly be customised.
The Design
Weblogism used to run on Texpattern, but is now an Emacs-generated static website, which, in all fairness, makes it a lot easier to maintain.
The logo uses the Ludovico Modern + Ludovico Modern Expert font, designed by Torbjörn Olsson in 1995. See Design Typografi Produktion, nr 4 vol 4, September 1995, p. 9.
Visual materials have been created with Inkscape and the Gimp.
Weblogism has also been created thanks to a few dozens pots full of coffee.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Lewis Carroll, the Monty Python and Harper Lee after whom the sections of this site have been named – and thanks to Dean Allen after whose “Textism” I made up the name “Weblogism” – to be pronounced like “neologism”, funly enough.