https://bastien.page/Recent content on bastienHugoen-usSun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bastien.page/about/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bastien.page/about/<p>I write here as <strong>bastien</strong>.</p> <p>In daylight I&rsquo;m Linesh Sebastian — an engineering leader who likes to build stuff (sometimes useful, sometimes because am bored). I&rsquo;m not loud online; this site is the quiet version of what I&rsquo;d say if you sat down across from me.</p> <p>If something here is useful and you want to talk through it, the form below reaches me. I usually reply within a day.</p> <form action="https://formspree.io/f/mnjrkped" method="POST"> <fieldset> <label>your name <input type="text" name="name" required></label> <label>your email <input type="email" name="email" required></label> <label>message <textarea name="message" rows="6" required></textarea></label> <input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off"> <button type="submit">send</button> </fieldset> </form>https://bastien.page/reading/unwritten-laws-of-engineering/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bastien.page/reading/unwritten-laws-of-engineering/<p>Original by W. J. King; revised by James G. Skakoon.</p>https://bastien.page/posts/my-development-setup/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://bastien.page/posts/my-development-setup/<p>A view I rarely leave. Most days it&rsquo;s one window — WezTerm tiled into a few panes, Neovim in one, a shell and lazygit in the others. None of this arrived all at once. My setup has been evolving for years, each piece replaced at its own pace, the whole thing slowly bending to my taste.</p> <h2 id="how-i-got-here">how I got here</h2> <p>It started with VS Code. Every helpful extension made the editor a little more crowded, and at some point the customization itself became the noise I was trying to avoid. The smaller my tools got, the more I trusted them.</p>