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2026 3

  1. Portefeuille d'actions cotées en francs suisses, avec un accent sur le rendement
  2. Gold Pricing 2026-07-10
  3. US Margin Debt 2026-07-10

2025 9

  1. Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days - part 4: programming
  2. Gold pricing 2025-10-09 - the 4000$ edition
  3. Savonarazze - All_RGB in Ada
  4. Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days - part 3: entropy (with AI/Machine Learning!)
  5. Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days - part 2: the BZip2 format
  6. Real Rates Charts, 2025-05-02
  7. AZip 2.7.1 with Brute-Force recompression (new!)
  8. Gold pricing 2025-04-28
  9. Gold pricing 2025-02-11

2024 12

  1. Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days - part 1: intro
  2. Using HAC for scanning "full Ada" sources
  3. Fascination compression
  4. Emojism, the new Pointillism
  5. The new GNAVI, two weeks later
  6. GNAVI, after 20 years coma!
  7. Gold pricing 2024-04-15
  8. HAC version 0.30
  9. Gold pricing 2024-03-16
  10. Benchmarking the Generic Image Decoder (GID)
  11. Deliverability
  12. A PayPal activity report "improver" using Excel Writer

2023 16

  1. Advent of Code 2023, day 10
  2. Random global indices 2023-11-11
  3. LEA, a tiny but smart editor
  4. US yield curve - Snapshot 22-Sep-2023
  5. Avindex 1.0 - Snapshot 22-Sep-2023
  6. LEA: first steps as a "smart editor"
  7. HAC for native targets
  8. Yield curve
  9. Ceci n'est pas une quine
  10. LIBOR Farewell
  11. HAC version 0.26
  12. New colour theme with LEA: Solarized Light
  13. Gold pricing 2023-04-22
  14. Real Rates Charts, 2023-03-18
  15. Libor 2023-03-11
  16. Advent of Code 2022 in pictures

2022 33

  1. Margin Debt, snapshot November 2022
  2. SNB, October 2022
  3. LEA 0.85 - the Tabs are here!
  4. Real rates charts, 2022-11-20
  5. AZip, GWindows, the Windows API and another surprise!
  6. LEA 0.84 - the Build & Run button!
  7. AZip, GWindows, the Windows API and a good surprise!
  8. Yen va plus ? (le retour)
  9. Libor 2022-10-20
  10. Harpex 2022-10-21
  11. Gold pricing, 2022-10-04
  12. Libor rates (USD), 1-Sep-2022
  13. What are you sinking about?
  14. Consumers' inflation forecasts
  15. A little drop
  16. Gold pricing
  17. Is the Fed really tightening?
  18. HAC as an embedded compiler
  19. Ann: HAC v.0.2
  20. Zip-Ada: Zip64 extensions
  21. Ann: HAC v.0.1
  22. HAC, packages and PDF
  23. HAC: packages - now, the whole package!
  24. HAC: packages (work in progress)
  25. BNS janvier 2022
  26. QOI, the Quite OK Image Format, added to GID, the Generic Image Decoder
  27. The "all RGB" virus
  28. Une page de dystopie
  29. Fed assets 2022-02-02
  30. Transatlantic devaluation, January 2022
  31. Commodities & Containers
  32. Ann: HAC v.0.0996
  33. Screenshots of Advent of Code 2021 with HAC & LEA

2021 23

  1. Christmas 2021
  2. Advent of Code 2021
  3. News about GWindows.Scintilla
  4. Devaluation II
  5. BNS Octobre 2021
  6. HAC - range checks
  7. Harpex index - follow-up
  8. Devaluation
  9. A curiosity with LZMA data compression
  10. The HAC scripts invasion (follow-up)
  11. Harpex index & the Recurve tool for getting long-term data
  12. Bulletin volcanologique de la BNS - avril 2021
  13. Cleaning up HAC sources with AdaControl
  14. Economic index reconstruction using Recurve
  15. CBSG: added "next stage of growth" and "high-volume production"
  16. HAC v.0.095
  17. First steps in modularity for HAC
  18. (Le bilan de) la BNS est billionaire!
  19. L'énigme de l'été 1983 (ou 1984?)
  20. Gold trending II
  21. Gambling time!
  22. To raise or not to raise?
  23. 999 milliards

2020 57

  1. Game of Life, interactive
  2. HAC at work with shiny gold bags (Advent of Code, Day 7)
  3. HAC built with ObjectAda 10.2
  4. Advent of Code 2020 with HAC and LEA
  5. Some research with LZMA...
  6. The HAC scripts invasion
  7. HAC v.0.076: Ada.Directories-like subprograms
  8. HAC v.0.075: time functions: goodies for scripting tasks
  9. Zip-Ada v.57
  10. AZip 2.40 - Windows Explorer context menus
  11. GWindows: Desktop shortcuts and Explorer context menu
  12. Zip-Ada for Audacity backups
  13. AZip in action for duplicating a Thunderbird profile
  14. Zip-Ada: the new Zip_Entry_Stream output stream
  15. FOMO YOLO Stonks
  16. Fed monetization of U.S. Treasuries
  17. Together forever...
  18. Gold Trending
  19. Ridiculous P/E ratio contest
  20. BNS juillet 2020: +19,2 milliards de francs
  21. Pasta! Statistics
  22. AZip 2.38
  23. BNS juin 2020: +7,5 milliards de francs
  24. Bullshit Generator: the Next Steps
  25. LEA 0.74 - embedded Ada samples collection
  26. BNS mai 2020: +28,9 milliards
  27. New Fed Put Levels (Update: June 2020)
  28. Food inflation vs. interest rates (USA)...
  29. HAC v.0.072 - Subtype Indication
  30. LEA 0.71 - exception trace-back
  31. HAC v.0.07 - Exceptions and trace-backs
  32. HAC - recursive maze generator demo
  33. HAC: Web site
  34. The Three Lakes Problem
  35. BNS avril 2020: +49,6 milliards!
  36. Dollar Fubar
  37. HAC v.0.06 - Text File I/O
  38. HAC - Text_IO
  39. LEA v.0.70 - console input
  40. HAC - enumeration types
  41. HAC v.0.05 - variable-sized strings
  42. Indicateurs financiers 2020-04-26 - CH
  43. Financial indicators 2020-04-26 - US
  44. HAC - debug information
  45. HAC - compiler object instead of global data
  46. HAC - new Mandelbrot demo
  47. HAC - removed implicit type conversions!
  48. HAC - some progress
  49. Needle meets Bubble - 17-Mar-2020
  50. Needle meets Bubble - the Virus spreads in the US...
  51. Avindex 1.0 - Coronavirus phase 1 edition
  52. Needle meets Bubble - the Coronavirus correction
  53. BNS 2020-02-21
  54. "The stock market always goes up in the long run"
  55. Dow 30,000 soon...
  56. Never lose your progression with Pasta!
  57. LEA v.0.66

2019 25

  1. La production de Francs repart !
  2. The Corporate Bullshit Generator - the Crossroads of Data
  3. The Corporate Bullshit Generator - Business Agility Edition
  4. New GitHub mirrors
  5. BNS - Taux d'intérêts CHF - Septembre 2019
  6. Avindex 1.0 - 13-Aug-2019
  7. Gold and Monetary Base
  8. LIBOR inversion - continued
  9. AZip 2.35
  10. Pasta! - Levels 37 to 40
  11. Assouplissement...
  12. The new floor
  13. LIBOR yield curve inversion
  14. Triple top ?
  15. Etat du malade, 2 avril 2019
  16. No way back from QE
  17. Pasta! - Level 35
  18. Pasta! - Level 34
  19. Inflation et taux réels
  20. Piazza 4
  21. Vers de nouveaux records
  22. Zip-Ada and AZip presentations at FOSDEM 2019
  23. LIBOR, 29-Jan-2019 snapshot
  24. Mr. Powell, the Markets and the Volatility
  25. 2018... and the big picture

2018 40

  1. The foam bath - current bubbles - update #3
  2. No Christmas rally...
  3. It's the rates, stupid!
  4. Recurve update
  5. Tout à l'égout !
  6. AZip 2.25
  7. TeXCAD 4.51
  8. Zip-Ada v.55
  9. A bit of inflation in Japan?
  10. One-year USD LIBOR rate at 3.13% !
  11. Trained compression
  12. Yield shock?
  13. 1y USD LIBOR interest rate: 3.06%
  14. UBS, dix ans après...
  15. Rank in Pasta!'s high scores
  16. 1-year USD Libor hits 3%
  17. ReZip new "internal-only" mode
  18. Unblocking Excel Writer sheets under MS Excel 2013
  19. Benchmarks game - Ada vs. Python
  20. Drag & Drop between GWindows and Windows Explorer
  21. Setting up a simple AWS (Amazon Web Services) Web server
  22. The smallest advertising panel ever
  23. Libor 2018-07-17
  24. Summary of open-source projects - July 2018
  25. Ada Bar Codes - QR edition...
  26. Ada Bar Codes
  27. The ultimate cooling!
  28. Ada PDF Writer v.004
  29. Avindex 1.0 and other indices, snapshot 2018.03.22
  30. LEA with integrated mini-pseudo-compiler
  31. Poésie mathématique
  32. Avindex 1.0, snapshot 2018.03.04
  33. The Davos Top
  34. Big mistake!
  35. Bitcoin trending (2017 bubble)
  36. State of the Stock Market Bubble
  37. LEA progress: message box
  38. Not a bubble (3)
  39. Not a bubble (2)
  40. Not a bubble

2017 20

  1. La dégringolade des taux réels
  2. Largest bubble in history?
  3. Bitcoin (and Swiss Franc) manias
  4. Avindex 1.0, 2017-12-10
  5. L'effet Philishave
  6. Margin Debt, snapshot #3
  7. 1 Bitcoin = 10,000 US Dollars ?
  8. Silly Abbreviation Generator (SAG)
  9. Zip-Ada presentations about Deflate & LZMA
  10. Pasta! levels 21 to 30
  11. The trend is your friend...
  12. Temple of the Beastmen
  13. Pasta
  14. Up, up, up!
  15. Avindex 1.0, the Big Mac(ron) edition
  16. BNS février 2017
  17. Dow Jones and the twelve records
  18. Data and indices, 2017-02-10
  19. The Trump Tweet Twist #2
  20. BNS décembre 2016

2016 38

  1. The Trump Tweet Twist
  2. Retrospective 2016
  3. Avindex 1.0, "The Donald" edition
  4. L'effet Trump
  5. GID release #06 - with Recurve, a chart data recovery tool
  6. Zip-Ada v.52 - featuring LZMA compression
  7. AZip 2.0
  8. La BNS double encore la mise !
  9. Economie septembre 2016
  10. LZMA parametrization
  11. LZMA compression - a few charts
  12. Taux négatifs - toujours plus bas!
  13. LZMA compression explained
  14. GLOBE_3D: now, a bit of fog...
  15. GLOBE_3D Release 2016-07-05 - "Blender edition"
  16. Touché, coulé
  17. GLOBE_3D: non-convex objects with transparency
  18. GLOBE_3D: most image formats now available for textures
  19. Wavefront importer for GLOBE_3D
  20. Multitexturing with GLOBE_3D - Doom 3 scene
  21. Visual debugging with GLOBE_3D
  22. Multitexturing with GLOBE_3D
  23. A HD video capture from GLOBE_3D
  24. Des Pesos et des Francs
  25. BNS - monnaie centrale - état de mars 2016
  26. Zip-Ada v.50
  27. Hoarding cash
  28. Visual Deflating
  29. Deflating...
  30. Playing with limited-length Huffman trees
  31. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #8, "Rock-solid balance sheet" edition
  32. Le long voyage du Métro de Bucarest
  33. Corporate Bullshit Generator - tons of new words...
  34. Could Double in 2016... err... sorry... Could Go to zero.
  35. Baltic Dry Index
  36. Ada PDF Writer - first release !
  37. Candy crash...
  38. A year start "on the rocks" !

2015 25

  1. The foam bath - current bubbles - update #2
  2. Mathpaqs release 19-Dec-2015
  3. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #7, Junk Bonds edition
  4. Ces beaux billets de mille francs!
  5. Le long plongeon des taux
  6. BNS - Monnaie Centrale - septembre 2015
  7. Swiss Market Index's Book Value
  8. The Corporate Bullshit Generator - new rhetorical forms...
  9. Inflation - paradoxe
  10. TeXCAD 4.5, with parametric curves
  11. Mathpaqs Web page
  12. Margin Debt, snapshot #2
  13. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #6
  14. AZip 1.28
  15. Swiss Franc monetary base, status May 2015
  16. Home alone
  17. Yen va plus ?
  18. Taux négatifs, mois 5
  19. She is 24 !
  20. GID release #04
  21. Steganography
  22. La FINMA et l'épargne
  23. First week with GNOGA
  24. AZip 1.27
  25. Le plancher a cédé...

2014 33

  1. US Dollar Monetary Base: +358 Billion in one week !
  2. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #5
  3. Fable boursière
  4. The foam bath - current bubbles - update #1
  5. Decrypting economics news language
  6. Stock Market Invincible
  7. Swiss Franc monetary base, status November 2014
  8. The race to value 0
  9. Le mirage du pétrole de schiste
  10. Confusion totale
  11. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #4, Bullard - Kuroda special edition
  12. Krug oder klug ?
  13. The foam bath - current bubbles
  14. Honey... honey...
  15. Fed - the exit... of what ?
  16. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #3
  17. Margin Debt
  18. A little time travel...
  19. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #2
  20. Le pétrole dans un entonnoir...
  21. La fête aux billets
  22. Clair obscur
  23. The multi-bubble
  24. Precious metals' prices over 101 years
  25. Zip-Ada v.47 with LZMA decompression
  26. Avindex 1.0, snapshot #1
  27. Avant - après
  28. Excel Writer v.13
  29. Tiny but useful gadgets
  30. Debt! Debt!
  31. Sand meets snow
  32. Vintage headphones
  33. Qwrikle trap

2013 24

  1. La magie de la communication de la Fed
  2. Bitcoin follies
  3. Quiz des bulles, novembre 2013
  4. Ben's Rocket to Nowhere, by Peter Schiff
  5. How The Economic Machine Works, by Ray Dalio
  6. September 2013 releases
  7. The show must go on
  8. Chauds, chauds les taux!
  9. Assouplissement monétaire
  10. Wasabee's first steps...
  11. Un épargnant averti en vaut deux!
  12. Et pour quelque 18 milliards de dollars de plus...
  13. Autographes de 19h00 à 19h30
  14. Prix du kilo de certains métaux précieux
  15. Risk appetite seems on a high level...
  16. L'explosion permanente
  17. The Growth Delusion
  18. AZip 1.20 - tree view
  19. Deflation ? What deflation ?
  20. Gold price over one century
  21. Planche à billet.ch
  22. Du blog au livre...
  23. AZip 1.101 - added: smart archive updater
  24. Pessoa - Le Livre de l'intranquillité, n° 454

2012 9

  1. Pessoa - Le Livre de l'intranquillité, n° 314
  2. AZip is born !
  3. 2ème pilier: ne comptez pas trop là-dessus...
  4. Inflation monétaire, la suite !
  5. Subprimes: next round !
  6. Désastre tranquille
  7. The Corporate Bullshit Generator goes live !
  8. Pessoa - Le Livre de l'intranquillité, n° 112
  9. Si j'avais su

2011 12

  1. Pessoa - Le Livre de l'intranquillité, n° 7
  2. Pessoa - Le Livre de l'intranquillité, n° 89
  3. Monetary inflation ad nauseam
  4. Frauenparkplätze
  5. Mathematisches Liebesgedicht
  6. Progression
  7. The Corporate Bullshit Generator
  8. Keyboard rescue
  9. Angel
  10. Dehors, c'est la jungle
  11. Poésie magnétique
  12. Melting, but not mixing

2010 14

  1. New Mathpaqs release
  2. En perdition
  3. Paysage, lac de Zurich
  4. US Dollar is weak...
  5. Affiche (suite)
  6. L'humour des colleurs d'affiches
  7. Galerie d'antiquités
  8. New results for the Transparent Language Popularity Index
  9. Clin d'oeil à Desproges
  10. Noël Lapointe, l'amuseur des enfants
  11. A very, very short story...
  12. Dessin retrouvé sur un vieux disque dur...
  13. New GLOBE_3D release
  14. New Zip-Ada release

2009 2

  1. Nothing terrific im going on finance
  2. New to blogging...