Ben. 🇲🇫 🇺🇦

Snap: kouskoussss

[AlertesInfos @AlertesInfos]

🛒🇫🇷 Voici un ticket de caisse du supermarché LIDL daté de 2004. (via @AkyBeauf)

[Croissant Strike @CroissantStrike]

📊 Nombre de MVPs en carrière :

🇷🇺 donk (13) + 🇧🇦 NiKo (10) + 🇷🇺 m0NESY (7) = 30

🇫🇷 @ZywOo = 34

😭😭😭😭

[Team Vitality CS @TeamVitalityCS]

That's crazy, that's flameZ

[Mac Coy @aAa_MacCoy]

Ça sera transparent dans les stats, mais cet amorti poitrine d'🇫🇷𝐚𝐩𝐄𝐗 change tout le round.

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Ben. 🇲🇫 🇺🇦 @Benjmimis]

@Gicouret @AlertesInfos Mouille toi la nuque bg

[L'ingé son de Twitch là @inge_son2twitch]

J'ai 17 ans.
J'enchaine les peines de coeur et les mauvaises notes au lycée.
Il est 2h du matin, j'ai Party Fun dans les oreilles, je découvre l'EDM.
Et j'arrache des russes avec ma M249 munitions illimités à plat ventre dans le couloir du métro après avoir capturé le point B.

[GOSSIP ROOM @GossipRoomOff]

🚨 Un crucifix est resté debout après le violent incendie de forêt en Gironde.

Un symbole qui a profondément marqué les habitants et les internautes. 🙏

📸: Patrick Bernard

[Cerfia @CerfiaFR]

🇫🇷⚽️💶 FLASH | M6 a perdu plusieurs dizaines de millions € pour la diffusion de la Coupe du Monde 2026 malgré l’explosion des audiences. La stratégie de perte était assumée : "C’est une vitrine exceptionnelle. On perdra de l’argent sur cet événement, c’est clair", avait déclaré le président de la chaîne.

[Sr @dlsasr]

Désolé mais c'est comme ça qu'on fête une cdm hein

[Thomsko @Thosk0]

C’est comme ça qu’on donne un trophée…

[Nicolas Malaboeuf @NMalaboeuf]

Didier Deschamps : « Je redeviendrai un supporter silencieux, je m’interdis de pouvoir parler de l’Équipe de France à partir de ce soir » (@M6)

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Nous reviendrons. 🇫🇷🙏🏽

[𝐆𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 @GwillsBlancos]

They all tried to rattle him, buh he kept his composure to the maximum🥶

[Dan Madesclaire @Vitality_apEX]

Je voulais faire un petit post pour vous les @GoldenHornets
Je suis dévasté de pas pouvoir vous offrir cette victoire, j’espère qu’elle arrivera à @EWC_EN
Merci encore de faire ce que vous faites, vous me donnez toujours la chair de poule et énormément d’émotions.
Nous allons pouvoir fêter une nouvelle victoire ensemble bientôt, je vous le promets 🖤💛

[𝙅𝘽🇫🇷 🇪🇺 @JBOOVII]

Boom💥💥💥 @EmmanuelMacron vient de plier de game.
Simple, basique c'est #FranceFirst‼️

"N’ayons pas honte de ce que nous sommes ! Le Château de Versailles est un instrument diplomatique et de puissance, je l’assume totalement.
Je defends les intérêts de mon pays"

[Dan Madesclaire @Vitality_apEX]

A new player is joining the family 🤍

We are beyond excited to welcome our little baby boy later this year 🐣

We can’t wait to share with him all the love, kindness and adventures that lie ahead ✨

Ambre & Dan

📷 Thanks @FabienTM for helping us capture these special memories

[Cerfia @CerfiaFR]

🇺🇸🇫🇷🏀🙏 FLASH | Le Français Victor Wembanyama a prié avec des religieuses supporters des Spurs de San Antonio avant le premier match des Finales NBA.

[FRENCHRAPUS 🇺🇸 @FrenchRapUS]

🚨 ALERTE GÉNÉRALE !!

VICTOR WEMBANYAMA A ÉTÉ CHOISI POUR ÊTRE SUR LA JAQUETTE DU PROCHAIN NBA 2K27 😱

LA FRANCE INFLUENCE LE MONDE.