Nicolas Ramz

TypeScript at @leboncoin • created @athenajs_ • Rugby • Retro gaming •

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

React-Explorer 3.0.0 has been released for Mac/Linux/Windows: https://t.co/1P3igvFfNI

This version includes performance improvements, numerous bug fixes, and ARM64 builds!

#macOS #Windows #Linux #React #ElectronJS

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@Ronieutd Cantona

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@mdf200 @CoderMik There's even an open source reimplementation of the OS so they don't need the OS either. And there are already several FPGA cores reimplementing/improving (Vampire with Saga,...) various Amiga chips so they could have gone the C64U route but with the Amiga.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@CommodoreBlog Same here. The pricing is a dealbreaker for me. And honestly, they should invest in an AI-powered website builder or redesign their site altogether. The current website looks amateurish and undermines the product’s credibility.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@CommodoreBlog @commodoreofcl That's no Amiga and that's disappointing...
https://t.co/iql3YHGqEX

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@CommodoreBlog @commodoreofcl Apparently they’ve already said it won’t be an Amiga. And given the legal mess around the Amiga IP, I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything Amiga-related anytime soon.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@marcsh @exQUIZitely Yeah. What’s certain is that Commodore took an incredibly long time to deliver a true successor to the original chipset (1985–1992: seven years!). By the time AGA finally arrived, it was simply too little, too late. In computing, seven years is an eternity.

[Andreas Kling @awesomekling]

The key thing to understand about OSS going forward is that problem reports are now more valuable than code submissions.

For security-sensitive projects, public PRs now have net negative value: cheap to produce, expensive to review, and risky to accept.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@exQUIZitely The Amiga introduction for comparison:
https://t.co/LQ3S03vBh0

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@exQUIZitely The Atari ST died pretty quickly right before the Amiga. Westwood Studios were one of the last big studios working on the Amiga (most other studios had already left the Amiga by 1993). I'm not surprised there was no Atari port.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@LinuxJedi Can't wait :)

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@ObsoleteSony Still working :)

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@assomo5 @ININ_Games Ca me rappelle tellement de souvenirs :)

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@exQUIZitely Played it a little but I kept coming back to Gods instead. But it surely had style, just like everything The Bitmap Brothers released!

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Same old lie Apple told during Epic v Apple, which they lost, and were later found in contempt of court on, with a criminal referral. iPhone would be MUCH better if AI assistants could compete in a free market, rather than locking out competitors and paywalling what’s left.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

On n'en parle pas assez: c'est dingue tout ce qu'il a écrit, sans IA, et depuis bien longtemps!

[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.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@CommodoreBlog So many things wrong:

• That’s the A500 “tank mouse,” not the mouse bundled with the A1200
• Turrican is an Amiga 500 (OCS) title
• That's not the original Kickstart screen

Unlike the new C64 Ultimate, this doesn’t evoke much nostalgia...

[Andreas Kling @awesomekling]

The cost of generating plausible code is approaching zero.

So is the cost of spinning up fake identities, submitting plausible PRs, and engaging convincingly in OSS communities.

I don't believe "patches welcome" style development survives this for security-sensitive projects.

[Nicolas Ramz @warpdesign_]

@exQUIZitely The first game I played was Dune II, and it left a huge mark on me: my first RTS, with Sylvester Stallone’s French dub voice in the game. Then Kyrandia, with amazing graphics and music. And finally Lands of Lore, peak hand-drawn 2D art for me, making RPGs truly accessible.