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I am very fortunate that one jflesch on GitHub decided one day to create Paperwork! This excellent program evolved very quickly and is still improving. I manage all my official documents, invoices, and such, in Paperwork. Scan by scan, PDF import by PDF import, I am slowly approaching the 2000 documents, or 5000 pages. This program has proved invaluable in the past year alone, both for speeding up the processing of new documents, and for looking for old documents.

Yet I miss one feature: the possibility to search the database of documents (which is on my home server) from any computer or mobile device, without having to launch Paperwork, which is only installed on the main family PC.

Besides, as I often connect to my server from distant places using OpenSSH, the possibility to do command-line searches would be a big improvement over my current use of find, grep, etc. Or I should rather say, my former use of find, grep, etc. Because…

Dans un précédent article, je parlais du Fairphone. J’en ai un. Et c’est ainsi que j’ai découvert l’univers d’Android, moi qui n’avais connu jusqu’alors que les systèmes d’exploitation classiques (pour ordinateurs personnels).

Utilisateur de GNU/Linux, j’ai la mauvaise habitude d’être maître de mon environnement informatique, de pouvoir adapter son fonctionnement à mes besoins, et de disposer d’un catalogue de logiciels libres fiables, respectant tous ma vie privée et n’ayant pas de publicités à m’infliger. Il va sans dire que je suis devenu quelque peu exigeant :-p

Si Android a la réputation d’être un environnement généralement très fermé, le Fairphone n’est heureusement pas dans ce cas. Par ailleurs, j’ai réussi à trouver de quoi me satisfaire, grâce à F-Droid…

This article has been translated to English.

As already stated in a previous post, there are a couple of reasons why you may want to compress the data you receive from the Internet. The main reason is the cost associated with mobile data transfers.

Unfortunately, the previous post only dealt with HTTP, whereas more and more web sites force HTTPS on us, starting with Google. This post exposes another solution, that is suitable for both protocols.