Where our name comes from
1202 isn't just a nerdy number — it's a story about software done right.
The alarm that didn't stop
the moon landing
During Apollo 11's lunar module descent, a switch left in the wrong position forced the onboard computer to process the rendezvous radar's data on top of the landing radar's, overloading it. An alarm went off: code 1202.
The guidance software, designed by software engineer Margaret Hamilton and her team at MIT, included error-handling and recovery routines added at Hamilton's insistence despite NASA's initial skepticism. Code 1202 was a first: that exact alarm had never triggered in simulation. But it was precisely that mechanism that proved itself that day — it dropped the lower-priority tasks and kept the calculations essential to the landing running. On the ground, engineer Jack Garman had anticipated this scenario months earlier — he knew the 1202 alarm didn't put the mission at risk. His confirmation, relayed to the crew, let the descent continue through to touchdown.
Studio 1202 carries this name in tribute to that technical feat and to the philosophy behind it: good software isn't software that never crashes — it's software built to respond well when the unexpected happens.
Where code gets written
Our logo is a text cursor: the small blinking rectangle in a terminal, right where the next line of code is about to appear. Every project starts there, with a cursor and a blank page.
Inside it, two chevrons and a slash echo the </> tags of programming. Together they form an S, as in Studio: the code and the letter become one.
The green is that of the old green-phosphor terminals, when text was written in light on a black screen.
Our team
Meet the artists, designers, and programmers behind Studio 1202.
Éric Bernatchez
Founder, Chief NerdBachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science and Software Engineering (1993, UQAH). Specialist in engineering, design and data architecture, GUI interfaces and UX experience, functional testing.
Fréjus Adje
VP of DevelopmentB.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science (2016), full-stack developer for over 10 years. Builds complete web and mobile applications, from idea to launch, with experience in project management and team leadership.
Jose
Full Stack DeveloperVersatile Full Stack developer specializing in web and mobile applications (.NET, Angular, Laravel), three-tier architecture, and microservices. Skilled in application security, Git workflows, and Cloud deployment on Azure.
Bryann
Backend & AI DeveloperB.Sc. in Computer Science (Epitech, 2026), specializing in backend development and applied artificial intelligence. Builds multi-tenant architectures and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in Python, with a recent foray into the Laravel ecosystem.