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Polaroid camera - Paris 2013

This week my guest was suggested by Andreas. Welcome Robert aka IrgndSonDepp. He blogs about various things I like: Self-hosting Coding Games and movies reviews and other things Go check his blog. Of course, you can subscribe to his RSS feeds. You can follow him on Mastodon too. Here are the topics I selected for him ⤵️ Guitar Hero Overrated. I’m not saying it’s not a good party game, but depending on what you want to go for, it’s been supplanted by either Rockband (is built around coop and you…

These stairs lead to the place where slaves were sold directly from ships. On each step, there are plaques bearing the names of the African ethnic groups who built and walked upon these stairs: the Congos, the Yoruba, the Igbo, the Wolof, the Fulani and the Bamileke. Slave's stairs - Guadeloupe 2021

I want to continue with another thing I got rid of: FOMO. FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out. Wikipedia says “it’s usually characterized by a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing and can be described as the fear that deciding not to participate is the wrong choice […] In recent years, FOMO has been attributed to a number of negative psychological and behavioral symptoms.” That could be an event, a profitable investment, or any life decision. I had various steps in my…

Today, I want to extend the excellent podcast “Slow is beautiful episode I listened to this morning with Gregory Mignard and Jeremy Janin. My apologies to non-French speakers as it’s a French podcast. The episode was about “things we should never have bought”. The guests shared what they had bought, and how it was an impulsive or irrational purchase. For example, they acquired a Mamiya, a Nikonos for Jeremy, an iWatch, twice for Gregory, and other things like that. I don’t really agree with…

I posted this picture in my photography section already, but it’s a photo I love and I thought it would be nice to share it again. I know I cheated a bit 😅. "Iron Mehdi" - Paris, 2012

This month, R.L Dane started a new blogging theme: gratitude posts. Another blogging challenge! While I have a list of things I’m grateful for, I wasn’t able to start before this month. I’ll try to publish a post, or more, by day during this month. First post: water. I am grateful to be able to enjoy water whenever I want. Most of us forgot we are lucky to be able to take showesr, drink water, make a cup of tea or coffee whenever we want. Of course, that’s not the case everywhere. I think…

A "Kimura, an arm-lock - Marseille, 2013

Gregon - Paris, 2021

Mass - Paris

New-York City

The blog now has a human.json file. The idea is to create a web of trust of websites/blogs written by human beings you trust, and not AI. That reminds me of the GPG key signing parties I went to years ago. With all the slop web crap we see currently, it’s not great to have to do it, but at least it’s easy to set up. For more information, check Robida’s repository.

This week my guest is Jeremy Cherfas. He’s a biologist by degree, but has worked in different fields. Jeremy has a great blog, and also a great podcast about food: Eat this podcast. Highly recommended. I like his little log part where he tracks things he watched. You can follow him on Mastodon. Here are the topics I picked up for him ⤵️ Cycling Underrated, for sure. Bicycles (and tricycles) are such efficient machines it is very hard to understand why more people aren’t using them for simple…

August was busy, really busy! We moved finally! And, I’m exhausted. My two weeks of holidays have been between cleaning, painting, building new shelves for the new apartment, and things like this. Let’s see what I’ve done else. Podcasts Darknet Diaries 178: Ubiquiti - How Nickolas Sharp, an employee, who thought it was a good idea to teach the company a lesson because they didn’t listen to him about their security. Of course, it didn’t end well. 177: National Public Data, quite an interesting…

Today, I switched to Ivpn since Mullvad CEO is funding some fascists. It’s sad to see that we, human beings, are so dumb and evil. As a child, I used to watch “The Cosby Show”, and I used to enjoy it. But, a couple of years ago, we learnt that Bill Cosby wasn’t great as he was in the show. The same goes with Keyser Söze interpreted by Kevin Spacey, who was also involved in stories that make me sick. Younger, everyone was listening to R. Kelly, or Puff Daddy. Today, I removed them from my songs…

This week my guest is Harry from Light, Logged. Harry enjoys photography, but not only, and you should go check his blog. You can subscribe to his RSS feed, and follow him on Mastodon. Here are the topics I picked up for him ⤵️ iWatch (I still wish they’d called it that) Overrated. What do I use my Apple Watch for? Checking the time? Sure. Fitness tracking? Yep. Checking notifications? Yes. Controlling music playback and volume? Sure. Changing the watch band every few days? Absolutely! Using…

This week my guest is Eric Bower. Eric lives in a terminal. He also maintains pico.sh and zmx. His blog is bower.sh, go check it and subscribe to his RSS feed. Eric has also a YouTube channel, and a GitHub page with his projects. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ POSIX Both. Overrated because the specification has a lot of unspecified behavior that makes relying on it quite tumultuous. Even simple tools like echo will behave differently depending on the implementation. Also, most scripts end up…

A small update about my Blaugust challenge. August has been a really busy month so far. We moved to a new place. Every house move involves stress. This was particularly the case for Mrs Hyde. At some point, her stress became contagious and I found myself getting annoyed by little things that usually don’t bother me. Basically, that’s how I’ve spent the last two weeks. I’ve only written ten posts in August, eleven including this one, and we have twelve days left. I have many drafts to write or…

This week my guest is James Sweeting. He’s a lecturer/researcher in Game Studies with a focus on nostalgia, hauntology, and media form. He manages a blog and also Relative Nostalgia. You can follow him on Mastodon, Bluesky or subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Bluesky Given how Threads is apparently used daily by millions of users and somehow X still has a strong core userbase I would say that Bluesky is still underrated. Sure, in practice it’s basically a copy of what…

Facts, I already wrote what I like and what I hate. Here’s some other facts. One of my friend had an audition to be in Taken, but they were looking for someone who speaks Serbian. He gave my number, and I got two screenplays for two characters. But, I never went there. My ex heard a message left on my voicemail, and being crazy jealous, said “what’s that b**ch wants from you?” Arguments, and arguments, and I’ve never even replied to the woman. Maybe, I could have been the new Morgan Freeman who…

This week my guest is ReadBeanIceCream. There are different hashtags that I have pinned on Mastodon like #blogging #blogs or #100DaysToOffload to follow people in the community. That’s how I stumbled upon RBIC’s profile. He writes about pandoc, RSS, plain-text and other related things. You can follow him on the Fediverse or subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Pandoc Underrated. Underhyped. Under-everything Pandoc bills itself as the Swiss Army knife of documentation…

Mullvad has been my VPN provider for at least five years. I wrote about it a couple of years ago, and I was happy with their services. No email, no name, payments in cash or crypto. Finally, a privacy service that was great. Everything was great until it wasn’t anymore. I read a couple of articles, and especially Mark’s post about the co-founder, Daniel Berntsson who supports a fascist party in Sweden. Once again, it’s clear that human beings are evil. I already knew that. Open any history book…

This post is a reply to: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/are-we-becoming-too-paranoid-about-ai-slop/ This morning I’ve read Andreas’ post, and then Joel’s and Noisy Deadlines’ too. Today, you can’t avoid AI. It’s fucking everywhere. At work, I see it in our mails, in Zoom, in Slack since I update the app this week, and everybody talks about it. The good thing is that last week, during a company meeting, we had some senior engineers who admitted you can’t trust LLMs for everything, and you…

This post is a reply to: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/are-we-becoming-too-paranoid-about-ai-slop/ This morning I’ve read Andreas’ post, and then Joel’s and Noisy Deadlines’ too. Today, you can’t avoid AI. It’s fucking everywhere. At work, I see it in our mails, in Zoom, in Slack since I update the app this week, and everybody talks about it. The good thing is that last week, during a company meeting, we had some senior engineers who admitted you can’t trust LLMs for everything, and you…

I have been always a big fan of keyboards, and keybindings. The keyboard will always be faster, no matter how good you are with your mouse. My friend’s example of using the mouse to create a dozen of directories always comes to mind. He right-clicked, created a directory, named it, and repeated the action a dozen times. He could have just done this: % mkdir dir-{1..12} The same goes for all the apps you use. Most of them have shortcuts. If you need to select a menu and then a tool with the…

Almost two years ago, I wrote about saving tabs in a text-file. Yesterday, Flamed tooted about open tabs that he has read, bookmarked, and closed. I have an issue with open tabs. Often, my browser has over a thousand of tabs opened that “I’ll read later”. The original method was to use bookmarks. The new one reads directly from sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4. For work, I have an Macbook, so I added also support for Linux and OSX. If you have multiple Mozilla profiles, it will get the…

This week my guest is Alex Hyett. He’s a software engineer from the UK that makes many videos, write blog posts, and publish notes. He has also made some courses for developers. Finally, you can follow him on the Fediverse or subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Taking notes Underrated. Throughout my career as a software developer I have always had a notebook in front of me. I have tried a few times to keep digital notes but I find it adds too much friction to the process…

Where did July go?! I feel like July never happened, probably because I’ve been busy packing up for my move. I’ve lived in the same house for five years, and I’m moving to a lovely apartment without a garage. My boxing gym was in there. We’ve collected many things over that period, and now I’ve found myself selling many things: my boxing bag, the two tons clamp used to fix it, and other things. As you maybe remember, I had a Canon Pixma 10 in a corner of the garage, and I gave it to a friend of…

August is there, and with this new month comes a new blogging challenge: Blaugust, the festival of blogging. Previously, I’ve seen this challenge, but I never participated because August is always tricky. End of children school, usually holidays, and a period of the year where I take some time off. But, this year, I decided to participate. Originally, the challenge was to post every day for 31 days, but it changed, and here’s how they mention it on their website: Newbie Blogger Award – You did…

This week my guest is a writer from Sydney: Richard Griffiths also known as Writing Slowly. I discovered his Fediverse account maybe three years ago on a thread about Zettelkasten if I recall correctly. He wrote also a book called Shu Ha Ri The Japanese Way of Learning, for Artists and Fighters. Go check his blog and subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Zettelkasten Overrated. Don’t get me wrong. I work with my own Zettelkasten daily and it’s transformed how I write. Without…