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  • Long Day Spent Visiting The Big Medina of Fez

    Date: June 21, 2023 at 5:54:55 PM GMT+1 Weather: 29°C Mostly Clear Location: Derb Salaj, Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco What a strange, busy, surprising place. Strangely, I didn’t take as many pictures as I could. I guess I was too busy looking around me, up, down, everywhere. 🤯 Visiting this Medina was … read more

  • Leaving Rabat

    Date: June 18, 2023 at 7:28:55 AM GMT+1 Weather: 22°C Mostly Cloudy Location: Rue Jamaa Mourino, Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco Great city. Many photo opportunities. Like this wall and door. Unprocessed image. read more

  • I’m really looking forward for this trip...

    Date: June 16, 2023 at 8:05:30 PM EDT Weather: 20°C Rain Location: Aéroport International de Montréal-Trudeau, Dorval, QC, Canada From a photography experience perspective… My backpack 🎒 is so heavy with this camera and “only” two lenses. My hope is to use my big camera as much as my iPhone, … read more

  • Are We Ready for This Dystopian World?

    Warning: it’s not about the Apple Vision Pro headset, which many people think will bring a touch of a dystopian future to our life. Something else more serious will. I read this week somewhere that, to get climate back into the normality zone🌪️ to ensure the sustainability of the human race … read more

  • Building a CRM in ... Notion? Really?

    💡I’m trying to build my own CRM with Notion for my daytime job. After a few hours today building the data model using Notion tables and relations, I concluded that I underestimated Notion for such use case. It’s impressive and very flexible. It has a lot of potential. I’m pretty … read more

  • On 15-inch MacBook Air: Is It Too Big?

    When the 15-inch MacBook Air 💻 was officially announced, I was excited and knew it would replace my M1 MacBook Air. Since then, I read many reviews and watched many unboxing videos. People seem to enjoy the new bigger MBA, and all is good, right? But, is it? Nobody talks about the device’s … read more

  • In Photography, the iPhone Can Be a Killer

    My nephew, a semi-pro photographer, recently sold 90% of his photography gear (Canon). He only kept one body and one 50mm lens. 😱 He upgraded his phone to the iPhone 14 Pro. 😏He couldn’t be happier, he told me. Even with the iPhone, he essentially kept his photo-processing workflow as-is … read more

  • I’m Testing Day One for My Travel Journal Experiment

    Date: June 9, 2023 at 5:25:24 PM EDT Weather: 18°C Mostly Cloudy Location: Montréal, QC, Canada I’ll be going to Morocco a week from now. I plan to use Day One to document my trip there. It will be the first time since I’m a Day One user. I don’t know how I could not think of this before. I’ve been … read more

  • Watch Out Reddit

    🤨 Because of recent Reddit behaviors towards their API consumption models, seeing Apollo go, just like that, plus similarities of behavior with Twitter, I may drop my cross posting to Reddit as a first step of protests. Then, stop manual posting (in /r/craftdocs for example). Ultimately, closing my … read more

  • A Few Last-Minute Questions for WWDC2023

    It’s Apple keynote day, and it is exciting but also stressful! Here are last-minute questions. Will the headset pricing be announced today? Will the headset be like the Apple Watch and be running apps, or will it be more like CarPlay, with some additional viewport from the iPhone? Or a combination? … read more

  • Reflecting on My Photo Processing Strategy

    For my next trip, I will bring my Nikon D750 and my iPhone 13 Pro (of course!), and my 2018 11-inch iPad Pro. How am I going to process my images? Will I continue using Lightroom for images from my Nikon? I usually use the iPad to import my photos into the Lightroom catalogue. What about pictures on … read more

  • 365 Days Later

    A year ago, I shared my first YouTube video on my YouTube channel. My initial goal was to share videos about using Craft, but later came videos about using Micro.blog. Here are some notable facts: 52 videos about Craft were produced; 5 videos about Micro.blog were produced; All videos totalling more … read more

  • On Reddit API Access Pricing

    So, apparently, just like Twitter, Reddit is entering into a “kill-third-party-apps” by charging an enormous amount of money to use their APIs. It looks like it. Apollo isn’t happy, and for good reasons. Unless there was a calculation error from the makers of Apollo, it just makes … read more

  • Where I’ve Been

    To follow the trend started with Manton from Micro.blog, here’s my list of countries I visited. 🇺🇸 United States 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇩🇴 Republic Dominica 🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇺🇾 Uruguay 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇳🇱 Netherland 🇬🇧 England 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇦🇪 UAE 🇮🇹 … read more

  • My Morning So Far

    What an intense morning. I learned about the existence of iTelescope, thanks to this blog post from Christopher Curtis, a service where you can rent astronomical observation time from the comfort of your home. I read about the Eternal Recurrence, thanks to a post from Gr36. I would be ok with the … read more

  • On AI & Content Creators — So many Questions — So Few Answers

    Should I care if my content is used to train AI models? How is it different than someone who uses part of my content in a citation to write a linkpost, for example? Is it ok for a portion of my content to be used elsewhere as opposed to the full content? Should I be able to opt out of any AI … read more

  • On Slowing Down AI To Stay in Control

    I had a discussion about AI yesterday with my wife. She came back from a two-day conference in Toronto. One of the sessions was about the place of AI in society and how it is time to engage in promoting and organizing some AI regulations. The more I read and learn about AI capabilities as exposed in … read more

  • Targeting the First Thousand YouTube Subscribers

    My goal when I started doing YouTube videos about Craft (and now Micro.blog) was to reach a thousand subscribers during the first year. At the current rate, I won’t make it. Am I sad about this? No. Is it nagging me? Yes. Why? I think there are a lot of Craft users out there, and I think they … read more

  • From Weekly to Monthly Digest

    Following the announcement of the tweaked Micro.blog newsletter functionality, I’m switching to a monthly digest instead with a specific category as the sole source for its content. Three reasons for this change: first, the digest will become a more intentional set of creative gestures instead … read more

  • Thoughts On FCP for iPad vs Screenflow

    I’m more inclined and attracted by the idea of testing (and actually using) FCP on iPad than the Mac version. Without being an iMovie on steroids (something that I don’t want), I wish FCP for iPad to be a simpler (but not simplistic) version of FCP on the Mac. The problem: all my videos … read more