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  • February 12, 2025 6:34pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    First, Tim gives his money to this orange clown and dictator and assist the presidential circus inauguration and now Apple resumes advertising on X? This is not the Apple that I want. 😡

  • February 12, 2025 8:45am
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    Testing Micro Social! Great start! @gregmorris !

  • It's Time to Vote With My Money

    February 11, 2025 7:40am
    Misc Longer posts Newsletter
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    DHH at 37 Signals praising Musk for his business (and now) government spending management is yet another red flag and a no-go for me. I won’t link to this post. I’m going to vote with my money and cancel my HEY Mail subscription this fall when my subscription is expiring. If Musk buys ChatGPT, I’ll again vote with my money and cancel my ChatGPT subscription in due time. As Trump is imposing 25% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, I’ll vote with my money and cancel my yearly business trip to the US this fall. Some of these changes are a pain to implement but resisting is never an easy thing.

  • February 10, 2025 8:03pm
    Photography Misc
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    A rather big one is coming at us this Thursday, the first big snow storm of the season. Mostly heavy snow, rather weak winds. North shore of Montreal to get the most snow. Working from home that day for sure.

  • February 10, 2025 8:47am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    There is something that I wish was different with blogs hosted on WordPress: commenting and liking. I never comment on those blogs because I don’t like Gravatar or I don’t want to create a WordPress.com account just to write a comment. Again this morning, I clicked on “Like” on a blog post and for some reason, my email prefix was displayed, and I don’t remember having a Gravatar account still active. In fact, it didn’t have one, after some checks. I prefer to log in using something like my Mastodon-friendly identity or Sign in with Apple. I want the blog to give me more choices than their own authentication service (and I don’t want to use my Google account, nor Facebook login). In fact, I want an identity provider that doesn’t build a social graph or bases his business model on where I’m headed on the web.

    Am I alone with this thinking?

  • February 9, 2025 2:43pm
    Personal Work
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    It’s the type of day where I would have liked to work in a coffee shop, but I can’t because I’m working for my job doing some extra time. We’re not allowed to work client’s documents in public spaces.

  • February 9, 2025 11:13am
    Photography
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    I love the complexities and sometimes anarchic flavours of cities.

  • February 9, 2025 9:09am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    Just finished some subscriptions cleaning on YouTube. I was following way too many channels, many of which are dead. I came to do this this morning because I was looking for low-volume channels to add to Reeder. Low volume streams are the best to add to an app like Reeder. The sum of low volume content channels eventually lead to high-volume content to look at.

  • February 8, 2025 1:35pm
    Photography
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    Thinking about next summer season while waiting a few snowstorms in the next ten days. Auto-generated description: A dramatic sunset with vivid red and orange clouds looms over a city street, lined with cars and illuminated by streetlights.

  • And the Winner Is...

    February 8, 2025 10:24am
    Photography Longer posts Apps & Services Newsletter
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    Three apps, three different designs. On the left, Tapestry, in the middle Reeder (new), on the right Reeder (old). For me, the winner is the new Reeder which offers a much cleaner design. I’ll keep an eye on Tapestry, but I don’t see how its design could change much. Typestry, Reeder (new), Reeder (old)

  • February 7, 2025 9:32pm
    Photography Newsletter
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    I detest the feeling of discovering that I’ve shared a photo more than once. I yearn for a foolproof method to distinguish between the photos that have been posted and those that haven’t. I’m not always using the same method or same device for posting photos online.

  • February 7, 2025 9:04am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    With a secret request by the UK government for a backdoor in iCloud, can you imagine if it was to be granted and then later down the line something like what’s happening in the US is taking over the government and institutions happen? It is hard to comprehend what is happening every day these days.

  • February 6, 2025 1:13pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I’ve been experiencing crashes in the Mac App Store and iOS App Store in recent times like never before. Right after an app update finishes, the store quit unexpectedly or just by looking at the list of available updates. Surprising.

  • Non-Optimized for the iPad

    February 4, 2025 8:50pm
    Apple & Tech Longer posts Newsletter
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    Apple told the developers that building an iPad was a matter of clicking a checkbox (more or less). Now, why is Apple Sports, Apple Journal and more recently, Apple Invites are not optimized for the iPad? 🤨🤷🏻‍♂️

  • February 4, 2025 2:42pm
    Apple & Tech Apps & Services Newsletter
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    Quite positive experience with Apple Invites so far. I feel they move the needle and bring a much more enjoyable experience compared to other similar offerings. Nice user interface visual language. It feels new and very Apple. I like it. Is it something that preclude what is coming up with iOS 19?

  • February 4, 2025 12:06pm
    Newsletter
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    Using ChatGPT to analyze anonymized resumes1 and match them with a set of requirements is quite an impressive experience. I’m mind blown.


    1. It’s mandatory for privacy protection. ↩︎

  • February 3, 2025 8:55pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    Apparently, the EU get porn apps, but we get Apple Intelligence. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • February 3, 2025 8:01pm
    Misc
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    Now the orange clown put tariffs on hold for 30 days… what an erratic guy… I know he is doing that on purpose because this is the only way he runs his businesses…

  • February 2, 2025 11:11am
    Misc Newsletter
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    For once, I’m really proud of him, of us. This is Canada’s Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Justin Trudeau, announcing retaliatory actions against the White House absurd and unjustified tariffs. The first four minutes entirely reflect who we are. So well said and quite moving, actually. 🇨🇦 💪🏻

  • Finally!

    February 2, 2025 10:46am
    Longer posts Apps & Services
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    I’m finally enjoying this moment where I can show the title field while writing a blog post on Micro.blog.

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