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  • Paying Attention

    February 19, 2025 8:40am
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    Longer posts

    Personal

    Newsletter

    I’m likely spending an excessive amount of time reading the news through various channels and sources. However, given the numerous events unfolding right now that will significantly shape our lives over the next few decades, I believe it’s crucial to pay close attention to them. Regardless of the method, one day, these events will undoubtedly have a clear and immediate impact on me and my loved ones. Continue reading →

  • February 18, 2025 7:53pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    What? HP is buying Humane remains? HP? The leader in generative AI looking for a modern, lightweight and nifty dedicated AI device to hum along their AI backend services? Silicon Valley is hard to decipher at times.

  • Mostly Unexcited

    February 18, 2025 5:49pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    Newsletter

    Apple is set to unveil a strategically priced new iPhone tomorrow, alongside anticipated developments in its cellular modem technology. Should I be excited? Continue reading →

  • February 18, 2025 9:52am
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    Apps & Services

    Posting to Pixelfed from Micro.blog is cool on paper but can be very frustrating to see that the cross-post action didn’t pan out… no clue as to why, unless doing some digging in the account logs… no easy way to “try again” either. Reconsidering my approach. Again.

  • February 18, 2025 8:43am
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    Newsletter

    Witnessing, albeit from a distance, the daily dismantling of the United States is quite a spectacle. I never imagined I would witness this.

  • February 18, 2025 7:58am
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    Photography

    In the past seven days, two snow storms, back to back, dropped a total of 74 cm of snow in Montreal, Canada. That’s a lot. The second storm hit harder than the first. During a snow storm, temperatures often inches close to zero Celsius with weak winds. This time, it was -10 degree Celsius and windy, creating blizzard conditions. I love these, but the aftermath is not fun to cope with: I won’t be able to take the car for the next few days, sidewalks are mostly not usable. I’ll remember that one for a long time.

  • Musing About Journaling Goals

    February 17, 2025 5:08pm
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    Blogging

    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Personal

    Newsletter

    Reflects on my journaling habits at work and personally, questioning the purpose of writing when I seldom revisit the content. Continue reading →

  • February 17, 2025 2:57pm
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I don’t care if Reddit offers a paywall option for Subreddits. Unless I’m missing something: I could create and built a community over there and at some point ask for a paid subscription, right? What is the difference then compared with Substack or Ghost?

  • February 17, 2025 8:38am
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    Photography

    Yesterday we had our second snow storm in less than five days. It was a big one, probably the biggest one in a decade. It was the best time to go out for a walk and snap as many pictures as possible. Here’s one.

  • How Do You Feel About That?

    February 17, 2025 8:18am
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    Photography

    Longer posts

    UkraineWar

    Newsletter

    The author urges Americans to recognize the ongoing suffering in Ukraine and criticizes Trump for wanting to engage with adversaries, drawing parallels to the 9/11 attacks. Continue reading →

  • February 16, 2025 4:14pm
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    Photography

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I wrote this about Apple’s Aperture more than five years ago. Now we have something to talk about.

  • February 16, 2025 9:06am
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    Blogging

    Newsletter

    After skipping a week, here is the latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. This edition is the one shared from Craft as a published document. The Ghost web-hosted version is coming later today.

  • February 15, 2025 6:41pm
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    UkraineWar

    Newsletter

    Putin and Trump negotiating the end of the war (or something that looks like it) without Ukraine is like a couple who is about to divorce, but the husband is negotiating with a not-so-random guy, leaving his wife aside, how to split the couple’s assets. This is beyond ridiculous and utterly outrageous.

  • February 15, 2025 4:36pm
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    Misc

    I updated the blog theme plugin to add support for Micro.blog summaries. In order to work, I had to disable showing the full post on the main page, which triggers the display of the summary with a “Continue reading” link. Is it a better reading experience for my readers? You tell me, please. I’m not sure.

  • February 15, 2025 3:24pm
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I can’t count the number of times I wish I had maintained an archive of all my screenshots over the years, even going back to the earliest days when we could take screenshots of screens. 🤦🏻‍♂️😔

  • February 15, 2025 3:13pm
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    Photography

    Blogging

    Newsletter

    I’m not too fond of text quotes shared as beautiful pictures (coming from Readwise, for example), especially if they don’t come with ALT text description. They look pretty, though. Here’s an example. I don’t like them because they hinder content indexing in some ways.

  • Netflix vs Apple: Who's the Dumbest?

    February 15, 2025 2:37pm
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    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    Netflix apologized for a temporary availability on Apple TV, while Apple is expanding its app to more devices, reflecting a complicated relationship between the two companies. Continue reading →

  • Testing Summaries - Part Deux

    February 14, 2025 10:48pm
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    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    This is the second part of my Micro.blog summaries testing. Continue reading →

  • Testing Summaries

    February 14, 2025 10:32pm
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    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    The new blog post summary feature on Micro.blog is currently only accessible during post editing and is still under development. Continue reading →

  • February 14, 2025 12:20pm
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    Misc

    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    As reported by Engadget and many others:

    According to researchers, anyone who knows where to look can spray digital graffiti on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website. Two web development experts said the site doesn’t seem to be hosted on government servers and that the database it pulls from can be modified by those who locate it. At the time of writing, a message reading “these ‘experts’ left their database open - roro” is still visible on the DOGE site.

    Thanks, I feel much more confident now.

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