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  • January 8, 2025 3:18pm
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    After finding an old document in Notion where my text highlights from Matter were saved, I was curious about Matter, the reader-later service that I once used a while back before trying Omnivore. Their website still refers to “Twitter”, not “X”, their last post on their X account dates back to 2023. I cannot find a Mastodon account. KI can’t find a changelog either. Is this thing still alive?

  • January 7, 2025 4:22pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Dear David (aka DHH), I fully disagree with you, and your blog post, again.

  • January 7, 2025 2:39pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    How long before we see something like this on LinkedIn “Prompt Engineer with 15 years of experience”?

  • Who's Right? Apple Intelligence or Grammarly

    January 7, 2025 8:19am
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    Photography

    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

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    While working on the next edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter, I wanted to proofread and rewrite some text portions. I first started with Apple Intelligence Writing Tools then pasted the results into Craft. Grammarly instantly took the ball and verified the pasted text, highlighting everything wrong that needed some attention. Is Apple Writing Tools sloppy or Grammarly too picky? Writing in English is not an easy thing for me to do. Continue reading →

  • January 6, 2025 4:16pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    The LG UltraFine 6K: this is such a nice-looking monitor. Perfect for a M4 Mac mini. Look at me, no bezels! 🤩

  • January 6, 2025 10:06am
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    Personal

    Newsletter

    Returning to work this morning is really hard and cumbersome after two weeks of intense personal life. I really disconnected from work. So, I mostly forgot about my passwords, my pending items when I left back in late December. Is this what we call “work & life balance”?

  • January 6, 2025 9:57am
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    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Newsletter

    Work

    Microsoft is putting the “Copilot” tag everywhere… even on Microsoft 365 which will become Microsoft 365 Copilot. It’s fascinating to see a company like to playing with the branding of its services.

  • January 6, 2025 8:40am
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Tips on Using LLMs (AI) Effectively for Text

    the longer and more detailed you prompt, the higher quality the output will be (that was from Claude 3.5 Sonnet). But you start to run into diminishing returns, because if you are spending so much time writing a detailed prompt, couldn’t you write the email yourself? I think so.

    We should give a name to this inflection point.

  • January 5, 2025 10:37pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Dear Mr. Siegler, I don’t buy it either. This is beyond ridiculous. One question: who is stupid here, people looking to build relationships with AI bots or advertisers willing to pay for ads placement in this crappy digital world? 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • On Posting Images to Pixelfed from Micro.blog

    January 5, 2025 10:39am
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    Photography

    My brief testing of posting images to Pixelfed from Micro.blog is positive (image1, image2). My blog visual theme (Tiny Cards) supports image posts without being too fancy. The only thing is the lack of image collection selection when posting from Micro.blog. This has to be done after posting. Might come later, if we call @manton attention! Posting from Micro.blog app is similar to Pixelfed app. The nice thing is that Micro. Continue reading →

  • January 5, 2025 9:22am
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    Photography

    Two years ago in Buenos Aires. #travel #Argentina

    Woman in a window is tending her hand. She seems to say « come in »!
  • January 5, 2025 8:56am
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    Photography

    A somewhat old photo of me in front of a coffee shop somewhere in Brazil. I’m also testing cross-posting to Pixelfed.

  • I’m Getting Old Apparently

    January 4, 2025 6:12pm
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Personal

    Newsletter

    I old enough to be one of those who witnessed the birth of MTV and music videos… but I rarely watch those these days… but today, I decided to spend some time watching what’s « hot ». A few observations are in order: video duration is short (less than 3 min), hyper-short scenes abuse (less than two seconds in duration), 4:3 screen ratio is strange (is this a thing now?)… I barely can stand this shit now. Continue reading →

  • January 4, 2025 3:22pm
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    Personal

    Newsletter

    The cool thing about our new (and temporary) apartment is that, both my wife and me, have the feeling of being traveling somewhere in the world1. We stay right beside a beautiful park with a lot of mature trees. I already see myself going out to do some photography. Too bad it’s winter time, though. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    We often travel to places, rent an Airbnb for a week, so that we can feel being part of a small community. It’s really a nice feeling making the whole thing more bearable.


    1. We are 1km from our house! ↩︎

  • Where The Social Web Fails

    January 4, 2025 2:12pm
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    Dislike buttons on YouTube, or elsewhere for that matter, should come with a mandatory “here’s why I don’t like this” explanation text field. In this specific case, 2 people out of 18 didn’t like my video. Why? How can I improve myself if you don’t tell me what’s wrong? This is the part of social web that I feel doesn’t work. Continue reading →

  • January 4, 2025 1:58pm
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    Photography

    Personal

    Newsletter

    My new home office for the next three months. Not bad at all. My temporary home office while my house is being renovated.

  • January 4, 2025 1:02pm
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    Personal

    Newsletter

    And we’re finally settled in our temporary apartment. Now, it’s time to explore the surroundings, including marking coffee shops and restaurants that I plan to try over the course of the next three months. I started using Apple Maps Guides for this. Not super intuitive but it does the job. I shared the guide with my wife.

  • January 4, 2025 9:08am
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    This article from 9to5Mac is a reminder that Apple Intelligence is not free.

    as more Apple Intelligence features continue arriving, on-device storage is going to become more in-demand than ever before.

    That’s why I went with the 512GB storage tier for my iPhone 15 Pro Max and 11-inch iPad Pro last year. Consider doing the same for your next upgrade.

  • January 3, 2025 1:14pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    My cellular service provider offers me, via their iPhone app, to convert from a physical SIM to an eSIM. Traveling abroad a few times a year and as a big fan of Airalo, I wonder if I should go all in with eSIM… thoughts?

  • January 3, 2025 9:17am
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    Personal

    Newsletter

    Thought and sentiment of the moment: my sheer physical exhaustion makes my mental exhaustion more bearable.

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