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Recently, I took a training course to learn about electricity. On paper, at the end of the training, the student is expected to be able to set up a single-phase home electrical installation, and to bring an existing electrical installation up to standard. Now that the training is over, I can confirm this is indeed the case! A bit of context My knowledge of electricity was very basic. I didn’t have…
I know the literal middle of a year is at the moment when June ends and July begins (a six-month mark over the twelve months within a year). But I’ve always been feeling like the middle of the year is one month later: precisely at the end of July and the beginning of August. Don’t ask me why, though, it’s how I feel it and I don’t really know why. All that to say that we've just crossed what I…
For the first time in more than 20 years, euro banknotes are about to be redesigned, and several proposals were submitted by designers across Europe. In short, two themes and several motifs were given to the designers to work with. The selected themes were “European culture” and “Rivers and birds”. Among the more than 1,200 submissions, a shortlist of ten designs was taken on by the European…
At last, I’m writing something in reaction to an article I had put aside for a long time now. It’s called “ IMG_0416 ” and was published in November 2024. If I remember correctly, I stumbled on it via Hacker News . In his article, Ben writes about a now long defunct feature of the earliest versions of iOS, called “Send to YouTube”, which allowed iPhone users to upload videos to YouTube, likely…
Back in February, I discovered Pure Blog , and it has stayed in a corner of my head since then. A few days ago, I installed it locally and gave it a try . Long story short: I spent most of my free time during the last ten days or so migrating my content, porting my custom WordPress plugins and tweaking my Pure Blog setup. This morning, I finally pulled the trigger, five months after that idea…
Boy, that article about AI-generated images I wrote yesterday , the several blog posts, comments and opinions I have read here and there about that controversial topic… it sticks in my mind. Since yesterday, it's like I'm having a passionate debate about it with myself. I'm weighing the pros and cons, and upon reflection, I'm now considering using my own cover images instead of the ones I used to…
Update: I refined my point of view. Read more: “ On AI-generated images: a reflection with myself ”. I came across this article by Panayotis, for whom “ AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more ”. It’s not the first article on that topic I have read 3 , and I feel particularly targeted, since I use AI-generated cover images for most of my articles, this one included. So, here’s my view…
A few days ago, I discovered this piece of news, and it immediately caught my attention. On June 16th, Commodore officially announced a new product: Commodore Announces Callback 8020, the Mobile Phone That Helps You Disconnect They are making a phone. Not a smartphone, but a good old flip phone, a feature phone, or a dumbphone as we know them nowadays (even if this one doesn’t seem that dumb).…
→ Explore the full “Night City Wanderer” series: Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 My last post from the “Night City Wanderer” series dates back to February 19th, almost five months ago. For the record, a few days later, I finished the game (the main quest and a lot of the side ones), and during that last session of the game, I took several pictures of my wanderings, like I was…
“Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you.”, writes Martin . Here’s my pick, by release year: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987) Megadeth – Rust in Peace (1990) Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) AC/DC – Live: 2 CD Collector’s Edition (1992) The Offspring – Smash (1994) It’s basically a shortlist of the 12 albums that defined my teenage years , an article in which I wrote a…