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Hi ! I'm Johan Bleuzen, a front-end developer from France…

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macOS's bloated Applications folder

Since 2011, Apple release its annual macOS upgrade and with every new release comes the new applications included in macOS (I didn’t check that every release comes with new apps but you get the picture). Last week, I installed the beta of macOS Golden Gate and discovered that my Application folder was even more filled with applications. Last year I didn’t upgrade to macOS Tahoe, because… Liquid…

How an old macOS setting broke my Dark Mode experience

In the past few weeks, I worked on some Dark Mode related stuff and I stumbled upon an issue that was driving me nuts… On my Mac, all browsers weren’t respecting my OS settings of appearance, my code was working on some VMs but not locally. No matter what I tried in the OS settings or my browsers, trying to get the value of prefers-color-scheme was always returning “light” even when setting the…

Filtering specific requests in browsers network devtools

I’m trying to use more and more Firefox based browsers, I’m using Floorp at the moment and sometimes I hit some issues that need some research to fix. At work I still mainly use Chrome and I when I try to use Floorp there is something I miss from Chrome Network devtools. It’s the ability to filter requests by name, for example when I work on some site and I don’t want to see livereload requests…

Learning to read again

I know how to read except that I don’t read anymore… I can read stuff in my daily life, like press news, blog posts or technical documentations but I can’t read a book. It can sound weird but I’ve not been able to read a complete book for a maybe more than ten years now and everytime I tried in the past, I gave up pretty quickly. What’s the problem ? I was an avid reader when I was younger, I…

Completely hide Shorts from Youtube and more…

I try to not spend too much time on Youtube for a few reasons. First I don’t have much time nowadays, secondly they want to keep you on their app and force you to watch ads and as I don’t like ads I want to spend the less time there. My usage of Youtube was : I go there only to watch one video then close my tab I grab somewhere then I closed the tab. But I’ve found lately that it was not the case…

Use Jekyll Front Matter Defaults to set your layouts

I’ve been using Jekyll for years now and there are two things that I don’t like : Being unable to organize my posts in their own folder, Having to set the layout in the front matter for every content I create. I thought I know Jekyll quite well but I discovered lately that my second issue have been solved for some time thanks to Front Matter Defaults . What’s this ? It’s just a way to set some…

Enable your « eco-design » feature by default

Every year, before the winter season, I browse french ski resort sites to try to decide where I’ll go… This year I noticed that some websites had “a plus and leaf” icons in their top header. I noticed it first on Combloux’s site , a small ski resort pretty close to the Mont-Blanc, then I saw it on Megève’s site which is Combloux’s neighbour, and finally on Val Thorens’ website , one of the most…

Open the right browser for a given URL with Finicky

For years, I’ve hated the fact that when I click a link it opens not in the browser that I wanted. If like me, you work with multiple browsers you might know the feeling. We’ll see how you can solve this problem with an OSS tool Finicky , that code source is available on Github. Let’s say that you would like to : open every links that is related to your work in Firefox, open links of a Google…

Jekyll turns 15 but for what future ?

Jekyll turns 15 this month, that’s quite a lot, for an open-source project that was started by Github in 2008 to allow users to build a website for their git repository. What started as a small tool turns into one of the first (if not the first) major SSG released. I use it since 2012, it’s the tool that I use the longer for my site but it looks like Jekyll is not one of cool kids anymore… Still…

Generate Open Graph images with Jekyll

I never cared about social media sharing on my website until a few month, that can be one of the reasons why I never get any share but anyway. A few months back I added some Open Graph metas but it still felt uncomplete because when I was sharing a post in a toot there was no image. I decided that I wanted to have an image for every posts, so the only solution was to create an automatic generator…