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T his week my guest is ReadBeanIceCream . There are different hashtags that I have pinned on Mastodon like #blogging #blogs or #100DaysToOffload to follow people in the community. That’s how I stumbled upon RBIC’s profile. He writes about pandoc, RSS, plain-text and other related things. You can follow him on the Fediverse or subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️…
F acts, I already wrote what I like and what I hate . Here’s some other facts. One of my friend had an audition to be in Taken , but they were looking for someone who speaks Serbian. He gave my number, and I got two screenplays for two characters. But, I never went there. My ex heard a message left on my voicemail, and being crazy jealous, said “what’s that b**ch wants from…
M ullvad has been my VPN provider for at least five years. I wrote about it a couple of years ago, and I was happy with their services. No email, no name, payments in cash or crypto. Finally, a privacy service that was great. Everything was great until it wasn’t anymore. I read a couple of articles, and especially Mark’s post about the co-founder, Daniel Berntsson who supports a…
I have been always a big fan of keyboards, and keybindings. The keyboard will always be faster, no matter how good you are with your mouse. My friend’s example of using the mouse to create a dozen of directories always comes to mind. He right-clicked, created a directory, named it, and repeated the action a dozen times. He could have just done this: % mkdir dir-{1..12} The same goes for all…
This post is a reply to: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/are-we-becoming-too-paranoid-about-ai-slop/ T his morning I’ve read Andreas’ post, and then Joel’s and Noisy Deadlines’ too. Today, you can’t avoid AI. It’s fucking everywhere. At work, I see it in our mails, in Zoom, in Slack since I update the app this week, and everybody talks about it. The good thing…
A lmost two years ago, I wrote about saving tabs in a text-file . Yesterday, Flamed tooted about open tabs that he has read, bookmarked, and closed. I have an issue with open tabs. Often, my browser has over a thousand of tabs opened that “I’ll read later”. The original method was to use bookmarks. The new one reads directly from sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 . For work,…
T his week my guest is Alex Hyett . He’s a software engineer from the UK that makes many videos , write blog posts , and publish notes . He has also made some courses for developers. Finally, you can follow him on the Fediverse or subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Taking notes Underrated. Throughout my career as a software developer I have always had a notebook in…
W here did July go?! I feel like July never happened, probably because I’ve been busy packing up for my move. I’ve lived in the same house for five years, and I’m moving to a lovely apartment without a garage. My boxing gym was in there. We’ve collected many things over that period, and now I’ve found myself selling many things: my boxing bag, the two tons clamp used…
A ugust is there, and with this new month comes a new blogging challenge: Blaugust , the festival of blogging. Previously, I’ve seen this challenge, but I never participated because August is always tricky. End of children school, usually holidays, and a period of the year where I take some time off. But, this year, I decided to participate. Originally, the challenge was to post every day…
T his week my guest is a writer from Sydney: Richard Griffiths also known as Writing Slowly. I discovered his Fediverse account maybe three years ago on a thread about Zettelkasten if I recall correctly. He wrote also a book called Shu Ha Ri The Japanese Way of Learning, for Artists and Fighters . Go check his blog and subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Zettelkasten…
T he X4 Pro is out! And, no it’s not the latest Fujifilm’s camera, but the latest Xteink product. The improvements of their new device looks nice: front light, better battery, and touchscreen. But, also a $30 bump price compared to the X4. Will I buy it? Not sure. Why? Because this new device doesn’t offer enough. I bought the X4 after reading many toots 1 2 , and blog posts 3…
T his week my guest is Matthias Endler . I discovered his blog in 2019. I stumbled upon his post, Maybe you don’t need Kubernetes . I subscribed to his RSS feed , and have read great posts about Rust, but not only. Ah yeah, Matthias has also a great podcast Rust in Production . He interviewed various engineers working with Rust in their companies. And last thing, if you need Rust consulting,…
B luetooth is convenient to connect external speakers or earbuds. On Linux, you have bluez-* and blueman to manage your wireless connections, but you have to use the … mouse. My Debian runs awesomewm, and everything is about keybindings, and lightness. The mouse is a device I use when I don’t have any other option. And, to connect quickly, I use of course fzf and a little function: bt…
T his week my guest is Anthony FB aka AFB . He loves scary stories, Linux and OpenBSD. So it was only natural that he was invited to take part in this series. You can follow him on the Fediverse at @afb@mastodonapp.uk, and also subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Dracula Pains me to say it as I love the novel and reread parts of it quite frequently, but Dracula is…
T his week my guest is Dave Gauer . His blog is older than Google! He has rat tools for updating his blog. He loves programming, art , books , and has many notes You can follow him on the Fediverse at @ratfactor@mastodon.art, and also subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ HTML emails Overrated! I’m writing this response with ‘aerc’, a terminal email client…
J une is gone. It’s summer. A bit too much. Yesterday, the temperature was 38°C. I haven’t had this kind of temperature for a long time. This month, I missed three out of four weeks of the #EuroKino 🎥 watch parties. To be honest, I should probably cancel the weekly event. I didn’t see many people showing up anyway, so I’ll carry on at my own speed. Let’s see what…
T his week my guest is Yannick Schutz . He’s a photographer from the Finistere, in France. He loves photography, and surfing between many other things. He started a great project: Douarenn . If you need a vacation disconnected from the world, I would recommend it to you. You can follow him on the Fediverse at @yannick@social.lol, and also subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his…
Y esterday, I wrote about how I’m fed up having AI everywhere. That’s also the case in work’s email. We use Gmail for work 🤯. Here’s a screenshot of one email thread: Gmail UI - 2026 What’s wrong here? At the top, AI overview… I don’t really need you to summarise it. Even if it wasn’t enough that Google read all emails, now even Gemini does it. Do…
This post is a reply to: https://kevquirk.com/no-i-dont-want-you-to-summarise-the-page I read Kev’s post this morning. And, I completely share his opinion on this. I’m fed up with companies forcing AI into every fucking app. At work, we use the full range of big tech packages: Zoom, Slack, Okta and many more. Of course, they all have their Companions , which the Stasi would have loved…
A fter reading Flamed’s post , I took James’ quiz too about your character as a member of the blogging community. Here are my results: You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of posts on your website! Words are your best friend and you're always thinking about what to write next. You are also a Culture maker You love to help push the blogging community forward by…
T his week my guest is Pedro Cora . He’s a guy from the Netherlands that love photography, games, and also self-hosting, even if he said “I’m done with it” 😅. You can follow him on the Fediverse at @pcora@mastodon.social, and also subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Safari Underrated. For me, personally, I have used Safari since I started using Macs…
A fter reading R.L. Dane’s Junited post , and his bookmark: alias bookmarks='${EDITOR:-vi} ~/Documents/Notes/bookmarks.txt , I wanted to share how I manage mines. Tabs are still an issue to me. I always open them in the background, and tell myself, “ I’ll read that later ”. Right now, I have 178 opened ones which honestly isn’t bad. At some point, I had over 3000 tabs…
Y esterday, Michael Harley wrote about having better titles for our posts especially when they land in your RSS reader. I don’t share the same feeling about titles because the people feeds I selected are worth reading, bad titles or not. I have enough to read from my long RSS feed right now, but, sometimes, I want to discover new bloggers. To help me with that I have a small script which…
T his week my guest is Ed Leeman . From his about page, Ed is: Software Engineer Self Hoster DevOpser Photographer Dad He has been writing many posts about her self hosting, Docker, Pi-hole and many other DevOps things. You should check his blog. You can follow him on the Fediverse at @edphones@fosstodon.org, and also subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Podman Underrated!…
This post is a reply to: https://forkingmad.blog/if-i-could-be-transported-back T wo weeks ago, for the Over/Under series, David asked a question that I found interesting. David’s question was: If you could be transported back in history to a period of time, when would it be and why? Elena Rossini gave a great answer , and she surprised me when I read she “would not feel safe visiting…
T his week my guest is Elena Rossini . She’s an Italian writer, photographer and film-maker based in Paris. If you don’t know her, go check her links . She has been writing many posts about her self hosting, Linux, and Fediverse journey. You can follow her on the Fediverse at @elena@aseachange.com, and also subscribe to her RSS feed . Today, here are her topics ⤵️ FOSDEM Underrated -…
L ate, but less than the last two months. This month, my time was split between work, family activities, some poker games, reading, and watching some TV shows. I missed completely my #EuroKino 🎥 watchparties this month. Finally, after almost a month, my eyes are better. I had to take three treatments to get rid of that infection. The good news is that nobody around me got it. I bought a used…
T his month, I’ll host the Vim carnival . For every carnival, a host picks a topic, and people write about it on their own blog. The host will write a post that summarizes, and links to any submissions made. The topic I chose is: The motion that changed everything This should be great for beginners, but also for veterans to show their best moves. Don’t hesitate to contact me to suggest…
T his week my guest is David A. Jamieson , the blogger behind the blog Forkingmad , but also a blog about short fiction . From his social media profile, David is: technologist culinary conjurer drinker of wine crime fiction junkie thinker of thoughts sarcasm peddler Tudor history consumer and a blogger You can follow him on the Fediverse at @daj@gofer.social, and also subscribe to his RSS feed .…
T his week my guest is Rich Cheng , alsa know as Normal Mode on the Fediverse. You probably stumbled upon him on a Vim thread. He has a dedicated Vim website , check it out, and subscribe to his RSS feed . But, today, I have other topics for him ⤵️ Emojis I’m conflicted about emoji. On the one hand, it’s very cool that you can include LITTLE PICTURES in what is from a technical…
T his week my guest is the author Mark A. Rayner , an award-winning author of satire and science fiction. He wrote multiple books: Alpha Max: An Existential Romp through an Absurd Multiverse The Fatness: A Novel of Epic Portions The Fridgularity Marvellous Hairy ~ a novel in five fractals ~ Pirate Therapy and Other Cures All of them are available on his website He’s also on the Fediverse at…
T wo weeks ago, I broke my phone, a Pixel 7 running GrapheneOS. And, I was wondering if I should get a new phone at all. The Jolla Phone looks great, but it won’t be out before September, and there is a waiting list. Mrs Hyde told me that I needed to get a phone to be reachable. So… I bought a secondhand Rose Pixel 8, which was cheaper than the other colours. As soon as I got it, I…
H ey, this week my guest is Kev Quirk . You may know him because he collects watches, blogs a lot, created the #100DaysToOffload challenge , and was also one of the admin of a famous Mastodon instance. One of the thing, I didn’t know was that he had: 2 dogs (Staffordshire bull terriers). 🐶 🐶 A blind cat. 😼 A tribe of 8 pygmy goats. 🐐🐐🐐🐐 A flock of 25 chickens. 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔 Four fish…
A bit late, but finally here are the few submissions we got for April’s Vim Carnival about notes, and PKM. I hoped to get more people involved, but that wasn’t the case. Perhaps the next one will be. Don’t hesitate to contact me to suggest some new topics, or to be a host . Submissions A bland knowledge base in Vim by Malin Note-taking with Neovim's Obsidian plugin by Sam Vim and…
If you have the key in a file and want to know what kind of SSH key you have, you can do: # On OSX % base64 -d -i keyfile | hexdump -C | head 00000000 00 00 00 07 73 73 68 2d 72 73 61 00 00 00 03 01 |....ssh-rsa.....| # On Linux % base64 -d keyfile | hexdump -C | head 00000000 00 00 00 07 73 73 68 2d 72 73 61 00 00 00 03 01 |....ssh-rsa.....|
L ate, late, late… This month, I had poor pace at many things, like journaling, or being on time for my #EuroKino 🎥 watchparties. This post should have been published five days ago. It’s been a busy week: I broke my phone, got an eye infection that’s still there and makes me look like I was drinking for five days straight without sleep, and I went to Brittany. Plus, my ears…
H ey, this week my guest is another bear: ModdedBear ! He’s also know in the human world as Jeremy, a guy who loves: programming self hosting music games and probably many other things. You can reach him on Mastodon at @jp@polymaths.social. You can also subscribe to his RSS feed . Here are his topics for this week ⤵️ Vinyl Listening to vinyl? Underrated. I’ve only started in the past…
T onight, I joined a friend to watch the Champions League semifinals at a sports bar. Football isn’t really my thing, but the game tonight was great. There were plenty of goals, nine in total. Next week, we’ll see who advance to the finals. After the game, I came back home, and sat down to take off my shoes. Somehow, I stepped on my GrapheneOs phone. The screen exploded, and the phone…
T his week Michael is my guest. He rides an e-bike, and when the weather isn’t great he loves playing Factorio . He also has one or many aquarium, but you’ll need to ask him about them. You can reach him on Mastodon at @michaelharley@infosec.exchange. You can also subscribe to his RSS feed . Here are his topics for this week ⤵️ RSS Under. I’m a huge fan, as you’ve probably…
I had to print a DHL label to send back my old , Apple M1 work laptop. The only printer I have is the Canon Selphy CP-1500 which isn’t great for that task. But, I’m lazy to go outside. I set up the printer on the current work laptop, but the only paper print size it offered me was Hagaki . Looking online I found out it refers to a standard printing size in Japan. Basically, Hagaki is a…
T his week Geffrey is my guest. I discovered him on Mastodon, and you can follow him at geffrey@id.geff.re . Today, he helps people getting out of debt, and only for this you should follow him. He did many things, and I recommend you to check his blog. You can also subscribe to his RSS feed , and say “Hi! 👋”. Here are his topics for this week ⤵️ Plain Text Notes Overrated. I’d rather…
So, you have enabled webmention for your blog? This post is a reply to: https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/and-just-like-that
T his week Max is my guest. He’s a senior developer that works mainly in the front-end, but has experience on the full stack side too. I can’t remember exactly how I discovered his blog, it might be via Mastodon, or another blog post. Anyway, I loved his recent post Installing Android on the Nintendo Switch or I turned my DevTerm into a Game Boy Camera and Printer . Go subscribe to his…
I recently spoke to lots of parents, many of whom are worried about their children’s future. They don’t know what advice to give them. Will this or that job still be relevant in a couple of years? According to those tech bros, several jobs will disappear: doctors, surgeons, lawyers, drivers, etc. Imagine if your job vanished overnight. This could be due to AI, a pandemic, or any other…
T his week Naty aka burgeonlab is my guest. I discovered Naty via other bloggers on Mastodon. Her main blog , built with Hugo has many tips about her journey in the Indieweb, the CLI, and other tools. She also have two other blogs: eclecticpassions.net and a new photography blog under construction: aperture2iris.com Go subscribe to her RSS feeds, and say “Hi! 👋”. You can also follow…
S o, last month I started a new mini challenge , YLW ( Year of Living Without. I will continue the previous two: cold showers leaving my phone in my office when I go to sleep. But, I’ll tweak a bit the second one. I’ll use my phone after 11AM only, and will try to use it less than an hour per day. The idea came after reading Manuel’s post about reducing phone usage. Here are the…
I t’s been a while since the last Vim. Carnival . For this edition, the topic is: “How do you use Neovim/Vim to build your knowledge management?” I will summarize all your submissions in a future post at the end of April. If you don’t own a blog, check that link , and create one. If you are interested in writing about this carnival, please send me a link to your post. If…
T he sun is finally back. We spent family / friends afternoons at the beach which is great for March. I completed my YLW , which was in March to take cold showers only, and to leave my phone in the office when I go to the bed. To push that experience further, I tried to not use my phone before 11am every morning. I even left it at home when we went to the beach. Anyway, let’s take a look at…
T his week Michał “rysiek” Woźniak is my guest. He’s an activist, free software enthusiastic, and infosec guy. Go check his blog , and say “Hi! 👋”. You can also follow him on Mastodon . Here are his topics for this week ⤵️ VPNs Overrated. VPNs are a tool, and like any tool can be useful in some specific contexts, to achieve some specific goals. Problem is, big…
T his week Brennan Kenneth is my guest from Canada. He’s the founder & Lead Developer at Berry House 🍓 ( https://berryhouse.ca ), he’s a Chess player (1900 ELO), opensource contributor, writer, and has many other skills. Go check his blog , his work, and say “Hi! 👋”. You can follow him also on Mastodon , and many other places . Here are his topics for this week ⤵️ Discord…