Matthieu's blog
I'm fashionably late to the photosphere trend (a.k.a. photobubble, a.k.a. VR photography ). The practice is already deprecated on regular Android smartphones (in favor of real 360⁰ cameras, I suppose), but armed with the arcane knowledge of side-loading .apk's, I've been out there creating beautifully flawed images. This is Stockholm in winter (drag the image to change the perspective): And…
I recently discovered Wander , a daydream tool for the small web. To complement my previous webcomics exploration , I've created a Wander console for some great sites.
While surfing the web like it's 2006, looking for new webcomics to follow and add to my RSS reader, I stumbled upon Kagi's smallcomic.txt , a list of almost 400 webcomic RSS feeds. This is great! So many wonderful artists sharing their comics online, and via RSS please. In order to find my own nuggets in there, the subset of webcomics I want to subscribe to (400 is too many of course, and not all…
For a post about org-mode kombucha I've been exporting my terminal content to html. With tmux and ascii2html (there are multiple programs with that name, here I refer to the one part of Debian's colorized-logs : apt install colorized-logs ), this is a breeze.
I've been making kombucha for some time now. The science is very much non-exact and fascinating. To keep track of experiments, I use a self-contained org-mode file.
Play accompanying soundtrack 🔊 The Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is a one-stop shop for all kinds of wonders. Often expanded, rarely renovated, this bizarre resort definitely stands out on the Strip. It's a unique sensory experience.
Back around the time I convinced my family to switch from a 56 kb/s dial-up modem to ADSL, the website milliondollarhomepage.com was launched, and quickly became an Internet phenomenon, selling pixels for advertising space on a 1000x1000 canvas. 18 years later, the homepage is still standing, proudly displaying the Internet billboard of 2005, frozen in time. Some time ago I bought one of the…
Rumors are running that python2 is not a thing anymore. Well, I'm certainly late to the party, but I'm happy to report that sources.debian.org is now running python3.
I've been trying to transmit arbitrary binary data in an URL, more precisely in the resource path. It turns out to be more complex than envisioned.
In other words, Ctrl+c on one computer, and Ctrl-v on a different one.