I loved learning about Nagasaki. Like many people, I thought the city was destroyed during WWII but in fact not

I don't have a lot of meetings, less than 5h per week (outside of calls with one teammate) but I still found some useful advice in this blogpost. I implemented 'Schedule a day after vacation as reentry time.' and implemented a calendar budget by blocking events at the beginning and end of day to have a buffer to prepare and end my days.

Related to the previous link shared :

"Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” is about platforms. This is about products. I call it ensheinification, because everything in the market is becoming Shein. You can buy expensive Shein, or you can buy cheap Shein that breaks after 2 uses."

Since I realized the impact of enshitification, I am also looking for the dumber option now when I buy something. It's much better in the long run

A testimonial for a boring life.

"We spend so much of our lives chasing a version of “enough” that was never ours to begin with. Always trying to catch up. To know more. Do more. Become more.But maybe… the answer was never “more.” Maybe it was less."

"The world rewards loud voices, fast growth, constant novelty. But introverts, we thrive in silence. In the quiet walks. The familiar tea cups. The slow mornings. The repetition that grounds us."

"Maybe the real secret is simply to stay. Stay with your silence. Stay with your quiet hobbies. Stay with your boring, beautiful life.Because sometimes, in choosing to be “left behind,” you finally return to yourself."

Another blogpost on the impact of LLMs

I love the Web and I also hate the Web. Nowadays you need at least uBlock Origin to enjoy the web. I don't know how people do it

"Am I worried about losing my job? Sure. It seems almost assured that eventually, my skilled craftsmanship and decades of experience will be replaced by a huge machine that churns out low-quality versions of what I used to painstakingly produce. Undoubtedly, this machine-slop will be cheaper to make, leading to the death of my craft and the loss of my knowledge, all so we can reflexively consume greater quantities of mass-produced garbage and keep the working class poor. I get why the Luddites are pissed, I really do."

"I still don’t get how common the idea is that if you’re not participating in the modern dystopian web, you’re just an outcast, all alone, lost in the woods, not knowing what everyone else is up to. Did you all have lives before all this? Don’t people have family and friends, along with their phone numbers, house addresses, or emails? Why do so many folks feel the need to know what a huge number of strangers are doing, right now, in a completely different part of the world?"

A 100% yes! 🙏

A JavaScript library for simple biological simulations and cellular automata. Found thanks te Dealgorithmed by Manuel Moreale

This year is already the year of Linux

"But even in those communities there's always the crafters: the people who care and will have you and teach you and support you.
That’s how I’ve been surviving since 2015. By trying to mingle and be where the crafters are. If given the choice wouldn’t you rather watch an Oscar nominated film instead of a fast-produced straight to streaming film? Wouldn’t you take a carefully ethically crafted wool jumper instead of a She-in polyester one?"

J'ai appris 2 notions en même temps grâce au Hollandais Volant, le rasoir de Hanlon et la loi de Grey.

Le premier : « Ne jamais attribuer à la malveillance ce que la bêtise suffit à expliquer. »

La seconde : « À un degré suffisant, la bêtise ou l’incompétence sont indistinguables de la malveillance. »

L'humain est oublié dans cette course à l'IAg et n'est pas une fatalité. J'utilise l'IAg donc je ne suis loin d'être parfait sur ce sujet

Un site très utile en cette période

I have been using NoScript for almost 2 months now and block JS by default on websites and it's been mostly great. A better experience and it's easy to enable it just once or to setup a rule to only allow a specific JS element when a website is broken. (For example on ecommerce websites)

Merci à tous les outils qui essayent de nous protéger de cela 🙏 uBlock Origin, Pi-hole, Mullvad, ...