"One could give many examples of times when the tech-industry convinced itself it needed to respond to needs that no one ever expressed, or to technologies never requested. 3D televisions, curved screens, foldable smartphones, smart homes. Throughout all this, printing a document has remained the same frustrating experience as always."

"There are technologies that make us more free, more capable, more independent, or that simply make our lives easier. If something gives autonomy, if it allows you to do things you wouldn’t have done, if it empowers you, than it is useful tech.
Everything else should be avoided, because in the best case it's pure consumerism, in the worst case it's the surrender of another piece of independence to the usual feudal lords."

You don't need to make it complex

"This got me thinking that a piece of software might be outdated, replaced by a newer version and not be supported by the manufacturer anymore - but that doesn't mean it's bad and can no longer be used."

"To make a long story short: Old doesn't necessarily mean bad and useless. It can also mean good enough, no reason to change."

I love experiments around offline, low tech, and simpler tools that fits people's and not businesses' needs

Keeping in mind since I would like to switch one of my mum's PC to Linux

A React developer explains why he no longer recommends React for new projects. citing three major problems.

His recommendations at the end : Vue, Svelte, or Lit for SPAs, and Astro for content-heavy sites.

J'adore faire ce genre d'outils car dans leur simplicité, ils résolvent des problèmes importants pour leur créateur

"Et c'est ainsi que naissent les moulinettes. Quand une personne dispose de la bonne boîte à outils, quand elle perçoit un obstacle à sa portée, elle sait qu'une moulinette peut résoudre son problème. Le nom de la moulinette est simple, factuel. C'est un résumé de ce qu'elle doit faire. Ce n'est pas un nom de produit, de projet. Pas besoin de marketing. La moulinette n'a rien à vendre.

La moulinette, c'est de l'artisanat.

Dans l'ombre, les moulinettes tiennent en équilibre le monde numérique."

An example of home-cooked software and an interesting one that I could try!

Followup article here https://alexwlchan.net/2025/mildly-dynamic-websites/

De supers recommendations d'applications Linux que j'ajoute à ma liste d'apps à installer et à tester le jour où je saute le pas et fais un dual boot Linux

Simone from Minutes to Midnight is doing an experiment where he is setting up old versions of macOS and using it daily. Interesting experiment to follow that makes you reflect on how enshittified our tech experience has become

A nice toolbox with privacy in mind from the folks at Framasoft

A cool free and open source app for speech to text

Never forget to make backups!

Always interesting to see how other peoples are building their websites. I don't want to change my workflow but I am interested in learning more about pandoc

I found so cool scripts from his dotfiles, added to my own dotfiles!

I've been thinking of creating a home server for a couple of days and am currently reading about it. Current software I am thinking of running is Jellyfin, piHole, Tailscale and probably some more so I am taking ideas for this blogpost by Kevin Wammer