For Android users who want to switch to Open source alternatives to stock apps, Fossify has a great set of apps.

I started using this excellent tool by Sindre Sorhus to improve the overall Mac experience, with several small improvements super easy to enable!

Check the efficiency of your ad blocker with Toolz. A simple website to correctly setup your ad blocker.

A French government website sharing various maps and infographics. Found thanks to Louis Derrac.

Fight enshittification by using RSS to consume online content. I have been doing this for a while and could not recommend it enough!

"Software that’s speedy usually means it’s focused. Like a good tool, it often means that it’s simple, but that’s not necessarily true."

"To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance."

"Fast software is not always good software, but slow software is rarely able to rise to greatness."

"En avril 2023, le Centre de compétences en durabilité de l’Université de Lausanne a publié une étude sur l’impact du numérique et du télétravail, peu diffusée dans les médias. Et pour cause: Johann Recordon y démontre que les problèmes créés sont nombreux"

I did not think a video about a paperclip factory video game would go much further than just being a game. It deals with automation, efficiency and the potential consequences of artificial intelligence. Ultimately, it raises questions about the future of intelligence and our relationship with machines.

Privacy Guides is a useful non-profit website to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life.

"L’addiction à cette constante nouveauté, couplée avec l’ubiquité d’une connexion mobile permanente, a rapidement fait disparaitre la moindre minute de vide, d’ennui, de rien. Depuis les toilettes à la récupération après un jogging dans le parc ou la file d’attente au supermarché, chaque minute qui était auparavant « intellectuellement gaspillée » peut désormais être remplie d’une quelconque nouveauté aléatoire. Ou, tout au moins, d’une quête de ce genre de nouveautés.

Malheureusement, les idées ne naissent que dans le terreau du rien, du vide, de l’ennui."

Many young people across Asia are cutting themselves off from society, locking themselves at home for months or years. Here’s why.

My friend Marius made me discover the writing of Ploum and I spent a day reading everything he wrote on this blog. Lots of interesting topics written about!

With this article, we focus on the simplicity that is sometimes missing, the trend of overengineering products even if it becomes detrimental. I would add another article to the list, the file-over-app philosophy by Steph Ango from Obsidian. It is more complex than just going for the simplest tools, it’s about listing your needs and focusing on the tool that answers them.

Developers, home buyers and Western bankers all ignored warning signs; ‘financial anomalies’ and ‘shenanigans’

Why information speed matters

Such an interesting video on life which goes beyond just a video game

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.
WordStar 4.0
As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”.
Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it:
It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else.

A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.