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."

"The paradox of designing for the web is that the simplicity of building a website with basic tools means it can adapt to the changing technology around it."

“The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today,” wrote Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the internet, on its 29th birthday. “What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms. This concentration of power creates a new set of gatekeepers, allowing a handful of platforms to control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared.”

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

"Robin Sloan — bestselling author of 'Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore' and Fat Gold olive oil micro magnate — and Craig discuss his evolution as a writer, photographer, designer, and 'athlete,' diving deep into his creative processes, the significance of his walks, and his membership program."

Found this weird music video and don't know what to think about it

Odymel is one of my favorite DJs which I had the chance to see once in a Boiler room-like scene so I am always looking for sets from him published online. This video is his Boiler Room set in Lyon, France

I currently consume a lot of Linux-related content and found this small channel where the creator is experimenting with Linux distros on old and more recent Macbooks.

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

A cool free and open source app for speech to text

I am currently enjoying a lot this podcast where these 2 guys dual boot Linux and Windows to see if they can at the end of the podcast delete on the 2 OSes

I learn a lot from their experiment and it makes me want even more to dual boot Linux on my Mac

A color palette tool that looks like a Teenage Engineering product

Manuel Moreale is launching a curated newsletter starting on January 1st named Dealgorithmed and you should subscribe!

"Dealgorithmed is a newsletter for the people who still love and care about the web, for those who are tired of doomscrolling the same three sites day after day.

A newsletter about the small web, the poetic web, the quiet web, the web many say we lost years ago, yet it's still here, ready to be rediscovered by those who care."

An article about the friend.com product

"We don't need an app or a pendant. We need to relearn the ancient skill of being a neighbor. Not just in a geographical sense, but in a communal one. We need to actively seek out the friction again. That's the real secret to making a friend. You have to put yourself in a position to get embarrassed, and realize that it's okay."

"Friendship isn't born in the perfectly curated profile or the algorithmically-approved match. It's forged in the shared, slightly vulnerable moments between the main events. It's the way you fumbled when you said, "Hey, a few of us are going out after work, wanna come?" It's the awkward way you said, "I noticed you're reading that book too, I loved it," when talking to a stranger at the park. It's the simple act of consistently showing up at the same place, the gym, the soccer game, the cafe, and becoming a familiar face, not a stranger."

Never forget to make backups!

"Do you want the Internet to be an extension of your existing offline relationships, or to be separate from your offline life? "

"Social media made me feel like I had no excuse to ping someone to catch up because I’d already seen everything they’d been doing, so I needed some reason to call."

Since I stopped checking Instagram regularly, I have lost touch with some people and I felt the same feeling. I am thinking of adding more people from social media in my contacts list so I can catch up with them more easily