Recently, I interacted with Jedda on Mastodon about how she delete every year all the pics on her phone. She does a fresh reset every year, and delete all pictures from her phone. | Continue reading
A new year, a new logbook. I have been journaling for five years, since I started blogging again. During those years, I tried many notebooks brands: Moleskine, Leuchtturm1917, and Dingbats. | Continue reading
Here’s my first entry for the new challenge of this year, #the100pics ! If you are a parent, this picture will bring back many memories. Maybe some dads fainted, some didn’t want to be there, but in any case it will remind you of one of the best days of your life. | Continue reading
Most of the things I use on daily basis stayed the same in 2024. But, there was some new tools though! Here is the list of things I tried, and adopted: | Continue reading
After my December monthly summary, and my Top 50 of 2024, the next one was of course the books I read in 2024. I thought I read more in 2024, but I was wrong. | Continue reading
Like every year for the last four years, it’s the time I review my top 50 of the past year. Here it goes: My family is healthy, and that’s the most important! | Continue reading
Here we are, the end of 2024. This post will be my first post of the sixth round in a row of the #100DayToOffload challenge. This month, I didn’t even try to do the Writingmonth challenge. | Continue reading
Obsidian, over or under rated? I like the fact that I can access all my notes when I’m not at home. Obsidian provides me that feature easily because it’s available on the mobile, as well as on my laptops. | Continue reading
I don’t use the mouse often, but for Inkscape, Gimp or any application of that type, it helps a bit 😅. I own the Razer Pro Click, a nice mouse from the hardware specialized gaming company. | Continue reading
This week, the new Over/Under is about the new kid on the block, Helix. I haven’t tried it yet, but from the videos I’ve seen I don’t see anything that Vim/Neovim doesn’t do. | Continue reading
I finished the 5th round of the #100DayToOffload challenge a month in advance this year, so I’ve had time to think about next year’s challenge. I’m definitely going to take and share more photographs in 2025. | Continue reading
This post is a reply to: https://rldane.space/my-every-day-carry.html The idea to write about things I carry every day with me was on my writing list for a while. Recently, RL Dane wrote a series of posts about it. That motivated me to write one too. So, here we go. Keys I only h … | Continue reading
P itchfork¹ interviews,I watched them from time to time. I loved the idea, but not always the artists answers. They described it this way: "Over/Under" is a new Pitchfork.tv interview series in which we throw out a bunch of random topics-- people, places, foods, animals, anything … | Continue reading
Ryan Hemsworth¹ is a Canadian record producer and DJ. After a great performance, I captured him forever in this photo. Ryan Hemsworth - Paris, May 2014 @ 04:10:32AM Links ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Hemsworth#cite_note-18 | Continue reading
Alexandra tooted¹ asking if we answered Colbert’s 15 questions like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and George Clooney did². I was always amused by these questions, and especially by the answers of others. Here are mines: Best sandwich? Toasted sandwich with any kind of things inside. W … | Continue reading
I listened to many podcasts, and you can find more about them in my monthly roundup. Recently, I came across some podcasts with topics I was interested in, but they were over one hour long, so I didn’t subscribe. For example, “The fall of civilizations” podcast by Paul Cooper, re … | Continue reading
End of November already. One month left to close 2024. This is the 99th post this year. My next post will complete the fifth round of the #100DayToOffload challenge. This month, I joined the #WritingMonth challenge with a goal of 20,000 words. I failed, miserably, with 4348 words … | Continue reading
Metro, Paris, alone. I love this picture. If you don’t mention the location, it could be anywhere… An atomic shelter. A dystopian underground tunnel leading to a jail. Or, the metro 😅 Paris, France - August 2016 - Fuji XPro2 | Continue reading
This is the second post about my keybindings. The the first one¹ was about shell aliases, this one will be about the terminal multiplexer, tmux. What is Tmux? Here’s an excerpt of the apt’s description: Tmux enables a number of terminals to be accessed and controlled from a singl … | Continue reading
In 2019, I made the decision to return to blogging. After years of limiting myself to tweets, and social media statuses, I was ready to dive back in the blogging sphere — a space I’d missed deeply. That was not the Internet I enjoyed growing up. Once a haven of creativity and con … | Continue reading
I love shortcuts, keybindings, and everything making me faster on a computer. Even on my phone, gestures are helping me to get some apps. That addiction I have to make small scripts, aliases, & co, made me think it would be nice to share some of them, get inspiration from others, … | Continue reading
Boxing is an old “gentlemen’s” sport, plain, and simple. Many are wrong. It’s not just about size and muscles. If you want to be good at this, you need to work on your skills, develop your eye for detail, and just keep practising. Repetition is the key. Boxing is for you either y … | Continue reading
Reading old posts that my miniflux brought back to the surface, I stumbled upon this post on Derek Sivers' blog: Short URLS: why and how¹ And, I think I agree with everything mentioned there: Yes, they are easier to type or to say! Yes, they look nicer! Yes, they are enough! And … | Continue reading
I was intrigued by Alexandra’s post¹, which was following Gabz post², about something called “What’s In My NOW?"³ Like Alexandra, I’ve never heard about it. So, I checked the website. They started with a series of “what’s in my bag?” posts. Then, in March 2021, they changed it to … | Continue reading
La “Favela Chic”, is a restaurant/club in the heart of Paris where I frequently visited. It was interesting to see people from different walks of life there. On that particular evening, I took a photo of Naomi. If you wonder who is she, she’s not the one with the bottle in her ha … | Continue reading
Challenges! I’ve done, or tried a couple over the years. The one I had the most success with is the #100DayToOffload one. I’ve already been doing it for 5 years in a row. Time flies! I heard before about #NaNoWriMo, but instead of joining that one, I’ll join the #WritingMonth, cr … | Continue reading
Another month has passed. I remember my parents saying the older you get, the faster the months go by. I discovered two new podcasts, I managed to finish some books, tried to get back in shape, and many other things. Podcasts Two new podcasts this month: Criminal attorney - A law … | Continue reading
Post 88/100 - Round 5 of the 100DaysToOffload challenge In my attempt to complete the #inktober challenge, I failed miserably. Life overtook me. My daily job, family life, training, reading and other things have taken over my daily doodling. Just after 11 days₁, I stopped drawing … | Continue reading
A cold January night of 2012, Lille, France. There weren’t many people out and about. I was heading back to my hotel when I noticed a woman wearing what looks like a fake fur coat that caught my eye. The camera used was my first Fujifilm camera, the first edition of the famous X1 … | Continue reading
The terminal, and the CLI are the tools I’m using every day. I spend my days in terminals between my job, and my private projects. For this blog, I have two small scripts: one to resize images one to add a shadow to an image For both purposes, I use imagemagick. It’s a collection … | Continue reading
Remarkable looks like a great company, or at least they respect their customers. Let me explain why. First, I wrote₁ about the fact that I was able to get a refurbished one for “only” €137 after I cracked₂ it. Also, I remember seeing somewhere online that if you bought your devic … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, I was a barfly. I was out almost every night. And, going you go out that much you meet people. One night, I met Thomas Ngigol, and Karole Rocher, two French actors, that, today, who now share their lives. Karole Rocher, I discovered her in Braquo, a French crime dr … | Continue reading
Woke up time: 5:37AM! Less than five hours of sleep, for a Sunday morning is probably a nightmare for many, but I like the quietness of those mornings. But, today it’s a weird dream that got me out of the bed. After years, I met my old basket-ball coach. We talked about our lives … | Continue reading
As many of you are already aware, the ".io" domain name will no longer be available. And, this blog needed a new TLD! Four years ago, I read Yarmo’s post, and it helped me to realise there were issues with that domain name, but I never changed it. I supposed it’s called Lazybear … | Continue reading
Rome, I’ve been only once there, and I loved it. The only downside was the taxi driver who wanted to show me the all city before getting to my hotel.😅 The other thing that impressed me was the size of all the monuments. Everything was on a huge scale. And, I also enjoyed … | Continue reading
I had exactly the same issue until last week when I decided to clean my Faber-Castell E-Motion fountain pen. But, what happened? That fountain pen cost me €120 in 2019. Today, exactly the same model cost €180. 🤬 I used the Parker Quink Ink for the last five years with tha … | Continue reading
This year, I decided to join the Inktober challenge. Yeah, another challenge 😅. When I was a kid, I always loved to doodle around in my notebooks, but as I got older, I lost it until I had children. Now, here and there, I draw with them, and do many other activities that … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, I used to party a loooot. Every time I went out, I always had a camera with me. Some pictures can be seen here, 2, 3. I’ll try to update my photography section with all those pics. That’s how I drowned with rum two Fuji X100. They were still functional, but when it … | Continue reading
Vim is great to autocomplete many things. If you have an LSP installed it’s even better. But, by default, Vim provides many autocompletion features to help you in your writing. What can you autocomplete? Numerous things: Words in the thesaurus CTRL-X CTRL-T Words in the dictionar … | Continue reading
I installed Miniflux last week, and when I opened it I had almost 6k posts. Miniflux dug up many old posts. Some of them are 20 years old! My goal is to browse them, and when a title catches my attention, I’ll read it. If the title isn’t explicit, I’ll just mark them as “read”. H … | Continue reading
September is already over. I’ve got a lot done this month. I’ve watched lots of movies and TV shows, and I’ve almost finished one book and started a new one. I’ve also got back to sport, intermittent fasting, and lots of note-taking in an effort to improve my Zettelkasten. Podcas … | Continue reading
Ellane publishes every week a “Plain Text, Paper less” aka PTPL post. This morning I read her post Saving Safari tabs as Markdown links. I don’t use Safari, I use Librewolf, a privacy focused fork of Firefox. And, I use Tridactyl, a Vim experience in your browser. If you are a Vi … | Continue reading
My summer 2024 shots between Paris, Lisbon, and the West Indies. Summer 2024 0046 Summer 2024 0050 Summer 2024 0057 Summer 2024 0070 Summer 2024 0071 Summer 2024 0072 Summer 2024 0077 Summer 2024 0081 Summer 2024 0125 Summer 2024 0135 Summer 2024 0144 Summer 2024 0149 Summer 2024 … | Continue reading
This summer has gone by far too quickly. Between Lisbon, Paris, and the West Indies, here are pictures of those two months. A chicken on a beach in Guadeloupe Post 73/100 - Round 5 of the 100DaysToOffload challenge ! | Continue reading
Habits, I think I’m too old to break them I guess. I’ve been using Librewolf for over 3 years now, and I’ll continue that way. Privacy While the Zen browser looks fine, some of their settings couldn’t get me “a strong protection against Web tracking” when you test it on Cover You … | Continue reading
I spent the evening watching the third season of Slow Horses, and did at the same time a change of the CSS of this blog. The dark background was something I wanted to change for a while. I wasn’t really sure if a modification of the colour would be enough. At the end, as you can … | Continue reading
Once I got my Miniflux installed, I browsed articles from my feeds, and one catched my interest: My A-Z toolbox: aria2 by Ruben Schade. He’ll be listing all the tools in an A-Z series of alphabetically ordered posts. His post inspired me to do the same. So, here are the tools sta … | Continue reading
This summer was the first time I went up so high in trees. Younger, I did climb up, but acrobranching wasn’t something I had the opportunity to try. I don’t even think it was a thing back then. Acrobranching in Guadeloupe - August 2024 - Fujifilm X-Pro3 Post 69/100 - Round 5 of t … | Continue reading