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The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, by Mitski. Such a good album. 🎵

GitHub - aaronpk/Meetable: an event listing website

I just found out this project by Aaron Parecki. I just moved to a new city and trying to find local events forced me to spend time on Facebook, which is the de facto solution for venues to advertise events. An alternative would be great so I love that Meetable exists. I know nothing from the tech stack though so not sure I could contribute or tune it for my needs if i was willing to invest time on it for a side-project. 💻

TIL Je viens de découvrir que le sketch des Nuls, Omelette, a son inspiration dans une chanson de Paul Simon et Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Homeless. 🤦‍♂️ 🎵

C’est au tour de François Morel de s’y prendre au “pas de souci” 😂

My MacBook Pro from mid-2017 cannot install macOS 14 aka Sonoma. As a developer, this is a must-have. As a regular user, it is a big upset. Apple appears committed to take climate action seriously, cf. www.apple.com/environme… but avoiding existing products to become irrelevant too soon should be part of the agenda. 🌱

Fini de relire Poulet aux Prunes, de Marjane Satrapi. Masterpiece. Curieux de voir à quoi ressemble l’adaptation ciné qu’elle a elle même réalisée avec Vincent Paronnaud. 📚

I watched an episode of Super Wings! with my kids. It’s incredible how many kids shows include microtransitions, and transformations. Paw Patrol, Chico Bon Bon, and even old shows from my generation like Goldorak, or Saint Seiya. Or South Park parodies… 📺

Celebrating the 200th on my Statium monorepo. So much more gratifying for solo side-projects. 💻

I just saw Lamine Yamal play for the 1st time in the highlights from Villarreal - Barcelona. Impressive. The guy just turned 16. ⚽️

Grief is a manifestation of the courage to love

Nicely put. 🤗

xkcd.com/2820/ Hilarious. 😂

World in 2. It’s not everyday. 🎯

Wordle 776 2/6

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Last year, my old¹ guitar’s head broke. Thanks to the magic of Internet — and the kindness of TheGuitarGeekGarage who shared this “Réparation d’une tête de guitare cassée” video — I was able to fix it. Yay. 🎸

¹ I bought it in 1992. It was 30 year old when it broke.

Pourquoi tu sous-entends qu’il y aurait un souci ? Pourquoi ce besoin d’annoncer que ton ego ne va pas se dissoudre dans l’acide après cet affront qu’il vient de vivre ?

À chaque fois que quelqu’un dit “y’a pas de souci”, la voix de Blanche Gardin déboule dans ma caboche. 🧠

The unresponsiveness of the Files app on iOS is very surprising. The Books app has also this subpar feeling that has been going on for a while. If Apple wasn’t the developer I would stop using them. 🐛

My Sorare MLB lineups for GW35 are ready: Common All-Star and Majors ⚾️

Je viens de finir de lire Jolene t’es gouine, de Laurent Chalumeau. Excellent comme toujours. Mériterait un post un peu plus long sur Dead Rooster. 📚

After listening to a podcast about the science of getting psyched up, I made myself a Getting Psyched Up playlist on Spotify. Working well so far. 🎵

🎧 I had missed this band, Daughter, so far. Great band. Highly recommended.

🚶‍♂️ I don’t go to Starbucks much. But at occasions when I take long walks in Paris, I love having a Mocha Venti in my hands and sip through it along the walk.

🎧 Every month or so, I go to the “Crawled - currently not indexed” of deadrooster.org’s Google Search Console and checks the links of the 1st page. It is a good reminder of what pages need maintenance. It gives me a chance to read random older posts. This time, reading my eulogy for R.E.M. — written in French and that I have forgotten about — was particularly fun.

🎸 I fell in some intense Interpol nostalgia these last weeks. And i learnt how to play Say Hello to the Angels on the guitar. I also tried to understand how “it works” in terms of music theory.

Most of the guitar resources online lack interactivity and visual cues (even videos, which mostly show narrators speaking).

I wonder if there is an unexplored way to write nice interactive blog posts about learning how songs are constructed.

👨‍💻 Yesterday, I pulled out my Sortmash iOS app code off dusty shelves as I needed to sort a large amount of data by order of preference — namely my Sorare cards 🤦‍♂️ — and it was a very fun experience. Exploring a pre-ARC Objective-C with embedded dependencies — TouchJSON and ASIHTTPRequest — felt like traveling in time, and made me so grateful of where we stand now. Making the code run again was surprisingly easy but visually very buggy since the code was from an era where iPhone and iPad had each a unique screen size.

🍿 I just finished watching the first three seasons of Schitt’s Creek and, while it took me while to get into it — hello xkcd — I am now on board to complete the three remaining seasons. From what I heard from the show, I was expecting many lough-out-loud moments, it turns out it is a much warmer show with great characters that you grow attached to.