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today was a really long, fulfilling but exhausting, day. I wanted to do « delete your drafts » day and tell you all about it. I went through every one of my drafts and decided to keep the ones I am still excited about writing. That’s 11, with all of the 2020-2022 drafts gone. Of course, by…

Another thing to do with your website

I’ve spent some time tinkering with the blog this week, notably reorganising the sidebar. This includes adding an activity ticker based on how many posts I made per week over the past 60 weeks and adding the « On this day » widget that I had been thinking of for years. Years! Those ideas came…

râlage sur les adq wikipédiens

Il peut être extrêmement frustrant de proposer un article à un label sur Wikipédia. Par exemple, Chantons sous la pluie, long mais pas extraordinairement indigeste et au sujet pas particulièrement pointu, me semble-t-il, a 3 avis exprimés en 14 jours. Peut-on encore se faire plaisir sur les démarches de labellisation sans rameuter sur ses comptes…

small moment of pride: i finally managed to solve an exercise in the CS50 (intro to computer science) course. module 4 has been killing me for two weeks and finally figuring one out makes me feel so much better. on to the rest of module 4 and to, hopefully, move on from this whole Memory…

I’m doing good

I didn’t have time or inspiration to write my entry for the Indieweb Carnival this month around positive internationalization, so as promised a few days ago, here’s the very, very short thought I was hoping to elaborate on: I recently noticed that I didn’t set New Year’s resolutions. I have some goals, sure, like finishing…

Light anxiety around writing for January 2024

I’ve gotten a bit lost in the past few days, because of a small surge at work and of the États Généraux de l’Information weekend (it was great!). I’m late on quite a few things related to writing, notably: My participation for the IndieWeb carnival on the topic of positive internalisation: I’ve had my idea…

toute la misère du monde

j’apprends au détour d’une recherche sur le discours de grenoble que si on connaît bien l’expression « la France ne peut accueillir toute la misère du monde » de Michel Rocard, il avait fini la phrase par « mais elle doit en prendre fidèlement sa part ». marrant, cette mémoire sélective.

Need happy book recommendations

I’ve been on a depressing read binge. My latest book really affected me and looking at my bookshelf, I only see depressing and bleak stories – genocides, depression, racism, suicide, climate change… I need recommendations for uplifting books, fiction or nonfiction. What do y’all have for me? @chat@literature.cafe

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! I’m a real grownup now: I’m delighted because I got a vacuum cleaner.