openheart protocol installed!

I have now installed the Openheart protocol to my blog, which means you can click the little heart emoji and it will make me happy. (Nothing else.) Huge thanks to Tracy for her step-by-step tutorial, I only had to find where to put the code snippet in my theme (which is very different from hers)…

I have a Now page

Liked Now

🤩 Alex
🎂 30 ans
📍 Grenoble, France
📚 J’apprends | Learning CS50 – Introduction to computer science. Coursera: Introduction to technical writing.
🧳Je voyage | Travel Fini : Interrail en avril 2024. Prochain: probablement en juin pour le travail.
🏗️ J’y travaille | Working on…

made myself a now page! J’ai une page « Now » qui résume rapidement ce qu’il se passe dans ma vie !

Publish to WordPress (Obsidian) to preload images

The Publish to WordPress plugin for Obsidian has this amazing feature where once you’ve uploaded a draft it changes the internal embed links into online embed links. This means that I can choose my photos and throw them into my generic outline, upload the draft to WordPress, delete the draft, work offline on the train…

My web archive, from 2001 to 2022

Finding the Internet Archive link for my 2012 blog made me realize that the Internet Archive (bless them, and of course, support them financially) has a bunch of my 2012 to 2017 blog posts which I mostly considered lost forever. While I might prefer for them to be lost forever, I’ll still dive into the…

Evil Author Day is a great idea

Liked Have the Delete Your Drafts Day for Our Blogs, but also Evil Author Day by Sara Jakša (Sara Jakša)

And then I remembered about the Evil Author day. It is celebrated in some parts of the fanfiction community on the 15th of February. On this day people can post their unfinished stories and probably also other art, with full intention to never finish this.
I…

I love the idea of Evil Author Day! It would be much more satisfying than Delete Your Drafts day. Looking forward to offloading some stuff next February 15, and thanks for sharing, Sara!

101 blog posts ideas for your personal website

Inspired by James’s recent lists of 100 things you can do on your personal website, here’s a list of 100 blog posts you can write. They’re based on enthusiasm for blogging and writing, not SEO or career advancement like so many of these lists are. I didn’t want to say content so I said blog…

leap

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…

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…

about family, friends, colleagues reading your blog

Liked hiding in plain sight (yours, tiramisú)

A lot of people ask me how I feel comfortable sharing my blog with so many people in real life. (…) It takes a lot of effort to keep up with a blog that has no native subscription/notification feature. In my experience, the people who actually keep up with your blog will make themselves known quickly. And the rest you don’t have to worry about.