my religion

My religion, should anyone be interested, can be reduced to a simple question: What is the most generous thing one can do in this case? If that question doesn’t apply, I have another: What would my grandfather think about this? None of which relieves me of the compulsion to cross myself in my hour of…

Evil Author Day : mes brouillons abandonnés, my abandoned drafts

Sara a parlé d’Evil Author Day l’an dernier et je me suis gardé l’idée bien au chaud depuis. Le concept : le 15 février, on balance nos idées et brouillons en public sans la moindre intention de les finir. Si quelqu’un veut reprendre les infos et idées, n’hésitez surtout pas : de mon côté, si…

WikiTok

a fun website with a tiktok-like interface, but for wikipedia! Likes WikiTok.

so you fucked up

made this for myself today to stick on my office wall since i tend to spiral over easily fixable mistakes. thought someone else might need to see this too! 🙂

January 2025 in review / Récap de janvier 2025

January 2025 includes a big win, which is that since Zuckerberg’s a little shit and US big tech is somehow worse than before, I’ve managed to onboard three people I care about very much to Signal. It also comes with less-enthusiastic news about my knee, as in, no news. It’s not better. It’s not worse.…

that bob dylan biopic

i was kinda excited about a biopic on bob dylan until i realized timothée chalamet is playing him. i don’t think i can stand the guy anymore − he did nothing wrong, he’s just everywhere.

Likes https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/libraries-and-rss/. Here was I, explaining to a …

Likes https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/libraries-and-rss/. Here was I, explaining to a librarian how to access information. A thought struck me out the blue.All libraries should know about, advocate, signpost and shout about RSS. It’s the only open, federated protocol humanity has for delivering information direct from writers to readers.

Mes lectures de 2024

Note: this article is in French, but there are many recommendations in English. You might want to scroll past the fluff to the Recommandations section if you don’t speak French! Comme chaque année depuis les premiers confinements de 2020 et ma reprise de la lecture intensive, j’ai battu mon record de lecture en 2024 en…

December 2024 in review / Récap de décembre 2024

Hi everyone, and happy last monthly notes of the year! Yearly recaps will follow in early January, so if you’ve missed some recommendations you can have a shortened list soon! I am feeling much better than last month and am very thankful for the people who sent me kind messages after my last update. Now,…