tourism at home

I love Paris. I used to feel so anxious here – and since I left, coming back always feels like coming home. All I needed was to have an actual home far from it, I suppose.

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I own a Kindle Paperwhite, and have had this line since 2014 (it’s my third; the previous two were donated to two people I love who don’t have the same reading intensity I do and were super happy with a perfectly functional ereader, but wouldn’t have bought one, while I really wanted great performance. It’s…

king

so i recently received my canadian passport it’s really pretty but the intro text says: The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada requests, in the name of His Majesty the King […] I kinda forgot I had a king. cringe.

Embracing autumn

I spent most of October wondering what was wrong with me that I was constantly tired and vaguely sad. And then I understood. I’ve been fighting natural rhythms again. I realized a few years ago that life has lost its cycles. There are many cycles, and one of the most important is seasons: why do…

October 2024 in review / Récap d’octobre 2024

Une rue de Lisbonne la nuit, avec un petit étal à fruits et légumes devant un magasin.

I don’t know what happened, but October was a bad health month. It started real nice, with a nice trip to Lisbon for a conference, although I was already pretty tired by then; then coming back to Paris, which was a real morale and health hit as the only thing I wanted by then was…

Indieweb extension woes

I was tired of having to use the old WordPress editor for everything because of the Post Kinds plugin. The problem is, the Post Kinds plugin is great: I’ve used it for over 200 posts, I think, possibly closer to 300. What I especially love about the post kind plugin is that it parses the…

multilingualism and the internet

This is my entry for the IndieWeb carnival this month on the topic of Multilingualism in a Global Web. Version en français de l’article ici. Some background: multilingualism as a side effect I derive a lot of pride and a lot of cringe from speaking several languages, in the exact same way that I am…

September 2024 in review / Récap de septembre 2024

Dessin d'une femme sur un mur en béton presque recouvert par des plantes grimpantes.

September has been intense: I started a new job (yay!) as head of content for a pretty technical company, added my first roller derby practice and Italian and German courses, and spent an entire week in Paris to onboard with the team. I haven’t yet settled, but then again, I’m only beginning my second week…

Spotify and the future of podcasting is 4 years old

Liked Spotify and the bleak future of podcasting by Alex

This podcast comes in weekly episodes. But if you don’t want to wait an entire week between episodes, you can check out the entire season right now on Spotify!
I hear this once every couple of days, due to my heavy podcast-listening habits. I’m lucky enough that I don’t listen to Joe Rogan’s…

I published this post 4 years ago (as part of my October challenge of posting one piece of content per day, which I probably should do again some day). It’s funny how enshittification and walled gardens were already a huge concern but we/I didn’t have the words for them at all. I still use podcast…

massive updates on my Now page

it’s funny all that can happen in a month. nothing too life-changing, just several changes where I usually update just one detail. check it out: https://alexsirac.com/now/ and see you probably tomorrow for the monthly review, because today is shaping up to be hectic (and because I still haven’t bothered to install Obsidian on my work…