My goals for 2025

I don’t really do goals. Or rather, I make a giant list of more or less important and ambitious goals in December, try things out, and re-prioritize somewhere around my birthday (end of March) for what will be the closest thing there is to an actual yearly goals list. For 2024, I had 8 goals.…

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.

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…

new job

had my first day at Hylé yesterday! it was great! then I slept for 12 hours! it was great! (I’ll write about the job soon probably)

I’m leaving Meta

Yesterday was my last day at Meta after nearly six years there (whoa!). It’s been an incredible journey during which I’ve learned so much − about localization, the tech industry, and myself as well. A short look back Starting as a Localization Editor was my first deep dive into understanding what makes French audiences unique…

100 day challenge: no more squats, hello photos

After 28 completed days of the « 100 squats per day » challenge, I have to stop. I started the challenge to gain muscle in my legs and reinforce my knee, which went great for a few weeks. Now, my knee is hurting again, clearly because it’s too tired. It needs rest, and a 100-day…

Torche olympique

Hier, j’ai porté la flamme olympique à Valence, et c’était vraiment très cool ! Là, c’est moi avec la flamme, dans le centre des relayeurs, histoire d’avoir une photo avant de démarrer. (Pour la « lettre de motivation » qui m’a valu ça, avec le soutien de Meta et de Coca-Cola, c’est par ici.) Ensuite,…

Une petite histoire en 20 ans

Vingt ans d’histoire sur glace (et surtout à côté), en 500 mots tout pile, qui m’ont servi de « lettre de motivation » pour porter la flamme olympique, ce que j’ai finalement fait hier à Valence. À quinze ans, après avoir fêté mon premier podium national en senior, j’ai quitté le foyer familial, arrêté l’école,…

a break from blogging?

after writing every day for a month, I feel like the blog came to a brutal stop recently. I didn’t even do the Europe2024 recap post, and let’s not even mention all the other kinds of blogging. I haven’t been interacting much with other people’s blogs either. there’s a pretty big change going on in…