Now

This page is proudly part of the /now community by Derek Sivers and also part of About Ideas Now community. All those communities include this page 😎. Yet I do not count traffic on this website, I do not care about stats and analytics or clicks, I'm just trying to know what content is interesting if possible so I know which pages I should keep up-to-date. I write for myself and because I love blogging. Enjoy !

Entries are in no guaranteed order even if usually most-frequent entries appear first an old entries should appear in italic.

Misc

  • πŸ—“οΈ 2025 / April
    • I still think about my brother living in France whom I have lost touch with. Bro, if you read this, call me anytime, your godson and I miss you!
    • My partner and my boy went on the sea side for a couple days, which allowed me to catch up every evening with some beloved projects and tv shows.
    • We prepare for moving out of Brussels, we will move to Bovesse. Also we will welcome our fourth family member in September ❀️.
  • πŸ—“οΈ 2025 / January
    Big updates are in progress, but I can't yet disclose anything.
    I'm preparing to attend FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium! It's my favorite and free conference for nerds.
  • πŸ—“οΈ 2025-01-08
    I'm replacing Google Mail/Calendar with Fastmail.
    I'm replacing Google Tasks with TickTick.
    I'm trying Plex TV as an alternative to Netflix/Prime/Disney subscriptions.
  • πŸ—“οΈ 2024-11-29
    I'm replacing n8n with php scripts ran through cron jobs on a Cloudron LAMP application, thanks to LLM for easing the migration.
  • πŸ—“οΈ 2024-10-28
    πŸ”– My frustration towards bookmarks management tools keeps growing as the tools I try are rarely features complete : Shaarli lacks a tags engine and lacks content caching, Wallabag lacks a good search, Linkwarden is buggy and its content search is broken for imported links, etc. Other tools in CLI are great but I want something web oriented that I can host on Cloudron. So I'm working on a project named Tapas, which I explain under Ideas.
  • 🧱 Lego was really part of my life and is back with my little one.
  • ⛔️ I'm taking a break with some of my daily news subscriptions: Stuut, Revue Silence, Marianne, Mediapart, @Westenberg Tech + Politics + Humans, MrMondialisation, Next, Framablog - Khrys’presso, Bon Pote, etc. reason being this was a lot of negative karma on a daily basis, way too much for me, and despite all the filters I had set up on Miniflux, I was still feeling overwhelmed due to all of this.
  • 🫒 I documented things I like too much in my /guilty pleasures. Maybe that could be a meta thing like /ideas, /now, /uses.
  • πŸ’ͺ🏻 If you want to know what initiatives I support, and if you want to support me or say thanks, visit my new /support page !
  • 🎧 The Bombo Podcast (food, art, design, creators) is worth listening to for french speaking audience and deserves that I speak about it especially if you prefer to listen to people interesting stories while relaxing rather than the usual "learn something new with this podcast".
  • πŸ’ΏοΈ I've a huge collection of CDs that I didn't hear in a long time and I've recently bought CD music player from KLIM on Amazon and I've yet to complete my collection, hence if you want to help me completing my wishlist, visit my new /support page!

πŸ’Ό Work

  • 🀹 Freelancer and co-owner of Zoemp SRL with my partner since April 2022.
  • πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸš’ DevOps / SRE at Ibanity In Brussels, Belgium since Winter 2023.
  • πŸš‡οΈ Despite my colleagues work from home 4/5 days, I continue to go to the office, it's a preference, I've already covered that in the past. Anyway my partner asked what if I could set a nice home office, my main concern is probably
    • 1) Costs!
    • 2) I don't want something that makes my back suffer.
    • 3) I shall probably write a blog post soon about the other points πŸ˜†...

🩺 Health and Sport and Well being

Well being

  • πŸ˜ͺ Without enough sleep, I'm a mess. And screens lights make it very difficult to find sleep. And being an ADHD programmer too.
  • 🀯 Paperwork/administrative work drains my energy. Instead I like to eliminate, automate, delegate, reduce, simplify, you name it. But there is so much paperwork beyond what I can manage it's something I struggle still with as freelancer. And I'm not alone on this crusade.
  • πŸ€” I've been lately diagnosed with Autism, at the age of 37. That's not changing my life, but it helps to understand a few things. A lot of people are concerned with the autism spectrum disorder and it's not always obvious for them, it wasn't for me neither and I keep educating myself on this topic. I recommend this good blog Autistic As Fxxk full of resources.
  • 🀫 I like to isolate myself from external noise and energy draining environments and people, I need time, quiet, peace, calm and simple things in order to recharge. Γ”, rather, I need a fewer things. I like to remove, destroy, throw away things that do not cause me stress to have them.

Activities

  • πŸ§—πŸ»I'm climbing, mostly indoor, in Brussels.
  • 🚢🏻I walk and relax and chill rather than running. See also Marcher la vie : Un art tranquille du bonheur.
  • πŸ₯΅ I believe that any sport should first be relaxing and safe, and suffering is not a goal. We have nothing to prove ourselves and extreme sports are, think again, extreme.

Projects

I'm now sharing my blog posts and project brain farts in Ideas.

πŸ“šοΈ Culture

Novels / Essays

  • πŸ“– 🎧 I'm listening to the Audio book of Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari.
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» I've acquired a digital copy of Sustainable Dev Environments with Docker and Bash, a Book by David Bryant Copeland, about building development environments that just work, while I see too often developers fighting their local development environment, and I aim to win this fight. Yet I'm quite disappointed by the reading. Not so much I can reuse.
  • πŸ’­ I like the idea of anti library, also named Tsundoku (積んθͺ­?). TLDR unread books are useful as a messy and inspiring pile πŸ“šοΈπŸ“šοΈπŸ“šοΈ.
  • πŸ“– πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ I'm deep into T2 of Red Rising saga by Pierce Brown, which is the story of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.
  • πŸ“” I recommend reading La Horde du Contrevent and La Zone du Dehors by Alain Damasio.
  • πŸ“šοΈ Wanna read some work of Derek Sivers or maybe Douglas Rushkoff or Tim Ferris
    • Or maybe I should just relax instead and keep watching movies.
    • Or let go of things and to-dos and goals for a while.

🀘🏻 Music

🎡 Keep track of what I listen to on

Concerts / events

  • 🀟πŸ₯³ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ I'll attend Graspop METAL meeting in Belgium in June 2025, for one BIG reason: DEATH ANGEL.

PAST

  • April 2025 🀟πŸ₯³ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ Ultra Vomit (French Metal Parody) in Belgium.

Some recurrent artists and albums I'm listening to

  • 🀟DEATH ANGEL - Official page. That's my #1 band.
  • 🀟Slayer - Official page.
  • Rage Against the Machine - Official page.
  • 🀟Cavalera Conspiracy - Official page.
  • 🀟Mass Hysteria (French Metal) - Official page.
  • 🀟Ultra Vomit (French Metal Parody) - Offical page.
  • πŸ¦•French non-metal: Γ‰dith Piaf, VΓ©ronique Sanson, Jacques Brel, Alain Souchon, AngΓ¨le, Stromae...
  • πŸ“½οΈ Video games OST: Silent Hill 2, Red Alert.
  • πŸ“½οΈ Movie OST: 28 Days Later (by John Murphy).

Favorite radios / playlists in the background

🎬️ Movies and TV Shows

I used to know every movie, but I'm giving up on staying up-to-date. It's just too much for me while already dealing with too many other things. Anyway I keep watching archiving my favorite movies and tv shows and grow my collection on Plex for ease of watching them everywhere.

  • Current:
    • My 4YO enjoys watching The Mask a couple times a week.
    • Black Mirror (S07) on Plex.
    • Mr InBetween (S02) on Disney+.
    • I'm occasionally catching up with The Bear (S03) and Shōgun (S01) on Disney+.
  • Next: Severance (TV Show).
  • Past
    • The Day of the Jackal.
    • I enjoyed Sonic 3 with my 3YO and my step mother.
    • My partner made me discover Poor things - an incredible movie on Amazon Prime.

πŸ’¬ Comics

Next

  • πŸ‡«πŸ‡· Travailler Demain - A comic about the future of work.
  • πŸ‡«πŸ‡· I'm bought a large part of Les Bidochon by Christian Binet during the summer 2024. I'm writing this entry in May 2025 and I've to catch up with those comics yet.

Paused

Past

β™ŸοΈBoard games

I document my board games collection at https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/SansGuidon?own=1&subtype=boardgame&ff=1

I used to build my own board games rules as a child, mostly strategy games, role games and war games. I'm still thinking about going back to this hobby.

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