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 ๐. Yet I do not count traffic on this website, I do not care about stats and analytics or clicks. 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
- ๐๏ธ 2024-11-04
๐ I'm done migrating my bookmarks from Wallabag links to Shaarli while preserving all tags and Shaarli descriptions for duplicate links. I keep working on Tapas, which I explain under Ideas. - ๐๏ธ 2024-10-28
๐ 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 starting a project, named Tapas, which I explain under Ideas. - ๐ฎ๏ธ I've bought a digital copy of Undertale for Nintendo Switch, finally. So I can now forget about it ๐ and once I find the time and desire to play, Nintendo will likely have closed its store.
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Investigating a regular outage with the backup of one of my Cloudron apps. It's supposed to be a boring and classic rsync task so I really wonder what the problem is, I've opened a ticket at https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/12535/repeated-backup-failures-with-an-app.In the end it was a problem with my low-cost VPS, now I can support the popular claim that Contabo is cheap for reasons. - ๐ข First amusement park with my family and all my colleagues's families ๐ ! I was a bit sad my little one was denied access to our first roller-coaster due to his size 2cm below the required minimum. Even more sad about the rude way the staff communicated with my little one about it.
- ๐ถ Sake tasting with my brother in law !
- ๐คน๐ฅฑ My partner has been quite busy those days, so I had the joy but also the load of a parent solo for a few days, plus I'm currently onboarding a new colleague while our team capacity was reduced, so very exciting full of learning day yet I need some rest. And I respect even more any solo parent.
- ๐งฑ Lego was really part of my life and is back with my little one. For now are collecting the D&D Minifigures and also lot of Ninjago sets.
- โ๏ธ I'm taking a break with some of my daily news subscriptions: Stuut, Revue Silence, Marianne, Mediapart, @Westenberg Tech + Politics + Humans, MrMondialisation, Next, Framablog - Khrysโpresso, 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.
- ๐ซข I documented my /guilty pleasures. Maybe that could be a community thing like /ideas, /now, /uses.
- ๐ช๐ป If you want to know what initiatives I support, and if you want to support me or say thanks, visit my new /support page !
- ๐ฟ Special day at the movie theater with my kiddo. We have watched Garfield. It was not incredible but the experience of enjoying his first movie theater together is priceless โค๏ธ.
- ๐๐๐ I'm 38 ! My birthday was Aug 30. I didn't party or celebrate it, sadly.
- ๐คก๐ช๐คน๐ฝ๐ช For the third year in a row I'm in love with the unique and living master of art and spectacle for kids and grown adults known as "La Compagnie Donin" / "Le Manรจge en chanteur" / Donin Spectacle. This is a masterpiece live show kids and their parents enjoy every day from April to November every morning in Ars-en-Rรฉ. See also Spectacle Donin
- ๐ง 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".
- ๐ I've ordered a t-shirt that displays the cover of my favorite album of my favorite Metal band : Killing Season by Death Angel. I couldn't find it anywhere in Europe so I had to order from the U.S.A. ๐บ๐ธ, and because of the trouble I had to order it a second time. This was such a mess I felt obligated to tell about it at The Shipping Never Ships. I've now ordered from an alternative online store at Album Cover Stickers - Death Angel Killing Season
- ๐ง๏ธ I'm replacing my Spotify with Navidrome (self hosted) which can also scrobble to my Last.fm profile. I'm close to delete my Spotify account because after removing all the non necessary songs from their library I'm left with only one album (Killing Season) from one band (Death Angel).
- ๐ฟ๏ธ 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.
๐ผ Work
- ๐คนFreelancer and co-owner of Zoemp SRL with my partner since April 2022.
- ๐จ๐ปโ๐ DevOps / SRE at Ibanity In Brussels, Belgium since Winter 2023.
- ๐๏ธ 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 ๐...
๐ฉบ Health and Sport and Well being
- ๐ช Without enough sleep, I'm a mess. And screens lights make it very difficult to find sleep.
- ๐คฏ 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.
- ๐ค 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.
- ๐ง๐ปI've stopped climbing since June 2023, after I broke my leg. For reasons (anxiety, laziness, habits) I struggle to go back. Since April 2024 I'm climbing again, mostly in a church in Brussels).
- ๐ถ๐ปI walk and relax and chill rather than running. See also Marcher la vie : Un art tranquille du bonheur.
- ๐ฅต 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.
- ๐คซ I like to isolate myself from external noise and energy draining environments and people, I need time, quiet, peace, calm and simple things. ร, rather, I need a fewer things. I like to remove, destroy, throw away things that do not cause me stress to have them.
Projects
I'm now sharing my blog posts and project brain farts in Ideas.
๐๏ธ Culture
Novels / Essays
- ๐จโ๐ป 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.
- ๐ญ I like the idea of anti library, also named Tsundoku (็ฉใ่ชญ?). TLDR unread books are useful as a messy and inspiring pile ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ.
- ๐ ๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ 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.
- ๐ I recommend reading La Horde du Contrevent and La Zone du Dehors by Alain Damasio.
- ๐๏ธ 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.
๐ค๐ป Music
๐ต Keep track of what I listen to on Last.fm at SansGuidon's Library - Last.fm ๐ต.
Some recurrent artists I'm listening to
- ๐คDeath Angel - Official page. That's my #1 band.
- ๐คSlayer - Official page.
- ๐คCavalera Conspiracy - Official page.
- ๐คMass Hysteria - Official page.
- ๐ฆFrench variety and classics : รdith Piaf, Vรฉronique Sanson, Jacques Brel, ...
๐ฌ๏ธ Movies
- ๐บ๐ฒ I've just watched Garfield with the little one. It was his first time at the Movie Theater, in UGC De Brouckรจre (Brussels), the experience of watching a movie together was worth it, way better than the movie itself ๐.
- 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.
๐ฌ Comics
- ๐ซ๐ท Les Aigles de Rome, T6 and T7.
- ๐ซ๐ท I've enjoyed Dรฉtox by Jim and Antonin Gallo.
- ๐บ๐ฒ I've read Garfield - Comme un Lundi (T74) by Jim Davis.
- ๐ซ๐ท I'm bought a large part of Les Bidochon by Christian Binet during the summer 2024.
- ๐ซ๐ท Complainte des Landes Perdues by Jean Dufaux.
โ๏ธBoard games
- ๐ I've just bought โ๏ธ Order Overload and ๐น Power Hungry Pets.
- โณ๏ธ I love to play Time's Up Kids with my little one.