I love every detail of this commercial. The colours, the framing, the rhythm, the dialogs. A beauty. Not working? Hop over to YouTube to view it… The final segment « Let’s write » reminds me of the motto of my good friends at Brachard: Don’t forget to write Tip: if you’re in Gene … | Continue reading
My latest iTunes purchases have been subpar. Ever since iTunes Movie Store moved to the (Apple) TV app, the navigation has become worse. Considering it was already bad (in Switzerland) it’s not encouraging. Localisation mess in Switzerland Putting aside localisation issues (Switz … | Continue reading
The Ask ATP segment of episode 583 on case-sensitive file systems reminded me of how legacy features can sometime live on forever. What’s in a file name Around 2005, I was using a custom made filesystem based CMS for most of my web projects. My websites were usually hosted some f … | Continue reading
Following in the footsteps of CSS Naked Day, JS Naked Day will take place on April 24th, to show how the web works without JavaScript. This initiative stems from Zach’s post on Mastodon suggesting websites should have their JS Naked Day too. April 24th was the chosen day: Not to … | Continue reading
I love this blog post, discovered through my RSS feed via zeldman.com. Front-end development’s identity crisis by Elly Loel. What Elly describes resonates with me in the sense that I lived the inception and further multiplication of job titles and labels. I’m a web designer Why d … | Continue reading
Back during the 2020 semi-confinement, our daily walks took us inevitably passed a tree in a field that we ended up by calling the « confinement tree ». Each time I pass it, I think back to those days, and how lucky we were to have spent that period in such good conditions. Sprin … | Continue reading
Following my post on my Kindle situation, I ordered a battery replacement on Amazon, and proceeded to change it following iFixIt’s instructions. Unfortunately, the battery replacement didn’t work. The power button LED continuously blinks amber when connected to power, be it a cha … | Continue reading
This is amazing. Not working? Hop over to YouTube to view it… Discovered on Ars Technica via TidBITS Talk. | Continue reading
After my Kindle, another of my favourite devices is showing signs or wear and tear: my 2nd generation iPad Pro 11”. I love my iPad, and it works like a charm. But it needs to be charged more and more frequently. Battery design capacity close to 80% Its battery life is becoming ca … | Continue reading
I’m still holding my breath, but it seems one of my long standing macOS bug was fixed in the latest 14.4 (Sonoma) release! It’s a Finder (or Dock?) bug that stopped honoring the application space assignment option (e.g. assigning an app to All Desktops didn’t work for me anymore) … | Continue reading
Sometimes you stumble on gem that makes your day. Catching up on my news feed over breakfast this morning, I discovered “Chiroptera”, a collaborative project via kottke.org and couldn’t help but share it here. Twenty minutes of pure joy for the eyes and the heart ❤️ Not working? … | Continue reading
The World Wide Web initial proposal turns 35 today. From a humble beginning 35 years ago, the Web is now central to the daily lives of billions — Seth Dobbs Tim Berners-Lee in “Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter” underscores that the Web “[…] was to be a tool to empo … | Continue reading
Emma turned 23 today, signalling the beginning of “chocolate cake month”. Emma managed to found the time to share a birthday brunch with us delaying her trip to Zürich, while Mathias returned early from a weekend in the Valais to be part of the celebration, and Arthur carved out … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of rumblings going on around the wear and tear of Apple’s FineWoven iPhone cases since Joanna Stern’s thread on X and newsletter. The Verge did warn us… Personally, I am quite happy with mine. I chose the Mulberry option for my iPhone 15 Pro and was surprised by how … | Continue reading
TL;DR My 1st generation Kindle Oasis diminishing battery health has reached the point where I bit the bullet and ordered the latest version — but soon returned it. It didn’t make the cut. It seems the Kindle Paperwhite or entry line Kindle are the best options today, but I’ll sti … | Continue reading
The Macintosh celebrates its 40th anniversary today. It was launched on the 24th of January 1984. I can’t say I’ve used a Mac all of my computing life, but I’ve lusted for one close to all my computing life. I didn’t have the means to own a personal computer before 1990. The firs … | Continue reading
I can’t stop sharing this YouTube short by Elle Cordova on famous fonts personalities. It’s spot on. Not working? Hop over to YouTube to view it… | Continue reading
I’ve been listening again and again to Peter Gabriel’s latest album i/o since it was released last December. Not only is it a treat to discover his new album, even if he released one track after another over 2023 (on each full moon), it makes me happy to hear and enjoy his brilli … | Continue reading
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. —Winnie the Pooh Ermoupoli, Syros - May 2023 Happy ❤️ anniversary. | Continue reading
I think my Synology NAS continuous write issue is solved! TL;DR Active Insights and Resource Monitor > Settings > Enable usage history seemed to trigger my continuous write issue. Continuous clicking sounds Ever since setting up my home and work NAS (respectively a DS723+ and a D … | Continue reading
Zach posted a cool little seasonal web component the other day:
I closed my Basecamp account today, after having been a customer since April 2004 – that’s almost 20 years ago, give or take a few months. For those who have never heard of Basecamp, it’s 37signals’ first product, a web-based project management tool built on Ruby on Rails, first … | Continue reading
I just received Simon’s @sitenonsite final tape Tokyo that completes the Japan set. The level of care and thought (and love) that went into their creation moves me and makes me happy each time I look at them. Simon’s aesthetics and delicate ambiant art resonates and takes roots i … | Continue reading
I am not stamp aficionado, but Richard Litter’s post attracted my attention. Art in architecture The Swiss Post has released a new Fr. 1.10 stamp in its “Swiss Post art” collection launched in 2020: “Art in architecture”. The materials used for this special stamp play an importan … | Continue reading
Yay! My Playdate arrived today! As I didn’t place my order immediately, so I was relegated to group 4. I subscribed to the waiting list in May 2019, but as I wasn’t sure it was for me, I only placed my order on the 1st of August 2021. It took 2 years to get here, but it was worth … | Continue reading
My KickStarter Peak Design Micro Clutch arrived yesterday, and it’s a brilliant piece of gear. In order to accomodate a wide range of camera bodies, the Micro Clutch comes in two versions. I ordered the I-Plate version for my FujiFilm X100V. Comfortable and secure As advertised, … | Continue reading
Current vibes. Lazy summer streaks on the Lake. | Continue reading
The App Store turned 15 today. Time flies. Still. With all the rumblings going on about the App Store and its #DevRel, I decided to scroll back to my first purchase early August 2008, and it appears that I still have two of those apps installed! First App Store p … | Continue reading
A great read (and a superbe poster) with lots of references and links by Per Axbom who explains that generative AI and deep learning are tools that can be used and misused, for good and evil. If a hammer was like [generative]AI… it will mostly “guess” your aim, tend to miss the n … | Continue reading
You’ve got to love xkcd ♥︎ …and I too had never noticed the spacing between the vowels. Alphabet notes Happy birthday Anne-F Source: https://kottke.org/23/06/design-notes-on-th … | Continue reading
It’s been a bumpy ride these last few months, and I can’t wait to unplug and defrag in our favourite spot in the Cyclades. I’m often asked why I like returning to places I have already visited rather than discovering new towns or regions of the World. I make a distinction between … | Continue reading
A great little puzzle game to play with your arrow keys (or WASD) by Nicky Case. 4 keys 3 fun puzzles 1 message Playing time: 1 minute. A lovely one-minute minigame (2015) | Continue reading
Andy Bell posted a fun web component to add a verified checkmark to your website. “Why pay $8 for a checkmark when you can get one for free?” | Continue reading
The Steve Jobs’ Archive has published “Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs in his own words” a digital book of a collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews, and emails. Read on any digital device While the book can be re … | Continue reading
The lovely peoplem at iFixit are building a free repair manual for every device (beyond Macs and electronics). That’s a monumental undertaking, but they are making great progress, one photo at a time and need our help! I’ve used their guides—and set of tools—for as long as I can … | Continue reading
Have you ever got bitten by a local network setting you forgot to disable? Like an enabled web proxy or an /etc/hosts entry? Well, I got tricked into debugging my network setup at the office the other day, because of a proxy setting I had forgotten to disable. I have to use a VPN … | Continue reading
With Dictation on iPhone, you can dictate text anywhere you can type it. You can also use typing and Dictation together—the keyboard stays open during Dictation so you can easily switch between voice and touch to enter text. For example, you can select text with touch and replace … | Continue reading
Mum passed away on January 17th, 2023 and below is the eulogy I delivered at her funeral, on Wednesday February 8th, 2023 at Penmount, Truro. Brenda. Brenda was sometimes known as Bren’ to her friends. Brenda was Nana, or Nan, to her grandchildren, James, Penny, Mathias and Emma, … | Continue reading
Mum left us peacefully this morning around 6:30a holding her nurse’s hand. I trust she’s in a better place now, somewhere bathed in sun (but not too much), below wide skies, close to water, with blooming flowers waving to the sounds of (glorious) nature, surrounded by her dear fr … | Continue reading
iPod.js threw me back 20 years… sign in to your Spotify or Apple Music account and, iPod. A 1,000 songs in your pocket. I’ve connected my 2nd generation iPod to charge… Source: https://mastodon.social/@davidhughes/109687042761551289 | Continue reading
These last years, I’ve been trying to shift my freelance work from single one-off projects, to mid to long-term collaborations where I feel I can make a difference and add value. As a consequence, I’ve been spending increasingly more time on my client’s premises, which prompted m … | Continue reading
I was cleaning up my .htaccess file in an attempt to simplify it, and clean up a bunch of legacy rewrites, when ran into a regex issue that needed testing and validation. Previously, I use to edit and test the rules locally or on a staging instance, but yesterday I discovered qui … | Continue reading
I’ve playing around with BeReal since the beginning of April, and surprisingly 8 months later, I’m still using it – and enjoying it. I find it delightful to be prompted to snap a view of where I am alongside with a selfie, and discover what your friends are up to. The idea is to … | Continue reading
I treated myself to a Fujifilm X100V this summer and I was disappointed to discover I couldn’t directly attach a Peak Design anchor link to it, the body lugs are too small to fit an anchor link (1). Fujifilm stock D-rings I tried using the triangular split rings (D-rings) that ca … | Continue reading
On Wednesday at the Code conference, Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook announced The Steve Jobs Archive, a lovely simple website featuring historical material (some unreleased publicly) from Jobs’s life. This might come as a surprise as Steve Jobs wasn’t allegedly known … | Continue reading
TL;DR; Perfect grip and offers a strong protection while not adding too much bulk to what is already a big and heavy phone. It’s easy to slip on, and fits perfectly, not too tight, not too loose. just perfect. The buttons feel sturdy, and leave no space for doubt if it was presse … | Continue reading
No posts for quite a while now… I have a number of drafts I need to finish, but we’re off to Paros for a couple of weeks – see you the other side. Check this placeholder for pictures, or checout the Flickr album. … | Continue reading
After reading Brian Suda’s recent article on link rot, I ran his script on my Pinboard collection, and discovered that around 12% of my bookmarked links are invalid. AmCharts.makeChart("chartdiv", { "type": "serial", "categoryField": "ca … | Continue reading