Morgan – Peanuts 🥜

With Mistral AI fixed price for an infinite amount of API calls as part of the Experiment plan, it's just too easy to build your own automations, composed of userscripts and custom tools to complement your favorite websites.

Are you familiar with FOMO?

Depuis quelques mois déjà nous avons adopté ce rituel du bouillon d'os au petit matin, bien avant de manger ou de prendre son café.

Je souffre de TDAH et c'est bien galère de prioriser des tâches plutôt que d'autres, tant la passion de tout faire est présente.

I've accumulated quite a lot of nerd automations in my tech stack, I'll try to give an idea of what I've done up to this day For the Cloudron instance I run A cron job that monitor disk usage, using bash +Cloudron API, it will alert me via email and ntfy…

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Finding a way to scrobble live RTBF radios like Classic 21 and Classic 21 Metal to Last.fm and ListenBrainz was not as straightforward as it should have been.

I recently read Max Woolf's post on LLM use, where he explains why he rarely uses generative LLMs directly, preferring raw APIs for control.

A quick shout-out to everyone who built the web at its best.

I do love code reviews but I'm convinced they're best done live — reviewed, merged, communicated immediately.

Saving time and storage (with style) LinkedIn I reply to all recruiters for a long time.

I've a Cloudron instance where I experiment various tools.

I have taken a few habits recently: Inbox zero by bedtime.

Inspiration: https://forkingmad.blog/things-people-commonly-have-but-i-dont/ In a conversation recently with a colleague I casually mentioned I didn't have something.

When performing a task, even if it's a one-off, I believe it's a mistake to approach it with a short-term vision.

Partnership—aka living together—can be challenging, but it also opens the door to step up and lead by example.

[hint: this is not a serious post, I'm sorry if you feel attacked by this] Inspired by Google search results for "Real Devs dont" (https://www.google.com/search?

This is so to the point: OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us (404media.co), thanks to Y.

AI Agent: a cheap junior employee who has root access to your system and production and will fake competency and waste your money.

This blog is also a living document for myself so I can improve and reference this working pattern in the future.

As a gift to the community of content curators and RSS addicts, here is a simple script to generate a daily summary of all indie blogs visible in indieblog.page, because their RSS feeds only expose a few random posts while my FOMO obligates me to try to g…

There are days when I find myself completely unable to do anything productive because I’m trapped in a very negative, depressive state of mind.

In the recent years, as I feel powerless facing the enshittification in mainstream tech and social media, I've opted for alternatives to many of my previous favorite digital places and tools, namely: Audible AudioBookShelf (or Plappa on iOs), alternatively

Code isn’t just a tool—it’s a reflection of the coder’s mind, a part of their soul turned into logic.

Today is international logic day, and I really want to read logicomix comic strip someone offered me for Christmas.

Cannot really stop coding while in a task.

Can you live a day at work and at home "sans"?

Influenced by https://kevquirk.com/blog/blog-questions-challenge based on an original idea from https://brandons-journal.com/bear-blog-questions-challenge/.

A good house is one you have contributed to build or improve.

I have learned one good lesson from tasting someone's else food, it's never salty enough and I always miss the good drink pairing or something else is missing.

TLDR: In December 2023 I picked this low-cost VPS provider.

In response to https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/on-typing-fast.

Seriously I wonder what is wrong with us, computer scientists and computer hobbyists.

As a reminder of how shitty those social media can be, I'm feeling obligated to write this short rant.

I'm addicted to Changedetection for spying on website changes and internet search results for specific keywords, Occasionally also for monitoring price changes.

I deal with computers, hence I want things to work the most boring and reliable way possible, with automation, procedures, scripts, not through magic.

Sometimes, especially at night, I can't help but I feel the need to hunt down a topic and explore any link in my way til I reach an answer or a dead end.

I'm following Joy of Tech comic via RSS in Miniflux but the image was never loading.

This page is regularly updated.

Yesterday (Aug 4, 2024), on a Sunday, I went on a trip in my loved Brussels, to complete my CD collection.

A Frustrating Journey with Death Angel Merch TLDR; I ordered a t-shirt from Death Angel's online store (https://shop.deathangel.us/), but it turned into a frustrating two-month saga involving poor communication, customs issues, and ultimately, a returned…

THIS WILL BE CONSTANT WORK IN PROGRESS I've been using a paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus since May 2023 and I'm still happy with the usage.

I hate managing my mail inbox, and I guess I'm not the only one here.

i.e UX patterns that make me feel like I should report to https://grumpy.website/.

I've made the mistake many times through years.

This morning Saturday I spent hours scrolling in my RSS feeds, napalm mode, marking tons of content as won't ever read.

The engineer has good guts but often seems slow compared to the engineer.

I went up with this workflow that seem to pass the test of time and I'm sharing it with you : I manage to keep up with Inbox zero, almost.

Changes are not good or bad and not every success means perfection.

Declutter and letting go.