Robin Métral

I've been moving away from big tech for hosting personal projects (exhibit A, exhibit B).

In the spirit of my recent migration away from Cloudflare for static website hosting, I decided that the source code for this website doesn't need to be hosted on GitHub.

For the past three or four years, this website has been served by Cloudflare Pages.

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Dynomight on why countries win Olympic medals: Medal counts are not a measure of a country’s worth.

Everybody liked this musical film when it came out in 2021.

Slightly disappointed that throughout the whole series, the phrase "Mad Max", or "Max is mad", or any variation of it never come up in a line.1 Mad Max (1979) A bit weird.

The Hulk, but make it an ambitious lesbian bodybuilder who gets embroiled in the dysfunctions of a local crime family in small-town New Mexico.

2022 anime film by Japanese mangaka-turned-director Takehiko Inoue, based on his 1990s basketball manga Slam Dunk.

I like a lot of the ideas behind the BearBlog blogging platform: lightweight pages, RSS feeds, and "No trackers, ads, or scripts".

Wanted to start embedding YouTube videos on Eau de poisson instead of just linking over (in rare, specific cases where a video is central to the content).

This is something I've run across a few times on the road: you're roaming (e.g. you're on a French plan but on the train in Germany) and thanks to the EU you can use your data as if you were back home, BUT somehow sharing data via the Android mobile hotsp…

Weeks 50 and 51 (11–24 December 2023) This is likely my last weeknote in a while: today we're setting off on The Big Trip (!!)

Christophe Blain, auteur de BD, rencontre Jean-Marc Jancovici, conférencier très médiatisé sur les questions climatiques.

First proper nonfiction I read in a while (as in not a memoir or biography, something more scientific).

Acheté en seconde main, sans connaître et sans attentes, au petit magasin en sous-sol de Terre des Hommes Lausanne.

Week 49 (4–10 December 2023) Fondue Fondue #2 with A.

Six grands auteurs de BD visitent des grottes dans le sud-ouest de la France y voient des peintures rupestres.

Du super Étienne Davodeau, humain, vulnérable, touchant.

Doctor Who to me is another 2020 lockdown watch1, we watched basically all of seasons 1 to 12 (of the 2005 revival) and have been watching the new seasons as they were released since then.

We really want seats for this play, but it's booked out.

Single note for the first 4 films, so excluding the new Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023): The Hunger Games (2012), by Gary Ross The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), by Francis Lawrence The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1, 2014), by Francis Lawrence…

Moins aimé que d'autres Basien Vivès (Polina, Le goût du chlore).

Week 48 (27 November–3 December 2023) It's cold and birds are back.

Le Navire, Valence, 16h20, theater 3 (almost full).

Minuscule BD de Aurel empruntée à la médiathèque.

Week 47 (20–26 November 2023) Busy ranting so this will be short: Sunny cold Sad news came midweek, heading to Geneva for a couple of days next week to be with family Olives all picked, most of them will be pressed for oil, I saved three samples (different

Un Parisien part s'isoler 6 mois dans une cabane sibérienne sur les rives du Baïkal et se réinvente très vite ermite philosophe : oh que c'est profond de couper mon bois et pêcher mon poisson et regarder les mésanges qui sont maintenant mes amies, la vue…

Hey it's cool that millionaires digitize their map collection and share it with the world but why does the website, "Oculi Mundi", have to be so slow?

Watched without C, very very good black comedy, pretty dark and very tense.