Valentin's musings

Below is my recreation of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's movie Midnight in Paris.

The Guardian: Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich New York City has FAR (Floor Area Ratio) regulations for residential buildings.

If I wanted to waste time and energy, I could create and promote the "One Is Two Society", an organization defending the idea that mathematics is wrong and that 1 = 2.

I've been reading The Meaning of It All from Richard Feynman.

Mozilla is launching one of their "shield studies" (experimental features they push on Firefox Nightly or some low percentage of regular Firefox's users) which consists in using DNS over HTTPS with Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1) by default.

I programmed a little todolist tool for the command line, and I'm not entirely satisfied with its "performance".

Disable Bash history: unset HISTFILE Encrypt: echo 'your string here' | gpg -c | base64 Decrypt: echo 'encrypted here' | base64 -d | gpg -d Both commands will open a graphical prompt for the password.

When you want to refresh some static resource that might have been cached by caches you don't have control over, you have to change the URL of the resource so that those caches won't serve the obsolete version, a practice known as cache busting.

In Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation, one of the main action scenes takes place at an opera in Vienna, during a representation of the opera Turandot from composer Puccini.

Here are my predictions for the winners of the 2018 Academy Awards, whose ceremony will take place next Sunday.

I've found out that using slashes to name git branches in a hierarchy fashion is limited to only one level: $ git checkout -b feature/public-api Switched to a new branch 'feature/public-api' $ git checkout -b feature/public-api/oauth2 fatal: cannot lock r…

I recently watched The Social Network yet another time.

I'm building a web gallery made for self-hosting.

The next version of my terminal-based ToDo application will include colors.

I've never been satisfied with the vulnerability of substitution ciphers being the frequencies of characters in texts.

I've read Big Bang by Simon Singh.

When I switched to Linux last summer, the only software non compatible with Linux that I couldn't do without was foobar2000.

Have you ever been redirected to a so-called read-only version of Reddit?

Last Friday I spent two hours fighting with the datetime class from Python's datetime module.

A few months ago I encrypted my Firefox profile.