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2026 weekly digest #3

January 23, 2026 Reading time: ~1 minute

This week I...

took my bike on a train to get closer to have a walk in mountain / forest with a friend. It was all misty but great to get a big bowl of air! And it was the occasion to discover the project of the Fish Doorbell in Netherlands (on pause until early March!) and the peasants riots nearby and in Germany (Bundschuh and the 12 articles text - in French)
listened to podcast episodes shared by a friend about typography! Style is a bit old but content remains interesting: about Donald Knuth and the birth of TeX and about the history of typography - both in French.
read blog posts: The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button (about over complexity from UI libraries) and the announce of jQuery 4.0.0! Not a daily user but there's so much jQuery out on the web that it's still useful to know what's going on.

Scanning battle

January 17, 2026 Reading time: 3 minutes

Today I scanned my driving license from my Linux (Manjaro) computer. Quite an adventure! 🤠

2026 weekly digest #2

January 16, 2026 Reading time: ~1 minute

This week I...

am reading Quality Land 2.0 : Le secret de Kiki from Marc-Uwe Kling for the unofficial office book club. As funny as the 1^st volume!
read https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/ about Date and Temporal in JavaScript. Much enjoyable! I'd like to test Temporal soon. I struggled with Date recently haha
configured our frama space (Nextcloud instance) for les éditions du samedi !
slighlty continued working on "non merci" project
tried to convince my family-in-law to switch from What's App to Signal. Not a full success but the seed is there.

2026 weekly digest #1

January 9, 2026 Reading time: 3 minutes

This is a new category for short notes and keep track of interesting (or not) blog post / info etc. !

Reading

Book: reading Piranèse from Susanna Clarke for the office book club
Blog:
- https://www.clicetcetera.fr/general/pour-retrouver-un-web-douillet/: about installing and using a version of Firefox that does not use AI / how to configure uBlock Origin (among others). In French
- https://andromedagalactic.com/blog/rethinking-tooltip-with-interest-invokers-and-popover: about using interest invokers and popover to rebuild tooltips. To be tested
Music (yes, in reading category): listened to Superbus new album on Deezer. It sounds great! I'm going to see them later this year with my sis.

Computing

Did some research about Raspberry Pi Pico for a gift for my nephew. Projects from https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pathways/pico-intro look very cool but the Kitronik kit cannot be shipped to France 😕 I found another kit on Kubii but it's much more expensive. We will ask my father-in-law if he can get the LEDs, wires and so on easily. Anyway I would be happy to have this to myself as well!
Started my "what I eat not" project. I told my mum during Christmas holidays I would try to have something by the end of the year! It was renamed "Non merci" and for now is in French. I pushed a first draft on a subdomain (and connected the subdomain to the project on GitHub in OVH backoffice! At least tried. I have to solve an issue so it is automatic). You can try it on https://nonmerci.jboisseur.xyz/
Framasoft accepted to open a frama space (Nextcloud instance) for the publishing structure I'm involved in! I'm very happy of that and I'll try to configure it this weekend.

chkdsk: Windows repair disk command

January 4, 2026 Reading time: ~1 minute

Yesterday I learned about the chkdsk Windows command. I had to use it on an external hard drive disk because it could not mount on my Linux (Manjaro) computer. The reason is most probably that it fell when it was in use and therefore was not properly shutdown.

Wrapping up 2025

December 31, 2025 Reading time: 10 minutes

2025 has been an intense year. I'm kind of happy it's coming to an end, and not only because it will reset the annual Lord of The Rings trilogy watching count. The library card will be free and we may have our first try for the baby project 😊