Category: Personal life
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New photography portfolio
Side note: I originally planned to publish part III of my “upgrade treadmill trilogy” on January 31st, 2022, but something unexpected came up in recent days, which might make me rewrite the majority of that blog post for the 3rd time, so… holding pattern for now. It’ll probably happen later in February-March. In the meantime,…
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The Software Upgrade Treadmill and Life’s crazy chain of dependencies — an epic tale about Firefox, GTG, Python, and Linux distros
Modern software update cycles now happen at a breakneck pace, and it can be a challenge for users to keep up. Life’s chain of dependencies to get back on track when a piece of your workflow breaks can be daunting. This epic tale illustrates the invisible struggle.
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CMSes & static site generators: why I (still) chose WordPress for my business websites
After much technological progress and considerations, I now have the tools to make this work in a way that meets my expectations.
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Introducing Regento, marketing for FLOSS-centric companies and transitioning industries
In this blog post, I’m taking a quick break from my GTG blogging frenzy to talk about another one of my non-software projects from the past few months years (estimated reading time: 3 ½ minutes). Some may remember I previously introduced the Atypica collective as a dedicated place where I could showcase some of my…
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Blogging about Python desktop apps improvements on Planet Python
Hi, fellow pythonistas! Before I start publishing future Python-related posts to this aggregator, I would like to shortly introduce myself and the reason for this blog’s presence on the planet. I am a business management consultant, but I am also, in my spare time, an independent free & open-source software developer, designer and maintainer who…
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Introducing Atypica
A while ago, I envisioned building a new* professional video production collective for commercial and non-commercial projects, both as a “creative outlet” for one of my long-standing passions, and as a way to build a specialized service offering that can act as a bridge between my own Montreal-based marketing agency and other collaborators or artists…
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Awakening from the lucid dream
As I entered the Facility, I could see Nicole sitting on a folding chair and tapping away frantically on her Gemini PDA, in what looked like a very temporary desk setup. “That looks very uncomfortable!” I remarked.
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Mon avis sur Fizz, une première offre de téléphonie mobile et data raisonnable au Québec
Vidéotron a récemment lancé une flanker brand pour combattre les opérateurs à bas coût, nommée « Fizz ». L’offre est clairement conçue pour les gens qui cherchent « la base, sans les trucs dont on se sert pas ». Et pour une fois, y’a pas de bullshit avec douze forfaits incompréhensibles: c’est à la carte…
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The Longest Debugging—The journey towards a reliable Linux workstation
I have this curse where I keep finding heisenbugs not only in the software I use, but also in hardware… The difference being that, unlike software misbehavior, hardware issues take me months to figure out. But hey, they say I’m a persistent bastard. This blog post is mainly a tale about computer hardware, which is…
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Pour en finir avec la congestion nasale: comment effectuer le rinçage nasal correctement
Ce billet pourrait aussi s’intituler « Comment en finir avec les allergies et court-circuiter le rhume, la grippe ou la sinusite », car selon mon expérience la congestion nasale est un symptôme qui empire tout le reste au point de prolonger la maladie. Quand on élimine la congestion nasale et la sinusite, on récupère beaucoup plus rapidement…