Mick F

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I lost my Klean Kanteen water bottle, which I had since October 2014. Thanks for the ride, bottle!

It had a few dents and needed some attention to stay upright, but we had a good run together.

I’ve just ordered a replacement, and it will be a Klean Kanteen again. I hope it will accompany me for another 10 years. See you in 2034 for an update.

🌱

→ 6:07 PM, Nov 20

I’ve found my go-to coffee shop for a great mocha in Rennes.

It’s my favorite since the one from the now-closed Café Craft, which served as my part-time office in the mid-2010s.

☕️

→ 5:57 PM, Nov 15

YouTube tends to transcribe “ChatGPT” as “Chachi BT”. Funny.

When you search for “Chachi BT” on Google, there are so many results and pretty much all of them are indeed about ChatGPT. Meaning that no human edited the posts before publication to fix this typo even in titles, meta tags, etc. Scary.

🍿× 💻

→ 9:17 AM, Nov 8

Notes for later.

The State of React 2024 survey lists some tools for forms and data visualisation. Since some were unknown to me, I’ll list them all here.
- Forms:
  - React Hook Form
  - react-jsonschema-form
  - Formik
  - @formily/core
  - React Final Form
  - Mantine Forms
  - Redux Form
- Data Visualisation:
  - D3
  - Nivo
  - React-Vis
  - Recharts
  - Tremor
  - Victory
  - Visx
  - Chart.js
  - Highcharts
💻

→ 11:02 AM, Nov 7

From the movie The Apprentice, Cohn’s 3 rules of winning are:
1. Attack, attack, attack
2. Admit nothing, deny everything
3. Claim victory, never admit defeat
This serves as a perfect test of assholery. 🧘🏛️

→ 10:34 AM, Nov 6

Il y a 2 ans, peu avant la Coupe du Monde au Qatar, j’écrivais :

En 2026, la Coupe du Monde aura lieu aux États-Unis, pas exemplaire en termes d’émissions de CO₂ totales et par habitant, qui pourrait alors avoir à sa tête un type comme Donald Trump ou Ron DeSantis. Au final, guetter la voie vers un avenir désirable se joue tous les jours, pas tous les 4 ans.

Bon. On y est. Ça ne fait pas plaisir, mais la conclusion tient encore la route. 💪

🏛️

→ 10:23 AM, Nov 6

Je fais ce truc de Mary Kondo où tu dois mettre tous tes bouquins par terre pour trier/jeter.

Si tu me demandes si je suis une personne qui a la lecture au corps, je dirais probablement non, intimidé par rapport à ceux qui ont déjà lu Émile Zola ou Victor Hugo, ce qui n’est pas mon cas.

Mais en fait, peut-être bien que j’en suis. Astérix, Gotlib, France Football, Mickey Parade, les Inrocks, Rock&Folk et quelques auteurs — quand même — m’ont accompagné jusqu’aux 43 piges. Est-ce que ça compte ? Est-ce que ça se transmet ? Est-ce que ça se jette ? Je suis face à un gouffre existentiel. Vous en pensez quoi vous ?

🧘

→ 2:37 PM, Oct 26

Bonne bière. Ses notes fruitées s’accordent bien avec des chips et un match héroïque du Stade Brestois contre le Bayer Leverkusen 🍻 × ⚽️

→ 8:29 AM, Oct 24

Walking to the bakery.

→ 8:05 AM, Oct 22

I just finished watching Modern Family.

For about five years, it’s been a constant part of our routine when my wife and I have lunch together at home. The last time we watched the show, Season 11—the final season—wasn’t available in France, so we rewatched the entire series. Now, we’ve finally completed Season 11. It was an emotional moment, both on screen and in our living room.

I’m not sure why it’s not more popular among our friends, but for me, it’s definitely in my hall of fame. 🍿

→ 2:56 PM, Oct 21

Many people of my RSS feeds recommended Panic’s Cabel Sasser talk at XOXO 2024:
- Kottke: Best not to know anything going into it… just watch all the way to the end.
- Daring Fireball: The less you know about this talk, the more you’ll enjoy watching it unfold. Just remarkably good. Trust me, watch it now, before anything about it is spoiled for you.
- Pixel Envy: Seriously – watch first, then click.
Watching it did not disappoint. 💻 × 🍿

→ 4:01 PM, Oct 20

I struggle with being assertive enough. That said, there’s a fine line between being assertive and being an asshole, and many people cross it. This makes it harder to want to be more assertive. 🧘

→ 12:20 PM, Oct 20

I started drawing things from a drawing book with my kids. It’s really fun. And i still have it. Sort off. 😂

→ 7:58 PM, Oct 19

I just finished watching Bad Monkey on Apple TV+. It was really good and I highly recommend it.

Some notes:
- The showrunner, Bill Lawrence, who was also behind Ted Lasso and Shrinking delivered again. The Ringer has a piece about him;
- Eve Stripling is easily one of the most compelling villains I’ve seen in a while;
- The soundtrack is spot-on and adds so much to the vibe;
- The “good guys” are all super charming and relatable;
- It’s based on a novel by Carl Hiaasen, and it feels like it shares the same DNA as the works of Laurent Chalumeau — both clearly influenced by the legendary Elmore Leonard.
🍿

→ 9:48 PM, Oct 10

Big thanks to Manton Reece for pointing me to this hilarious bit by John Mulaney about captchas.

It’s now up there with Michael McIntyre’s sketch on passwords in the hall of fame of tech-related comedy. 💻 × 🍿

→ 11:18 AM, Oct 10

Naming things is quite famously one of the hardest problems in software development.

When you realize there is a better name for something, it’s important to rename it, even if it’s tricky. Clear, accurate names improve the developer experience, while bad names make maintenance harder, slower, and riskier. Leaving sub-optimal names in a codebase is technical debt. 💻

→ 9:39 AM, Oct 9

A simple workflow for translation keys typed with TypeScript

Since my web projects use typed translation keys, my work in progress would typically add unwanted TypeScript errors every time I added a new translation key, and that would annoy me a lot.

So I wrote a little script that watches a temporary JSON translation file (as used by Lokalise) and merges it into all the translation files of the languages that are supported every time it changes.

This way, once I am done with a feature, I can upload the new keys all at once in Lokalise’s upload tool. 💻

→ 4:45 PM, Sep 30

Nick Miller and Duncan Alexander, reporting for The Athletic:

Since February 2023, [Rodri] has lost just one game for club and country, that one game being last season’s FA Cup final against Manchester United. That’s 93 games played, one defeat.

⚽️

→ 6:05 PM, Sep 28

iA Presenter looks like a really nice app. Eager to give it a try. 💻

→ 6:03 PM, Sep 28

I am a little late to start watching Malcom in the Middle in 2024, but I have spent the last couple of days by how good this show is. The last occurrence was the scenes where we see the world through Dewey’s eyes. 🍿

→ 1:43 PM, Sep 24

The Athletic now uses the same fonts as the New York Times. Excellent decision! 🖥️

→ 12:28 PM, Sep 22

Oh, Slack, you sweet rebel. Why stick with standard Markdown when you can craft your very own, bespoke, buggy, half-working version? 🤦‍♂️ 💻

→ 5:53 PM, Sep 18

Slack is gradually moving away from finished software. Instead of refining the core features of a messaging platform (like proper Markdown support, for example), each new version adds features I neither need nor want, such as task lists and canvas. 💻

→ 2:53 PM, Sep 16

This is the beginning of a so-called progressive election nerd wet dream (sic) by Nate Silver.

It’s midday on Nov. 7, two days after the election. And although the networks haven’t called the race yet, things are looking pretty Trumpy.

Reading this made me all anxious and nervous. Because of this, parce que ça, dear Americans, please vote Harris! 🏛️🇺🇸

→ 7:20 PM, Sep 15

TIL I learned that 5000 and 6000 were not good options for ports for web development.
- 5000 is now used by ControlCenter on macOS;
- 6000 is blocked by Firefox because it is used by X11.
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→ 5:31 PM, Sep 11