Mick F

Je pense aujourd’hui plus que jamais qu’il est important d’avoir une présence sociale sur le web.

Puisqu’il est sans doute trop tard pour un monde où l’influence des réseaux sociaux n’existe plus, alors on en revient à la question du “c’est comme tout, ça dépend comment c’est fait”.

Ma réponse actuelle à comment le faire bien est cet espace sur Micro.blog.

Je détaillerai ça très vite dans un post long, mais en attendant, je me réjouis de l’arrivée sur la plateforme de ma chère et tendre. Bienvenue Alkidel. 🤗

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Finished watching Andor S2.

It was very good.

I remember being impressed by a scene from S1 where with just the right questions and the wrong answers, tension between a policeman and a random passerby could escalate very quickly. That moment stuck with me — and I think plenty of scenes from Season 2 will, too.

It’s a dark show, no doubt. But knowing it all leads to a successful rebellion against a fascist regime gives it a strange, uplifting power.

I think i’m up to rewatch the whole thing from the beginning again, and queue up Rogue One right after.

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Extrait de Les vivants :

Bref, elle est restée bloquée dans le vieux rock, The Police partout, Justice nulle part.

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Bravo Ambre Chalumeau. 🍿

Après Un Été 2023, mon ami Joe Gantdelaine et moi rattrapons doucement notre backlog de nos compiles trimestrielles que l’on publie sur Dead Rooster. Aujourd’hui, nous sortons Un Automne 2023. Allez l’écouter, elle est cool et a une jolie photo de Guy Marchand et Bernadette Lafont en cover. 🎵

After a clean macOS reinstall, running a web project using the canvas package (via react-pdf) failed with the following error:

Cannot find module '../build/Release/canvas.node'

Many occurrences online suggested that fixing this only required to reinstall the package but it turns out that in my case, a Python library was missing:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

It turns out what fixed the error was:

pip install setuptools

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This Niamos! theme by Nicholas Britell for Andor is quite something. I already loved it when i watched Season 1 but the wedding party in Season 2 makes it even better. 🍿 × 🎵

Le Hangar. 🗺️

Okipic citron concombre menthe. Très bon. 🧘

Aujourd’hui, je vois des publicités pour Instagram où la plateforme prétend jouer un rôle dans la législation européenne sur l’accord parental pour les téléchargements sur l’App Store. Les potards de pompiers pyromanes sont à 11 chez Meta. 💻 × 🏛️

My tech blog is now located at https://mickf.net/tech/.

For the last 15 years or so, I used the hostname bootstragram.com, but I grew tired of the name. It brings back stressful memories that make me clench my teeth. I prefer to consolidate all my online presence under mickf.net from now on. I have completed the most part of the redirection tasks and will finalize the details in the coming weeks.

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Finished watching White Lotus S3. The finale did not match the really high expectations we had from watching these reactions on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, but it was still pretty solid. I had a good share of laughs and of Schadenfreude satisfaction with this show.

Fun facts about the cast:

• Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Frank (Sam Rockwell) are married in real life;
• Timothy (Jason Isaacs) is Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies. Of course!;
• Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) is Arnold’s son;
• The show was written by Mike White, who is Jack Black’s friend in School of Rock, which he wrote, as well as the hidden gem Nacho Libre. He also wrote Migration, which I highly recommend
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The producer of Bohemian Rhapsody, Roy Thomas Baker, has just passed away. Reading an article by the New York Times about the song:

Mr. Mercury, who died in 1991, always refused to explain his composition other than saying it was about relationships. (…) Mr. Baker said, with a hearty laugh, “If I tell you, I would have to kill you.”

Just this Monday, we listened to the song on our way home from a family trip, and I wondered what the lyrics meant. I wondered if the lyrics were appropriate for the kids and recalled that I had written an essay about the song when I was 12.

RIP Roy Thomas Baker.

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Finished watching Welcome to Wrexham S1. For some reason, it took me 15 months to watch all 18 episodes. While it has brilliant moments, those gems might be too infrequent to make me want to binge-watch. 🍿

Steve Kerr est devenu l’un de mes héros. Son soutien à Harvard et le choix des mots qu’il a utilisés pour l’exprimer reflètent un humaniste, porteur de valeurs auxquelles je m’identifie.

Et ce n’est pas la première fois qu’il fait preuve de classe : exhibit A, exhibit B.

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TIL un des chants de supporters les plus chantés au stade Francis Le Blé lors des matchs du Stade Brestois 29 est adapté d’un classique du folklore américain : Oh My Darling, Clementine. 🎵 × ⚽️

Quand tu as rendez-vous à disons 11h15, mais qu’on te précise qu’il faut arriver 5 minutes avant, est-ce que ça ne veut pas dire que tu as rendez-vous à 11h10 ? 🧘‍♂️

Le Motel.

Petit à petit, mon grec progresse. 👨‍🎓

Depuis quelques jours, j’ai recommencé à utiliser Swarm pour check-in dans des lieux de Rennes. Ça permet d’isoler et de contextualiser les food pics et ça me permettra de faire une carte de mes spots rennais d’ici quelques mois. (Merci à Aaron Parecki pour l’inspiration)

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A Fuoco Nero.

Le Failler.