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Step aside, phone: week 1
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5 min read
Yesterday, I joined Manu’s experiment to reduce the time we spend on our smartphones. Every Sunday, we share our screen time stats and reflect on how the past week went. Here is my first weekly recap. First week report This first week report does not include the day I’m writing this, which is Sunday 15th,…
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Step aside, phone!
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3 min read
Yesterday evening, as I was browsing some of the blogs I enjoy reading, I stumbled upon the post Step aside, phone by Manu, who started a challenge open to anyone interested: For the next 4 weeks, each Sunday, we’re gonna publish screenshots of our screen time usage as well as some reflections and notes on…
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After the lights
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2 min read
There is a particular warmth to Christmas. It’s a cozy, suspended moment, shared with family and the people who matter most. But every year, as the celebrations fade into the first days of January, I find myself walking into the same scene. As I wander through the city, around a street corner, I come face…
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Quelques mots pour commencer 2026
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11 min read
Je ne me suis pas trop foulé pour trouver le titre de cet article, j’ai pris le même que celui de l’an dernier et j’ai juste changé l’année. Au-delà du titre, 2025 vient de tirer sa révérence et nous voici en 2026. Il est l’heure de se poser pour faire un petit bilan sur l’année…
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htb83.agp
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4 min read
I’m currently rewatching The Big Bang Theory. I watched it once while it was airing on TV and I liked it a lot. It ran for more than ten years and I got so used to the characters and locations that when it ended, I felt a bit sad. It was like saying goodbye to…
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The joy of blog wandering and slow reading
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3 min read
I enjoy browsing personal blogs and small personal websites. There’s something fascinating about deep diving into the worlds of complete strangers, whose small corners of the web I stumble upon while wandering across our beloved world wide web, through the magic of serendipity. I like these moments when I’m comfortably settled at my desk or…
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Colors
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4 min read
This is my entry for the August 2025 IndieWeb Carnival. The topic is “Colors”, and it’s hosted by Marisabel from Konfetti Explorations. Colors. An interesting, yet challenging, topic to explore. What shade lives in your bones? That’s a tough question to begin with! I don’t really know how to approach it, but a good starting…
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My own Microblogging tool
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3 min read
Or microblogging like it’s 2009! A while back, I published an article named “From Social Feeds to Personal Feeds”, where I wrote about the boredom, clutter and noise of social networks, and that I was much more into personal websites and blogs, their philosophy and mood. That being said, most of the social networks were,…
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Listening to music the 2000s way: one year later
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8 min read
Last summer, I ditched listening to music using streaming services (Spotify, then YouTube Premium) to go fully local. I wrote an detailed post to document my journey: Listening to music the 2000s way. One year later, I still listen to my music locally on my phone but made a subtle change that has made the…
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Blog questions challenge
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11 min read
Two weeks ago, I published an article that could be categorized as a “meta post”, where I answered some random questions. It was my first post of this type, and I liked writing it. As I wrote in the conclusion of that post, it’s a good and fun way to spend time writing. So here…