Urban commute
Catching the train to work after a fabulous evening at Montreux (I left my bike at the studio).
Raye’s vibes and energy still resonate this morning, soothing my late night and early rise.
Recent Logs
Well, they might not be all that recent. You'll find the older entries in the archives.
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Earlier this year, I finally added a proper theme switch to this website. Up until then, if relied on the system’s setting
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We watched the movie Blackberry over the weekend, and I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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In terms of tech gear, I travelled light this time. No tech pouch full of cables, adapters and chargers.
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It’s good to be back in Paros for a couple of weeks.
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My faithful iPad Pro’s dwindling battery life gave me an excuse to order an iPad Pro 11” (M4)] last week.
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→ I love every detail of this commercial. The colours, the framing, the rhythm, the dialogs. A beauty.
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My latest iTunes purchases have been less than sub par. Since iTunes movie Store moved to the (Apple) TV app, the navigation has become worse. Considering it was already bad (in Switzerland) it’s not encouraging.
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The Ask ATP segment of episode 583 on case-sensitive file systems reminded me of how legacy characteristics can sometime live on forever.
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Following in the footsteps of CSS Naked Day, JS Naked Day will take place on April 24th. Show how the web works without JavaScript.
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I love this blog post, discovered through my RSS feed on zeldman.com.
Recent Links
I've been using Pinboard (and del.icio.us before that) on and off to save my links ever since 2005. Here are the latest links I saved. You'll find all the others on Pinboard.
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The entire point of publishing on the open Web is to make the content available to everyone. If you want to restrict who can read your content or how they can use it, you put it behind a paywall.
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The tale of restoring an ’80s timeless classic, harking back to an era when 128KB were deemed more than sufficient.
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Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL.
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Ten principles of good design
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A breathtaking article on the fragility (and resilience) of the skinny tubes crisscrossing the Earth’s oceans… and the decreasing number of people who know (and can) repair them.
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The story of the most elaborate April fool’s joke ever printed
Paros
Back in my favourite island of the Cyclades. It was lovely to catch-up with Ioanna and Panos and to revisit our favourite restaurants. The weather and water were fabulous.