The Analogue Technologist

Warning, retrospectively-looking, this is a rather scorn-loaded post, please read with a big spoon of salt. I've been reflecting about this topic for months now: where is social media headed at in 2025? I will not cover Mastodon here for a variety of reasons, including the niche nature

I regularly crave to get entirely rid of my iPhone and move to one of those e-paper devices / minimalist phones. Why? Lately, I’ve found myself once again facing the unpleasant realization that I'm wasting time that could be spent in a better way. I already had implemented

This morning, I routinely fired up LinkedIn and came across an interesting post from former GigaOm colleague and industry peer Howard Holton, who is sharing a compilation of 50 most useful GPT prompts that he uses and curates on his GitHub page. Howard Holton on LinkedIn: I've

Preamble: This post was dictated to ChatGPT, and is an accurate reflection / transcription of my thoughts. I didn’t have time to write it out myself since I’m getting ready for a hike, but I wanted to share it with you. Today, I stumbled upon a LinkedIn post that

I recently came across a mention about FLUX.1-schnell on social media. I can't remember the source (apologies), but in any case, according to Hugging Face, FLUX.1-schnell (which I will refer from now on as Flux Schnell) is "a 12 billion parameter rectified flow transformer capable

After more than two years, a currently 800-day streak in learning Chinese, and having learned enough to comfortably pass the Chinese HSK1 test (and preparing for HSK2 this autumn), I've decided to part ways with Duolingo. Financial Hygiene One of the first reasons for that is that I&

I am a person that spends way too much time on LinkedIn due to a conjunction of circumstances: I left Facebook back in 2018, I never really returned to Twitter after deleting and re-creating my account there, and also because LinkedIn is a kind of hub where I post work-related

This post is about personal online services we use in our everyday lives. Looking at those expenses isn't a new thing for me, but I do not recall handling this in a systematic manner until today. By systematic, I mean having a comprehensive tracker which exhaustively lists every

This morning (Monday, May 27th 2024) I came across a LinkedIn post celebrating an "uncontestable consecration for France" celebrating consecutive investments from Amazon and Microsoft. Joachim SAVIGNY on LinkedIn: 🔵⚪🔴 2e Consécration incontestable pour la France en 24h ! Après Amazon… | 61 comments🔵⚪🔴 2e Consécration incontestable pour la France en

An interesting aspect of human societies is the very large gamut of opinions, often irreconciliable. Even when keeping politics and faith controversies at large, people will love to die on any given hill for their sacrosanct causes. An enduring post-COVID controversy is the return to hybrid or in-office work. This