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Read More...If you use WSL a lot, you might have noticed something annoying where the disk space never seems to come back. You clean up a bunch of Docker images, delete a huge node_modules folder or drop some big datasets… and yet your drive is still just as full as before....
Read More...Ok, I’m definitely late to the trend, but I finally dipped my toes into the whole vibe coding hype… 😅 I gave myself just a few hours (while half-distracted with other stuff) to prompt my way through building FrenchPing, a tiny game to practice French, wrapped in the Teenieping universe....
Read More...Before taking any action, quit the Logitech G HUB application. Go to %ProgramFiles%/LGHUB/data Backup applications.json file (i.e. rename applications.json to applications.json.bk) Open applications.json with your favorite text editor Replace the whole file with: { "applications": [] } Save the file (applications.json) You can revert this change back at any time...
Read More...Usually git repositories start small but they grow fast and ultimately you end up with a looottt of commits after a few years… It can be challenging and time consuming to pull such big repositories so let me give you a quick tip if you don’t want to pull the...
Read More...I had a bit of struggle to disable OpenVPN from launching automatically at boot on macOS. It doesn’t seem to have any option / checkbox in the softwareto disable launch at boot, so here what I did: 1) Unload OpenVPN daemon using launchctl: sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.openvpn.plist 2) Remove OpenVPN...
Read More...This logo is property of Habitica I’ve been using many apps for managing my todos in the past, here a few ones: jrnl Trello Google Todo List A simple txt file / Google Doc That said, todo-lists can get pretty boring over time but I found Habitica at some point....
Read More...And here we are! Possibly the final day at the hotel. 7 o’clock sharp, I spit in the tube and hang it in a cup at the front door, as requested. Final saliva test in prep It’s time to start packing the suitcases. At the same time, I’m imagining being...
Read More...Hello world! Hotel view I couldn’t sleep until 5am this morning - damn jet lag. That said, I finished to watch Money Heist - Season 5. Around lunch time, I got another video call from the MySOS app and got a screenshot of it. This is what you can expect...
Read More...Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to the first 2022 day. Not a suprise, I’m still at the hotel with family. Today, I definitely feel the jet lag more. Looking at the schedule provided when we started the quarantine, seems like not much will happen today. However we can expect a...
Read More...7:00 am - my eyes opened. Jet lag is not that bad for once. Checking my phone, still no call or notifications from the MySOS app. Breakfast was laying on a chair at the front door. Luckily, we brought some coffee and filters with a dripper in the suitcase. Breakfast...
Read More...Just landed to KIX today, exhausted. What a crazy journey. After 2 months in France to spend the winter holiday season, I’m here now, in a roughly 20 meter square hotel room for 6 days with the whole family without the possibility to make a step beyond the door landing....
Read More...Note: I also have a post explaining how I customized my keyboard with Karabiner for a smooth Linux -> Mac transition. Link: https://www.alfredapp.com/ Well known macOS app that allows quick search and easy hotkeys setup on your Mac. An handy app to customize the way you start your applications or...
Read More...When using ZSH with oh-my-zsh and iTerm, I noticed some URLs or strings I pasted in were escaped with a \ on special characters. I wasn’t sure if it was an iTerm or a feature tied to oh-my-zsh but adding: DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS=true to my .zshrc and then source the file again...
Read More...I very often need to test new Elastic products with different versions. Downloading the distributions everytime then configure manually every part could be cumbersome and quite repetitive. Of course, pulling docker images or use Terraform are viable options, but sometimes you might be looking for a quick setup. For this...
Read More...Je m’en souviens encore comme si c’était hier, tout a commencé lors de mes 8 ans lorsque mes parents se sont procurés un Pentium II MMX 233Mhz. C’était un Cibox avec exactement le même boitier que dans la fameuse pub de l’époque (malheureusement je ne suis plus sûr du modèle):...
Read More...I noticed for a while that one of my Windows rigs had some insomnia issues – Windows waking up in the middle of the night. There is a few things that you need to check to find the culprit. Start by launching a “Command Prompt” ( ⊞ Win + R...
Read More...Starting from Season 3 - Domination, this fix won’t work anymore as dsound.dll will prevent you to play online (leading to a message: Wrong game version and disconnect you from the game). Recently I started to play Project Diablo 2 and started to get the following error while closing the...
Read More...apt just got broken on my WSL installation. I didn’t dig through much, but it started once I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04. Here the error I’m getting when trying to install new packages: apt: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-private.so.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory...
Read More...Update March 22, 2020: I saw that the following command could help in some cases: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.airport.bt.plist bluetoothCoexMgmt Hybrid (Explanation on Stackoverflow) I thought I was done with this from my previous post about it. However it didn’t last long and the problem re-appeared later. It was not...
Read More...There is a big misconception between distributed and decentralized blockchains in the crypto landscape. Distributed blockchains are not necessarily decentralized by nature. Decentralization imply the blockchain to not be owned by the same entity. Decentralization which has for objective censorship resistance is the essence of why crypto-currencies have been started...
Read More...I’ve bought the Sony headset WH-1000XM2 a while back ago now and I have been super happy with it. This was until recently before I started to use it with my Macbook Pro ( 2018, 13-inch, with Touch Bar). I notice some frequent WiFi disconnects and disturbance with the signal...
Read More...Far from being an expert in security but I’ve been more and more interested in CTFs challenges on my free time. It’s a good cut-off from my daylight work and also a good alternative to programming and I really enjoy this new hobby. Also, Google is launching new CTF quals...
Read More...With the latest Google Chrome updates, if you use macOS dark theme, Google Chrome will switch in dark mode as well by default. Usually I love dark themes for everything, but I’m not a fan of of the dark theme for Chrome provided by Google — I dunno why, maybe...
Read More...As explained in this previous article, I switched from a Linux workstation to a Macbook for work and re-done some parts of the keyboard mapping to match what I’ve been used to during the past decade on Windows/Linux. Please check out the article if you are looking into a PC...
Read More...© Shadow by Blade C’est un article que je tenais à faire depuis un moment malheureusement par manque de temps je n’ai pas pu le rédiger plus tôt. Je suis rentré en France dernièrement pour une durée de trois semaines environ. Généralement, j’emmène toujours un laptop avec moi quand je...
Read More...I’ve been using Windows Subsystem for Linux for quite a long now. What is Windows Subsystem for Linux? It’s basically to run a Linux environment in Windows OS Even if it wasn’t really stable at the beginning, a lot of improvements have been made. At work I have quite a...
Read More...金曜日午後６時半 — 仕事で物事を包み込んで、出ていく時間だ。なぜか今日、日本語で感想を書こうと思っている。 本日の夜、ジェイソンに会うつもり、ジェイソンはその人の本名ちゃうけど、とにかく、ジェイソンでいいやろ。 ジェーソンはまだ会ったことない、実際は友達から紹介してもらった。
Read More...Here is a modest list of the fonts I have been using along my 15 years of coding/programming. If you read those lines, I assume you are looking for a good font which is pleasant to code with, easy to read with distinct characters (ex: O / 0 or l...
Read More...Le premier photographe que je voudrais vous présenter s’appelle Tatsuo Suzuki, photographe japonais né à Tokyo. Il a commencé la photographie en 2008, son thème est : « les rues de Tokyo ». Le noir & blanc, l’émotion à travers le visage des gens, c’est ce qui rend de mon point de...
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