• Quarantine in Japan - Day 7

    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...
  • Quarantine in Japan - Day 6

    Hello everyone! Another great morning view Not much going on today, no tests, same kind of food. Good news is that I might be able to leave the hotel quarantine tomorrow if this last test is negative. After that a 6 days quarantine at home will pursue besides 4 negative...

    Read More...
  • Quarantine in Japan - Day 5

    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...
  • Quarantine in Japan - Day 4

    Morning! Got some tubes for the saliva test this morning. After the result, we are still negative. I see the bright light at the end of the tunnel to get out on Jan 5. Catering hotel food is still atrocious. But in-laws kindly brought us some delicious food directly to...

    Read More...
  • Quarantine in Japan - Day 3

    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...
  • Quarantine in Japan - Day 2

    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...
  • Quarantine in Japan - Day 1

    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...
  • Limits of Jekyll categories and i18n

    Before reading: This article deals with categories page generation by language using Jekyll and the problems I personally have to implement it. This article don’t list the limits of Jekyll in a general point of view. As you maybe noticed, I have been using Jekyll to build this website from...

    Read More...
  • Google Hangouts Chat first review (after one week)

    The story started when Microsoft has acquired Skype in 2011. Technically speaking I’ve nothing against Skype, however Microsoft has made some « bad choices » — in my opinion. I was happy and satisfied with Skype until Microsoft decided to kill P2P support from it. Maybe they did that due to performance...

    Read More...
  • Sublime Text 3 & plugins I'm using

    I discovered ST few years ago long before Atom, Brackets and Microsoft Visual Code. I was looking for a “more graphical” alternative to VIM and ST seemed to be the best match for me at this time. If you have used VIM quite a bit you should know about the...

    Read More...
  • 日本語で電子メール入力を効率アップ

    毎朝、出勤してから同じルチーン: コーヒー、メールチェックとメール返信。 WindowsとIMEのおかげで、毎日のビジネスメールで時間節約できる方法を紹介したいと思います(チャットでも使える)。 メールのテンプレート使う人はたくさんいると思いますが、回答によってバリエーションがたまに必要になります。例えば下記に:

    Read More...
  • Happy New Year 2018

    That’s it, 2018. Thank you all for your support last year.  あけましておめでとうございます! In a tech point of view my 2017 in few words would be: JS (mainly front-end frameworks) Crypto-currencies Blockchain AI systems Chatbots IoT Progressive Web Apps Serverless And not enough time… 1) Well, write more blog posts I...

    Read More...
  • Osaka Motor Show 2017

    Hey everyone! I’ve been to Osaka Motor Show 2017 at INTEX Osaka. It’s the 10th edition and 300,000 visitors are expected to come. I personally discovered the event this year, it’s never too late! (I’m so bad to find events…) First thing, I didn’t find any price indicated on their...

    Read More...
  • Vietnam (2017)

    I finally ended editing the footage I took during my trip in Vietnam 3 months after. Quite busy on these days on different projects I’ll share you later =) Also I’ll spare you all the difficulties I had in obtaining an international driving license in Japan. It was sincerely a...

    Read More...
  • Transfer music to a Sony Walkman (NW-E405) with Windows 10

    I still use my old Sony Walkman (NW-E405) that I bring to the gym. I don’t want to explode my brand new stuff with some dumbells or whatever. So, here is the beast: I almost never used Sony’s software like Sonic Stage or Sony CONNECT, they were way to complicated...

    Read More...
  • Alpes d'Huez (2017)

    Here we go for a new snowboarding season. Since I’m in Japan, I don’t often have the occasion to ride a board but it’s always a pleasure even after a long period of inactivity. Alpes d’Huez is located here: The video below is a compilation of those two days spent...

    Read More...
  • Thailand (2016)

    Hi, everyone! I am back from Thailand where I spent over 2 weeks in 4 different locations: Just before going to Thailand I bought a GoPro HERO 4 Silver. Provided GoPro case is waterproof until 40m which is enough for me. Thailand is a tropical environment so you don’t need...

    Read More...