nicbou

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by nicbou 10mo ago
You can apply software development skills to public good. It's just not the most common path, nor the best-paid one. I should also highlight that SWE has one of the most prolific gift economies out there. The author also forgot another
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I have been a fan of your site for a while. I loved all of your posts and brought you up in conversation sometimes. I also use your list of online galleries all the time. Keep up the good work.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
https://nicolasbouliane.com My home on the web, and a gentle introduction to topics I get really excited about if you put 3 pints in me.
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The channel Machine Thinking has many videos about screws, and about the early days of machines and precision. In Europe we have standard screws. Building with only M5 screws is a joy.
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In French, there is babord and tribord. The mnemonic is ba-tri, or “battery”.
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That’s fun! The distribution points are too far from me, and getting the free potatoes would be completely impractical, but I am sure some people will benefit.
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This is Germany. We might also need mayo, depending on preference.
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Those are mandatory in Germany. Recently-ish they started forcing supermarkets and other large retailers to accept small electronics, but in practice I never managed to do it. You pretty much have to argue with the staff every time. https:
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Then they use the data to deny you traffic. AI summaries are wrecking the independent web. Losing more than half or more of your traffic was pretty common in 2025. It’s killing the economics of sharing hard-earned information. So we are spe
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I use Lunr on allaboutberlin.com. It's simple and effective, but searching the whole content would have required loading more files than I was comfortable with. Therefore it only searches titles and descriptions. There are probably wor
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You could turn around and sell it for $30k. That's the rule of thumb for selling a profitable website, I keep reading. This would make a young developer really happy, I bet. Alternatively you can pay someone to rebuild it properly. It
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It also seems to suck life out of communities, kills the open internet, and enables grift at an unprecedented scale.
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When talking about ADHD medication, a doctor asked me why someone would choose not to wear glasses if they could see well with them. There are some flaws with this argument, but I keep it in mind when I feel like others are "cheating&q
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by nicbou 10mo ago
This seems a lot better, thanks for the suggestion.
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As a solo person running a website: Accounting and invoicing. Even for a tiny outfit with quarterly invoicing, it's tedious.
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How much work is it to maintain an Immich instance? I'm trying to keep my digital setup lean, but I can't find a simple way to get photos off my iPhone and onto my home server. One way synchronization is my only goal. Extra featur
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I have a growing social media presence. It makes it much easier to bring awareness to my work or poll people. Every post is a new conversation. I have met a lot of people that way. This includes a few friends, a partner and many business op
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by nicbou 10mo ago
This is not a service I would use for free. If I want to connect with someone I shoot then a message on LinkedIn.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
It's still one's duty to refuse an immoral order. The Allies convicted Nazis on that basis at Nuremberg, and "just following orders" was famously invalidated there.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I haven't upgraded to Tahoe yet, but overall MacOS is still solid. It has lots of quirks that would benefit from a quality of life release, but generally the OS gets out of the way and the hardware is solid. I could not say the same ab
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Dunking on people like that is mean
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These made my day and I barely understand Spanish
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I had a Renault Kangoo and was similarly militant about its supremacy. It was a cheap, reliable thing and people carrier. It could fit five people, or two people, two bicycles and plenty of camping gear. It was cheap and ugly enough to shru
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I have been thinking about your comment a lot today and yesterday. Thanks for sharing. At the exact same time last year I went on a short trip without a phone. I was forced to talk to people and it was a good exercise, even though I wasn’t
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Does anyone else feel a sort of anxiety in those situations? I've been on such trips and I would rather not sleep at all than ask a stranger for help. When I'm in a position to help, I am delighted to do so, but also scared of off
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I agree, but then again didn’t we have the same debate about violent video games? I don’t know why I am okay with simulated violence but repulsed by simulated sexuality.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
A woman posts on twitter. In the replies, people ask Grok to remove her clothes. Deepfakes are proliferating, sometimes out of personal interest, sometimes as a form of bullying. Fake images can and do hurt real people. There is also a grea
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I know that this sort of behaviour is normal and rewarded online, but damn. http://www.albion.com/netiquette/rule1.html
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Service guarantees citizenship!
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So I really hate ads and either block them or avoid the product altogether. My tolerance is very close to zero. But is it the government's job to regulate good user experience? Are unskippable ads a social problem that must be regulate

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