nicbou

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by nicbou 10mo ago
Unfortunately, most of these platforms end up enshittifying and using your content for it. A platform that you control can be a beautiful thing.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Treat it as something you can pick from, like a pile of books, not something you have to finish, like a pile of books.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Hacker News, plus a few specific authors who link to others. Human curation is still where it’s at.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I read the post first. The website is gorgeous, but not pleasant to use on an iPad Mini. I couldn’t keep reading without reader mode. But damn, it is absolutely beautiful. The fonts and paintings, wow.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I spent most of 2025 plugging the income gap caused by LLMs feeding from my work while denying me traffic. In 2026 I want to focus on being as helpful as possible to my reduced audience. My main focus will be tenant and labour rights for im
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Not in Berlin where the culture very strongly discourages filming on the dance floor. Most clubs will kick you out if you take photos. I went one time to an event in the UK and most of the front row was people trying to get the best picture
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Time spent being human and enjoying life. I can’t point at many problems it has meaningfully solved for me. I mean real problems , not tasks that I have to do for my employer. It seems like it just made parts of my existence more miserable,
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by nicbou 10mo ago
On iOS, Adguard does a decent job. It's the only way I would ever use the internet.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Interesting! I knew that the Nazis repudiated Fraktur fonts in 1941 but I never knew the story behind it.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I thought it was a joke, then I checked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-... The quote is milder and the "woke" bit was added by others, but the context is essential
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Ah yes, the queen's duck! I've told that story countless times. I bet it's super effective here. https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/ (p.s. I don't mean to nitpick over a perfectly clear me
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Although Germans are famously methodical, my experience with German bureaucracy was that it's quite flexible. They will break you, and when you finally give up and seem like you're about to cry, they will roll their eyes, and obli
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by nicbou 10mo ago
It’s almost impossible to browse twitter without an account anymore. If you get a direct link to a tweet you can see it, but every click will prompt you to log in. Same for other platforms.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I would stick to a daily note because you lose a lot of granularity after a week. With journaling at least, I rarely remember how I felt even 24 hours ago.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
You have missed a good opportunity to be curious, rather than judgmental. Mind the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Sometimes, it takes some effort to get to the rewarding part of an activity.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
How do you contend with the fact that AI summaries are now halving traffic to people's websites and redirecting it to Google properties? Publishing in 2025 feels like merely feeding two or three megacorps.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
UnTrap for iOS works practically the same.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I did the same. Unhooked for desktop and UnTrap for iOS. No suggestions, no shorts, and no comments. Just the videos from creators I subscribed to.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
These changes are wrecking the independent web. It's crazy that people don't see LLMs as the monopolistic land grab that they are.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
LLMs are a new phase of this. This time, I think it will truly kill the open web and reroute all traffic to two or three websites.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
That's the idea. If you're like most people, you are going to work for a long time still, so you might as well look for enjoyable work. You might not find a perfect job, but at least something that you can tolerate for a long time
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Yes, but let's not nitpick our way out of understanding the point. Don't be afraid to soil a notebook with bad drawings, and waste as much paper as it takes. Mistakes are part of the process, not something to avoid.
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I have the same setup and I like it, but traditional media is just much more pleasant. In any case, practice. Keep drawing, and try drawing the same thing multiple times. Don't just start over, fix your mistakes. Step back and take tim
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I was in the same boat and started drawing again at around 30. Remember that paper is cheap and that experimentation is valuable. Make all the bad art you can. The cost of all the paper I wasted in the last 5 years is probably less than the
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by nicbou 10mo ago
What does this mean?
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I am your age. If all goes perfectly well, we're 30 years from retirement. That's a long time doing something you dislike for 40 hours per week. Realistically, most people don't get to work on meaningful cutting-edge projects
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by nicbou 10mo ago
I run a website that helps people settle in Berlin. It's been my full-time job for a few years now, although AI is slowly killing websites like mine now. https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Perhaps it's a bit like people preferring snacking to a home-cooked meal. At the end of a long day it's nice to be effortlessly entertained, but you can't have just bite-sized experiences. At some point you need to go deepe
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by nicbou 10mo ago
In Quebec we have a sort of college between high school and university where you are forced to take "bullshit classes" along with the stuff you chose to study. Mine included philosophy, Spanish, photography, canoeing, and a few ot
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by nicbou 11mo ago
It was mostly to fit my travel habits, but you might be right. Nowadays I work at a cafe with friends every Monday. It's a nice break from WFH.

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