Articles

Long-form posts and essays. (238 total)

  • Hacking on Indiekit to customize my blog

    Lately, I have been investing a significant part of my free time into extending my Indiekit fork with features I personally needed. What started as a few tweaks progressively evolved into a broader effort to rethink parts of the backend UI and to bui...

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  • How to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker Compose

    FeedLand is an open-source feed reader and sharing platform created by Dave Winer, the pioneer behind RSS itself. It describes itself as “an ecosystem of feeds, news and people” — a place to subscribe to RSS feeds, organize them, discover what others...

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  • Religion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidental

    TL;DR : En Occident, le bouddhisme tibétain bénéficie d’une image d’exception morale, perçu comme la “dernière religion pacifique”. Cette idéalisation rend toute critique suspecte et toute parole de victime inconfortable. Pourtant, comme toute tradit...

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  • Deploying Your Own IndieWeb Site with Indiekit + Eleventy (Docker Compose based)

    A complete guide to deploying Indiekit on your own server using Docker Compose. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a fully functional IndieWeb blog with automatic HTTPS, Micropub support, syndication to Mastodon and Bluesky, and a static Eleventy-...

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  • The Guru Wears Prada - Sofia May on Surviving Tibetan Buddhism at Tara Mandala

    Recently, a survivor of abuse within Tibetan Buddhism was featured on A Little Bit Culty, the podcast hosted by former NXIVM whistleblowers. In this episode, she speaks openly about her experience of abuse at the hands of Lama Tsultrim at Tara Mandal...

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  • Deploying Funkwhale v2: From Bare Metal to Cloudron

    Funkwhale is a self-hosted, federated music streaming platform — think of it as a decentralized alternative to Spotify where you own your music, your data, and your social connections through ActivityPub. After running Funkwhale 1.4.0 for over a year...

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  • Je collectionne des flux RSS et toi ?

    Je n’ai jamais vraiment été collectionneur de quoi que ce soit. Peut être de musique pendant un temps, à l’époque du MP3, il y a une vingtaine d’années. En dehors de cela, il n’y a jamais eu quelque chose pour laquelle je me sentais assez passionné p...

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  • When the Law Becomes a Weapon

    ICE, Trump, and the Politics of Exclusion A recent CNN poll asked a deceptively simple question: Should ICE deport people who entered the United States illegally but who now work, pay taxes, and have acquired legal documentation? Presented this way,...

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  • My App Defaults

    📬 Mail Client: FairEmail, ProtonMail 📮 Mail Server: Cloudron 🗒️ Notes: Obsidian ✅ To-Do: Nextcloud 🌅 Photo Management: Immich 📆 Calendar: Nextcloud 📦 Cloud File Storage: Nextcloud 📖 RSS: FreshRSS, Indiepass 🌐 Browser: Vivaldi, Firefox 🕵🏻 Se...

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  • Deploy Your Own IndieWeb Site on Cloudron with Indiekit

    What You’ll Build By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have: A personal website at your own domain The ability to post from any Micropub client (Quill, Indiepass, iA Writer) Automatic syndication to Mastodon and Bluesky Webmentions showing likes, repl...

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  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Speech in Davos

    I don’t often or ever share on my blog Political Speeches from anyone but we’re in dark times and there is more darkness ahead so perhaps this lightning of lucidity can help : Here is the full text of that speech. I urge you to read it in its entiret...

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  • Claude Code Journey

    I have been using Claude Code for a few months now, first on small personal code bases that urgently needed refactoring and then professionally on small internal tools then bigger code bases that are actually in production but are legacy code that ha...

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  • Upgrading Funkwhale from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on Debian

    After running Funkwhale 1.4.0 for a while, I decided to upgrade to the 2.0.0-rc5 release candidate. This post documents the full upgrade process on a Debian 12 (bookworm) server, including the issues I encountered and how to resolve them. What’s New...

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  • Can you even imagine, if #Carlin was still alive, under #Trump ?

    it wouldn’t be roasting, perhaps Trump wouldn’t even be elected in the first place. I feel like even the best comedians, commentators and opinionated individuals out there, all those not losing their north star, would greatly appreciate it if anythin...

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  • [Link] The Chinese Firewall Technology That Every Western Company Now Uses“

    “A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that th...

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  • Le comble de notre époque c'est le mirage de l'immigration

    Le comble de notre époque : après des décennies de perte de souveraineté économique, financière et technologique, l’Europe, les États-Unis et d’autres puissances prétendent la « récupérer » en fermant leurs frontières. Mais pas aux marchandises, pas...

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  • La Belgique doit agir pour ne pas laisser brûler les droits des femmes

    Aux États-Unis, l’administration Trump a marqué un tournant idéologique majeur. Sous couvert de réformes et de moralité, elle a mené une véritable offensive contre l’autonomie des femmes: remise en cause du droit à l’avortement, pressions sur les fin...

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  • From Distrust to Retribution: America’s Escalating Spiral

    The core problem in the 🇺🇸 right now is trust in information, democracy, institutions. Whatever is put forward, whether a “manifesto,” “killer’s note,” or shooting suspect’s story, no matter what the authorities claim, the public has come to believ...

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  • Face aux horreurs du monde, tenir debout

    Avec toute l’horreur qui se déroule sous nos yeux éblouis par la lumière bleue de nos écrans, j’ai parfois l’impression que le 11 septembre n’a plus aucune importance. Comme si, face au génocide à Gaza, à la guerre perpétuelle en Ukraine et aux confl...

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  • Mon essence est façonnée par la survie, mais aussi par le refus de laisser la survie être la seule histoire

    Si je devais me présenter sans ces repères familiers, je dirais que ma vie a été un long apprentissage de la résilience. J’ai été mis à l’épreuve tôt et souvent, et ce qui demeure en moi, c’est la volonté de continuer à avancer, même quand le chemin...

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