Articles
Long-form posts and essays. (267 total)
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Bouddhisme DalaiLama
Il y a quatre ans, presque jour pour jour, ARTE diffusait “Bouddhisme, la loi du silence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcbpwOzoejw le documentaire d’Élodie Emery et Wandrille Lanos. Un véritable ovni télévisuel, qui a pourtant failli ne jamais êtr...
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politics Trump
There are at least two obvious ways to imagine Donald Trump trying to remain president after 2028. The first is the constitutional loophole: someone close to him — perhaps one of his children — runs for president with Trump as vice president, wins, t...
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WordPress indiekit
So today it was fires both at work and privately : I successfully intercepted what appears to have been an attempt to compromise chardonsbleus.org. Two administrator accounts were created within a very short period of time. At first, I assumed the us...
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indieweb IndieAuth indiekit ai Claude comments
I’ve been rebuilding the comment system on this site with Claude Code. Visitors sign in with their own website to leave a comment — IndieAuth, the way it’s meant to work. Overnight we migrated it from IndieAuth to IndieLogin.com. At 05:40 this mornin...
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Meta Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto rests on a single elegant idea: safety comes from distributing power so no one actor can impose their will. It’s a fine principle. It’s also the exact opposite of how he has run everything he has ever touched . Start with...
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RSS RSC
Depuis vingt ans, chaque tentative de « réinventer » le web social commence par la même étape : inventer un protocole. XMPP, OStatus, ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr. À chaque fois la promesse est la même, à chaque fois le coût d’entrée est le même :...
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Canicule Climat Politique
Il y a quelque chose d’absurde dans notre manière de répondre à l’urgence climatique. À chaque nouvelle canicule, on nous parle de volets, d’isolation, de climatisation, de fontaines, de piscines publiques temporairement accessibles et de quelques ar...
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indieweb RSS opml
Most of the talk about RSS is about publishing. A feed is something your site emits: you write a post, and the feed is the machine-readable copy that goes out the door. Almost every blog does this. It is the easy half, and it has been solved for twen...
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Justice
Je pense qu’il y a quelque chose de profondément humain dans notre besoin d’expliquer les dysfonctionnements par des intentions. Lorsqu’un système échoue, lorsqu’une institution ne répond pas à sa mission, nous cherchons instinctivement un responsabl...
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Brexit Disinformation
When historians write about the decline of democratic institutions in the early twenty-first century, they may not focus on artificial intelligence, deepfakes or social media algorithms. They may focus on a bus. A red bus promised that leaving the Eu...
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plume indieweb micropub Claude
I got annoyed. Every time I wanted to bookmark a page or jot down a note, I’d open the Indiekit admin UI in a new tab, paste a URL, and click around. Small friction. But small friction repeats forever. So two days ago I started a brainstorm with Clau...
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DalaiLama TibetanBuddhism
The Dalai Lama’s message calls for peace, compassion, and dialogue. On the surface, it is hard to disagree with any of that. But there is a deeper problem in how this message is framed. By grouping together vastly different situations under the singl...
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Newsdiff RSS ActivityPub Fedify Botkit
TLDR; What it does : Polls RSS/Atom/JSON feeds, extracts article content, detects word-level changes, shows inline diffs on a web UI, posts to the fediverse (threaded AP bot) and Bluesky, generates diff card images server-side. Stack : SvelteKit + Dr...
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Cults Trump politics Netanyahou Khamenei
I was born and grew up inside an authoritarian Tibetan Buddhist hippie community that slowly revealed itself to be a cult . Why am I telling you this? Because once you have lived inside a coercive system, you begin to recognize patterns that others m...
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Eleventy performance webdev indieweb
My Eleventy site builds 3,400+ pages with data from over a dozen APIs (GitHub, Funkwhale, Last.fm, YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky, and several Indiekit endpoints). The initial build was taking 38 seconds, and incremental rebuilds — triggered by a single...
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indieweb indiekit performance coding Eleventy DevOps
Three days of performance work on the Indiekit stack — memory optimization, Core Web Vitals, and build-time improvements. This one gets technical. The Problem: OOM Kills in a 3 GB Container The site runs on Cloudron in a container with 3 GB RAM. Elev...
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indieweb indiekit coding accessibility performance micropub
A day of polish, performance, and migration cleanup across the Indiekit ecosystem. Eleventy Theme — 24 commits Design System Compliance The theme got a full design system overhaul. Every post type — articles, notes, bookmarks, photos, replies, likes,...
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indieweb indiekit coding ActivityPub Eleventy hashtags
A busy day of improvements across the Indiekit ecosystem. Here’s what changed. Eleventy Theme — 10 commits The frontend got the most attention: Blog filter navigation — the blog dropdown now shows all posts per type, not just the most recent Interact...
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indieweb ai structured-data schema.org indiekit
Every post on this site carries structured AI transparency metadata — visible both to readers (as a disclosure badge) and to machines (as Schema.org JSON-LD). Here’s how I built it, from the post editor to the structured data output. My AI Transparen...
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indieweb Blogging challenge
This challenge was initiated by Alexandra from wrywriter.ca — thanks for putting this together! Why did you make a blog in the first place? My first blog goes back to the early 2000s — it was called “Make Love Not War” and it was a space where I was...
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