Yes, I’m writing again about my ongoing experiment with blocking JavaScript on a per-site basis. This time, I’m not here to explain how I operate in detail, but to complain about the work needed to maintain this web browsing hygiene. In short, the web is a mess, and while messy things can be fun, I’ve recently grown...

I live in the Greater Strasbourg area, and nearby, 30 kilometres away or so, there is a certain small-volume car manufacturer that understood years ago, before it was cool, that touchscreens in cars tend to age poorly. I love what they do instead of putting every command behind a fancy touchscreen: they try to give...

Four days ago, on Thursday 30 April 2026, my wife Olga gave birth to a beautiful baby named Marius, and the three of us seem to be glowing with love ever since. Mother and child are both healthy, and I am as happy as I am in admiration of the work from every one involved at the hospital; midwives in particular have...

It was bound to happen. For months, I’ve done my best to prevent this, but eventually, my patience and tolerance weren’t enough. Here I am, writing a post about how I finally decided to ditch Safari as my main browser, and replace it with third-party options. This change was a slow process somehow — spanning a...

If you read this via your RSS reader, you won’t notice the tiny design refresh of the site: nothing major, just a new header, a new icon/logo, an improved HTML structure, and an overall simplification and further reduction in weight to be, you guessed it, as light as possible. I’m very pleased with the new look, and...

Zhenyi Tan, in a blog post titled Ensheinification, writes: Every time I replace something with a new thing, the new thing is worse. My mother-in-law bought a new rice cooker. It has 20 settings and none of them cook good rice. The old one had one button and made perfect rice for 10+ years. I talked to her about it....

Some time ago, I tried to use my web browser with JavaScript turned off by default. The experiment didn’t last long, and my attempt at a privacy-protecting, pain-free web experience failed. Too many websites rely on JavaScript, which made this type of web browsing rather uncomfortable. I’ve kept a Safari extension...

I promise you I try to avoid linking to more than two articles on the same topic in each edition — and I really want to avoid my readers to feel too depressed reading this blog — but everything seems to be about A.I. or some sort of automation these days, either directly or indirectly. I also notice that most of the...

As far as I can see, the majority of MacBook Neo reviews are overwhelmingly positive. Other reviews are simply acknowledging that this new laptop will be a huge success, while also recommending other laptops, including the refurbished MacBook Air. These reviews share the same overall message: the Neo, especially...

Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share the good stuff I encounter on the web. ¶ World’s largest spider web – Be warned — especially if spiders make you uncomfortable — because you won’t be able to forget this video if you decide to watch it. You’ll learn something, sure, but...

In the last couple of months, we have seen plenty of rants, reports, analysis, and other exposés about the state of Apple software, whether it is about their bad icon design, bad icon implementation, neglect, more neglect, and plain worrisome trends. The most damning thing of all? All of these complaints are valid...

My latest post mentioned how perfect my current setup seems to be. Today, a week or two later, I must admit, this post holds up pretty well. I was expecting the post (and therefore the setup) to be updated drastically the minute I published it, as it usually goes, and yet, nothing of substance has changed since. In...