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I speak perfect english in my dreams

I’ve always been impressed by my level of English in my dreams. And I’m French, French people are bad at foreign languages. I used to think that if I could speak it so well without searching for words as I did in real life, then deep down in my brain I had everything I needed to be an excellent English speaker!

Jogging, Centipede RTK rover & OpenStreetMap

I’m running (jogging?) downtown two or three times a week. And I’m an OpenStretMap contributor. And I own a RTK rover. You see where I’m going here.

IBM Model M keyboard bolt-mod, USB & QMK

In the nineties I bought an IBM PC-XT from a classmate. 200 Francs, about 45 € or $ from 2022, for a pretty nice looking computer with his green CRT and 102 keys ISO AZERTY keyboard. I didn’t know what to do with this system and I barely started it every 10 years thinking that one day it will be useful.

Dan Mace's videos are staged but who cares?

Dan Mace is one of my favourites youtubers. I love EVERYTHING in his videos. Everything. And I am always amazed about how he puts his ideas into stories.

RTKbrique: RTK Rover on Centipède network

A cheap device to geolocate at the centimeter level.

Cap d'Agde

To try the conversion of my car I did a small tour in the south of France and spent two nights at Cap d’Agde, a big seaside summer city. I have been vacationing in this place with my family since the end of the 70’s until the 90’s.

Timelapse box

I enjoy landscape timelapses, I can watch them for a long time on the web.

Ghost & SQLite on FreeBSD

I had a little trouble installing Ghost with the SQLite3 backend on FreeBSD. The problem is that there is no precompiled version of node-sqlite3 for FreeBSD and it requires a slight adaptation of the installation process.

Ghost, GoatCounter & Nginx

I used Matomo for many years as an analytics platform for my websites. two problems here: I am not fond of MySQL/MariaDB (I’m most of a PostgreSQL fan) and Matomo is overkill for my usage. Time to move to GoatCounter!

Isso & FreeBSD rc.d

I am using Isso as a lightweight commenting system for a few websites hosted on my FreeBSD server, and until recently I was using supervisor to daemonize and control the instances. But why using a third party process control system (event if it is does a great job) if we can do it with FreeBSD native mechanisms ?