Going through a long down phase that will one day end. Living it definitely feels like going through the winter throat. Enjoying my beautiful new life in Berlin, all the inspiration it brings me, and all the renewal it allows me. Really loving my new interests in birdwatching and fungi, they really help me connect with nature on a daily basis, and anchor me in the good things to save. Perhaps I...

After playing Lunacid I was looking for more retro horror dungeon crawlers, but I couldn't find anything that really went all in on it. But now Labyrinth of the Demon King is out and HOLY SHIT does it hit the mark. It's described as Silent Hill x Kings Field and I feel it fits well. You have to accept the retro wrapping of it but god damn the horror is on point, the environments and sounds conjure...

At madewithlove like at other tech oriented companies, we try to stay in the loop of AI because we see it change the world around us, and our work in particular. We dissect it, we try it, we comment, we debate. I’ve been very optimistic and hyped in the past, down to training my own models and following new papers as they come. But then so much happened since, that I’m left wondering how much of...

I’ve been talking about Germany/Berlin a lot and I tried to keep people sorta in the loop, but things have moved fast 😅. For context my wife and I have been together 13 years and we moved quite a lot within France as our situation and needs changed, as well as ourselves. We tried to be more isolated for a while since life in cities had alienated us, and we needed peace and quiet for our growing...

It all started with one picture: an almost normal painting of a village. Encoded within was a spiral shape, only visible through the specific arrangement of subjects and colors on the painting. The effect itself was nothing quite new, in fact it was a trend for a long while and you can find a lot of classical paintings that have the same concept, like this famous one from 1892 by Charles Allan...

The era of social networks I consider myself a child of the internet, in that I discovered it towards the end of my childhood and spent most of my time there during my formative years instead of, you know, outside. Moving from AIM, to forums and IRC – where I met my wife And then later on as the era of social networks arrived, to Facebook, Twitter and Reddit yes I skipped a few. Since it began,...

I’ve recently worked on a Vue application after working for a long time with React, and more particularly with React and Typescript. While I felt right at home in Vue 3’s Composition API given how similar it feels to React Hooks, I did miss the ability to easily use Typescript purely for props validation... or so I thought. Options API versus Composition API Now I’ve known for quite some time that...

Over my career I've dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the back-end and front-end. I've tried various frameworks, experimented with different approaches, types of tests and philosophies, from unit tests to Gherkin behaviour tests to E2E tests with Selenium in the good ol days. And yet despite all this I don't consider myself good at testing, because I can be very lazy and that I tend to...

In the last article, I left things off at this image and said that the next thing I wanted to learn was to make a neural network recognize the digits in this picture. It's a very well-known problem, and there's countless content written about it and this particular set of digits, but that's what makes it a good first problem to tackle, and a good way to learn neural networks. So how do we get...

I've always been fascinated by science fiction and the advances of technology. And AI/ML has often represented a huge chunk of that because to me it's the closest way that I, as a single person, can create life and feel like a god. And that's really what most of science fiction is about 🤖 I've tried a couple of times to get into it, I read things here and there, watched talks, but none of my...

Rationale When working in a React application, one pain point that often comes up is Redux. People say that as soon as an application uses it, things quickly get overrun with boilerplate and "wiring" code that ultimately clogs your codebase more than it helps it. This isn't something inherent to Redux but more something to do with the best practices associated with it, and with people...

While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots used in visual regression testing, it's clear that the introduction of textual snapshots in Jest a few years ago had a big impact on testing, not only in Javascript but in other languages as well. But looking back on what it brought me a few years later I feel rather failed by snapshots. And while most of the...

Hello everyone By now I think a lot of you might have noticed something was different with me lately, and I've been meaning to approach the subject but it's taken me a while to get the courage to pull the trigger. I've struggled a bit throughout my life with my image, my esteem and my identity. This has manifested in quite a lot of ways over the years yes including the hair but it took me until...

Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has become a lot like tinkering with building blocks: piecing together packages, APIs, services and so on. Each doing what they do best. We've learned that reinventing the wheel is often not the solution and by embracing interoperability we've...

It's safe to say programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet's beginnings. If you've ever created a Frontpage website or battled with Dreamweaver and Flash applications you know we've traveled a long way to get where we are now, and all along this way great strides were made to improve how we work. We got better languages, better tools around them, better...

Rewatching all of Scrubs, is JD the Ross of Scrubs? You know when you watch FRIENDS again with fond memories and you realize how cringe/nope some things could be in it, like how Ross is actually a gigantic douchebag. I'm rewatching Scrubs with my SO at the moment and oh boy, am I crazy or is JD just a tremendous piece of shit? I'll give it to him, more often than not he knows what the right choice...

If you’ve ever worked with Redux – in the context of a React application or not – you may have heard numerous times that it was inspired not only by Flux which it followed but also by the Elm architecture. This is something that is thrown around a lot by people in the React ecosystem, and looking at the Elm homepage it may seem difficult to see the link between a strictly-typed language and a JS...

If you’re a developer, odds are most of what you’re looking all day is text and code. Whether it’s in a terminal, editor or webpage, you look at text, it’s our main medium of work. So to make life more bearable and to ease things up for ourselves, we made color schemes to brighten up our lives. Colors made it easier for us to parse code because suddenly things weren’t a uniform blob of nonsense....

What's up with Chrome? Recently Google has been in the headlines a lot due to an upcoming change affecting Chrome, which you can read about a bit more over here but the gist of it is the following: The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with another designed to “diminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking...

Why immutability? When working on a React application that needs to handle state, one of the main pitfalls to watch out for is accidental mutations. Which is fancy talk for mistakenly modifying stuff you didn't want to change: let user = { name: "foo" }; let updated = user; updated.name = "bar"; updated.name; // "bar" user.name; // "bar" In this case,...

What is Prettier? Originally from the Javascript ecosystem, if you're not familiar with it Prettier is a code formatter, which means it takes your code, and makes it as its namme indicates prettier. There are a lot of code formatters, and for a lot of languages – even Javascript has quite a few of them. But Prettier is currently one of the most popular code formatters out there and it has spread...

I like to think I'm a rather organised person. Not in every aspect of my life and not to the same extent in each, but I try my best to keep my thoughts in line. The problem with this, unfortunately, is that there is such a thing as counterproductive organisation. That is, the moment you're organised in such a fractured and unreliable way, that it becomes harmful to your end goal. It doesn't...

As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy or asynchronous tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntlfork which had its own issues, and you couldn’t really handle the results of those tasks properly, etc. As such, a habit has kind of developed where we go straight for more intricate...

If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways to ease the pain a little: debug bars, putting timers a bit everywhere. Or if you’re courageous like I was for a long time, you use xdebug snapshots which requires you to configure it, and then parsing the snapshots which takes a long time, etc....

By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack. If you haven’t looked that much into it you’re probably a bit confused by some people calling it a build tool à la Gulp and other people calling it a bundler like Browserify. If on the other hand you have looked into it you’re probably still confused because the homepage presents Webpack as both. To be honest, at...

Space Engiquoi Space Engineers est un jeu de sandbox/survie crée par Keen Software. C’était à la base purement un jeu sandbox de création de vaisseaux et de stations, mais contrairement à énormément de jeux du genre, tout est misé sur un moteur réaliste très proche de l’Unreal Engine basé sur les voxels qui permet d’avoir d’énormes vaisseaux réalistes capable de se détruire et endommager. À cela...

In my branch there are a lot of things that make it possible to distinguish someone who does his job well from someone who doesn’t. Compliance with norms and standards, the reusability of the code, the consideration of accessibility, and so on. But above all, it is the willingness and ability to update oneself. It is this quality that makes people who are considered very good in their field...

I have to admit to a rather superficial habit - and perhaps shared by others in my profession - when I start talking to someone who does my job, the first thing I do is click on the link to their site. I look at the sources, and from there criticism comes quickly. It’s not logical I admit it because even if I try to follow very well all the good codes and practices in terms of webdesign, I don’t...

Dans la vaste école des frameworks web, de langage en langage le paysage est bien différent. Là où les développeurs Ruby et Python ont su se mobiliser pour une même cause autour des piliers que sont désormais Rails et Django, il faut bien avouer que du côté du PHP ressort un certain côté cours de récré. Des frameworks à la pelle, chacun dérivés de X ou Y, pas un pour s’entendre sur des...

“If you’re not on Github, you’re essentially unable to participate in the rich open-source community that has arisen around front-end development technologies.” Quand je dis que ma manière de travailler a changé je ne parle pas seulement du résultat final de mon travail mais du processus en lui-même, le workflow. En quelques mots c’est tout ce qui, de l’idée originelle, conduit au résultat final —...

Depuis quelques temps j’ai envie d’écrire une mince série de billets sur ce que je fais plus concrètement au travail. Histoire de partager, recueillir quelques avis et puis pouvoir discuter un peu de sujets qui me passionnent avec des gens qui traversent la même chose. Comme je l’avais mentionné dans un précédent article, j’ai commencé à travailler il y a deux ans et demi de cela. Quand je suis...

En terme de web les modes vont et viennent, tant au niveau du fond que de la forme. C’est à la fois dû à l’évolution des langages eux-mêmes et l’évolution des navigateurs qui lisent et déchiffrent ces langages. Sans doute est-ce le fait que je suis plus informé qu’avant mais j’ai l’impression que les choses s’accélèrent de plus en plus - et dans le bon sens. Quand je vois les efforts monstrueux de...

Je ne parle pas beaucoup de webdesign et de programmation sur mon blog. Pendant longtemps la raison a été que je ne me sentais pas forcément à l’aise avec ce que je faisais - pas assez au point par rapport aux nombreux standarts du web et à la qualité de ce qui se faisait ailleurs. Depuis le travail en agence m’a fait énormément progresser : moi qui n’avait à l’origine que quelques lointaines...

Le champ des thèmes que j’aurais pu aborder pour ce premier article était vaste : il y a nombre de domaines que je côtoie ou pratique et qui auraient pu figurer sur notre blog. Puis après réflexion je me suis dit que quitte à parler image et à faire le pont avec la communication, le choix le plus judicieux serait de parler photographie. Pourquoi ? Parce que la photo - de mon point de vue tout du...

Bien que l'ayant lu depuis un certain temps, Gerald's Game fut l'un des livres de Stephen King qui m'est le plus revenu en tête quand à mon tour j'ai voulu écrire. Sorte de huis-clos tant mental que physique, ce livre raconte l'histoire d'une femme – Jessie – qui se retrouve attachée à un lit au milieu de nulle part. Les thèmes abordés outre l'évidente solitude sont la perte progressive de tout...

You ever read any Nietzsche? Nietzsche says there are two kinds of people in the world : people who are destined for greatness, like Walt Disney and Hitler. And then there’s the rest of us. He called us “the bungled and the botched” — we get teased, we sometimes get close to greatness… but we never get there. We’re the expendable masses. We get pushed in front of trains, take poison aspirin, get...

Il est difficile d'aborder Jacob's Ladder de nos jours sans faire le lien avec l'univers torturé qu'il a engendré au travers de Silent Hill. Décrivant les tourments d'un postier à la sortie du Vietnam, chaque minute du film Jacob descend un peu plus profondément dans une réalité altérée où d'abstraites créatures semblent le pourchasser. Le scénario semble basique, et pourtant ce qu'il recèle et...

Overground in joy in clouds sunlit Snow untouched make pure silhouette Catches steam grass and dew Rays not harm the upward gaze Hosts bring out a game of openfields on the box Watch the guests who bring the heat of outside Flags of faith for boundaries to fight The young so wise before their time Dans mon article précédent j’abordais en introduction mon intérêt pour les groupes qui, de manière...

Tout comme pour Nine Inch Nails ceci est principalement un article pour présenter le groupe, si vous connaissez déjà je vous invite à rester pour éventuellement commenter sur la playlist. By the turnstile beckons a damsel fair The Face of Melinda neath blackened hair No joy would flicker in her eyes Brooding sadness came to a rise Words would falter to atone Failure had passed the stepping stone...

Histoire de changer des photos, un petit billet sur les webcomics que vous lisez. Venez me filer de nouvelles adresses. J’ai repris ma liste que j’avais faite sur le blog de Thermo en la complétant, essayez de ne pas faire de redite. Perry Bible Fellowship À lire absolument si vous ne l’avez jamais fait, ça change de style tout le temps, ça oscille entre l’humour absurde et l’humour noir, et...

À artiste complexe, article complet. Il faut comprendre qu’il y a énormément de choses à dire sur ce groupe, sa musique et ce qui l’entoure, tant et si bien que tout résumer à quelques paragraphes serait une insulte. Voilà pourquoi cet article est long, c’est le prix à payer pour combler ce petit trou intriguant dans votre culture musicale. Si les détails ne vous intéressent pas, sautez au...

J’ai conscience qu’à à peu près chaque fois que je publie sur ce blog j’annonce mon article sur Buckethead, mais c’est tellement difficile de cerner le personnage et ses indénombrables albums qu’en attendant je préfère me consacrer à d’autres poissons, plus petits mais néanmoins intéressants : les Cold War Kids. La musique du groupe dont je parle aujourd’hui n’en est pas pour autant plus facile...

There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die. Il y a un mois de cela, Factornews faisait une preview d’un jeu étrange, sorti de nulle part et développé par un petit studio indépendant : The Path. Revisite profondément macabre du conte de Perrault, sobre mélange de jeu vidéo expérience et d’art, il suffisait de lire les mots du...

Lie to Me c’est la nouvelle série de la Fox qui a commencé il y a environ un mois. Nous en sommes au quatrième épisode pour l’instant donc il est difficile de juger réellement la série, cependant je trouve le thème qu’elle aborde assez fascinant alors je viens vous en parler, voir ce que vous en pensez. Cette série met en scène le docteur Cal Lightman, joué par l’excellent Tim Roth que vous avez...

00:25 - Anahkiasen: « Disaster Movie » who the fuck downloaded that 00:25 - Saniss: TCHAKATCHAKATCHAKATCHAKA CHOOCHOOOOOOO 00:25 - Anahkiasen: Hm. 00:25 - Anahkiasen: Oui bon au point où j’en suis, va pour Disaster Movie. 00:26 - Anahkiasen: If you see me in twenty minutes it’s that this movie is actually a disaster. Avant toute chose, étant donné que la transition est quand même douteuse, jetez...