I like to occasionally write articles about things that pique my interest at work, or opinions that I form over the years.
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The Long Dark
The Long Dark🇺🇸 englishJuly 2025 (at 35)#now#writing#depression#nature#society194 words1 minute to read
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 sa…
Rage Against the Machines
Rage Against the Machines🇺🇸 englishMarch 2025 (at 35)#ai#society#writing#learning2292 words8 minutes to read
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 t…
The Tale of the Berlinerin-ing
The Tale of the Berlinerin-ing🇺🇸 englishJuly 2024 (at 34)#documentary#writing#people#emma#relationships974 words3 minutes to read
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 f…
Spiraling Out: the art of AI optical illusions
Spiraling Out: the art of AI optical illusions🇺🇸 englishOctober 2023 (at 33)#ai#writing#learning2638 words9 minutes to read
| | |:--:| | Source: Reddit | 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 o…
Fediverse and the new era of social networks
Fediverse and the new era of social networks🇺🇸 englishJune 2023 (at 33)#technology#society#writing#learning3240 words11 minutes to read
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…
Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks
Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks🇺🇸 englishApril 2021 (at 31)#ai#writing#learning2434 words8 minutes to read
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 t…
Learning Machine Learning
Learning Machine Learning🇺🇸 englishJanuary 2021 (at 31)#ai#writing#learning1530 words5 minutes to read
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 at…
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work🇺🇸 englishOctober 2019 (at 29)#productivity#technology#writing#learning3050 words10 minutes to read
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 integra…
Why do we use bad color schemes?
Why do we use bad color schemes?🇺🇸 englishJuly 2019 (at 29)#technology#writing#learning1615 words5 minutes to read
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. | | |:--:| | No color scheme | | | |:--:| | Yes color scheme | Colors made it easier for us to pars…
Don't Notion shine when she's gone?
Don't Notion shine when she's gone?🇺🇸 englishJuly 2018 (at 28)#productivity#writing#learning2493 words8 minutes to read
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 start…
Webpack your Bags
Webpack your Bags🇺🇸 englishOctober 2015 (at 25)#technology#writing#learning7097 words24 minutes to read
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 ho…
Version Control
Version Control🇫🇷 françaisMay 2012 (at 22)#technology#writing#learning2209 words7 minutes to read
“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 fina…
Quatre ans en images
Quatre ans en images🇫🇷 françaisSeptember 2011 (at 21)#writing#arts#photography#emma4008 words13 minutes to read
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 m…
Nadja: Shattered by your Abrasive Touch
Nadja: Shattered by your Abrasive Touch🇫🇷 françaisSeptember 2010 (at 20)#music#review#writing4326 words14 minutes to read
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 g…
Archive: Down Your Love
Archive: Down Your Love🇫🇷 françaisMay 2010 (at 20)#music#review#writing2909 words10 minutes to read
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 …
Opeth: And All Would Sneer at my Demise
Opeth: And All Would Sneer at my Demise🇫🇷 françaisApril 2010 (at 20)#music#review#writing3030 words10 minutes to read
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 sto…
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails🇫🇷 françaisJune 2009 (at 19)#music#review#writing4821 words16 minutes to read
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 paragra…
I like to occasionally write articles about things that pique my interest at work, or opinions that I form over the years.
Toggle filters
The Long Dark
The Long Dark🇺🇸 englishJuly 2025 (at 35)#now#writing#depression#nature#society194 words1 minute to read
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 sa…
Rage Against the Machines
Rage Against the Machines🇺🇸 englishMarch 2025 (at 35)#ai#society#writing#learning2292 words8 minutes to read
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 t…
The Tale of the Berlinerin-ing
The Tale of the Berlinerin-ing🇺🇸 englishJuly 2024 (at 34)#documentary#writing#people#emma#relationships974 words3 minutes to read
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 f…
Spiraling Out: the art of AI optical illusions
Spiraling Out: the art of AI optical illusions🇺🇸 englishOctober 2023 (at 33)#ai#writing#learning2638 words9 minutes to read
| | |:--:| | Source: Reddit | 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 o…
Fediverse and the new era of social networks
Fediverse and the new era of social networks🇺🇸 englishJune 2023 (at 33)#technology#society#writing#learning3240 words11 minutes to read
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…
Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks
Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks🇺🇸 englishApril 2021 (at 31)#ai#writing#learning2434 words8 minutes to read
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 t…
Learning Machine Learning
Learning Machine Learning🇺🇸 englishJanuary 2021 (at 31)#ai#writing#learning1530 words5 minutes to read
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 at…
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work🇺🇸 englishOctober 2019 (at 29)#productivity#technology#writing#learning3050 words10 minutes to read
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 integra…
Why do we use bad color schemes?
Why do we use bad color schemes?🇺🇸 englishJuly 2019 (at 29)#technology#writing#learning1615 words5 minutes to read
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. | | |:--:| | No color scheme | | | |:--:| | Yes color scheme | Colors made it easier for us to pars…
Don't Notion shine when she's gone?
Don't Notion shine when she's gone?🇺🇸 englishJuly 2018 (at 28)#productivity#writing#learning2493 words8 minutes to read
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 start…
Webpack your Bags
Webpack your Bags🇺🇸 englishOctober 2015 (at 25)#technology#writing#learning7097 words24 minutes to read
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 ho…
Version Control
Version Control🇫🇷 françaisMay 2012 (at 22)#technology#writing#learning2209 words7 minutes to read
“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 fina…
Quatre ans en images
Quatre ans en images🇫🇷 françaisSeptember 2011 (at 21)#writing#arts#photography#emma4008 words13 minutes to read
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 m…
Nadja: Shattered by your Abrasive Touch
Nadja: Shattered by your Abrasive Touch🇫🇷 françaisSeptember 2010 (at 20)#music#review#writing4326 words14 minutes to read
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 g…
Archive: Down Your Love
Archive: Down Your Love🇫🇷 françaisMay 2010 (at 20)#music#review#writing2909 words10 minutes to read
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 …
Opeth: And All Would Sneer at my Demise
Opeth: And All Would Sneer at my Demise🇫🇷 françaisApril 2010 (at 20)#music#review#writing3030 words10 minutes to read
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 sto…
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails🇫🇷 françaisJune 2009 (at 19)#music#review#writing4821 words16 minutes to read
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 paragra…