Lockdowns are a perfect excuse to spend a ridiculous amount of time pretending reality doesn’t existimproving my Home network security.

I switched to using the OpenWRT firmware on my router last year (yes, it was during a lockdown) and never went back to using something else. The OpenWRT team has managed to produce qualitative software that is both very powerful, yet usable. Unlike MicroTik that is hardly approachable by a beginner, OpenWRT found the right balance. Let me be clear, though: network engineering is something I dread as I have a shallow understanding of the networking stack.

Scrolling through the infinity of what has become Bandcamp Daily, I discovered a remarkable album of psychedelic rock from a band called Shadow Show. This trio from Detroit delivers a solid 10 tracks album. Kate Derringer (also bass player of the trio) did a great work on the mix (as well as on the bass!). It sounds like it comes straight from the 60s but with a cleaner touch. Vocals harmonics are especially great as well. I can’t wait to hear the vinyl.

To my very own surprise, after a decade of being a vim user, I have become a doom emacs user. This is the best of both worlds. I can keep my vim bindings (which I love in a Stockholm syndrome way), and I get to have the amazing Emacs operating system at hands. Look at me now, blogging from org2blog using my vim muscular memory on my WordPress instance.

Doom Emacs is insanely great. It takes a bit of time to get used to it but it’s a very rewarding thing to do. Org Mode is simply great and deserves to have more user.

I am super happy to announce that my friend Flore’s album RITUALS is finally around the corner. It will be released April 7th on POLAAR in digital and vinyl. Thanks to numerous supporters, the crowfunding for its vinyl release has met the funding goal in just a few hours. At time of writing, it is funded at 175%. The album has received a large number of positive reviews from press and radio. A terrific remix EP in on its track as well, with features from artists we would only have dreamt of working with just a few years back.

Hey there,

No introduction is the best kind of introduction, especially when I feel lazy. 

1. Want to see what automated state surveillance is? Go watch & read this interactive reporting on the New York Times: How China Turned a City into a Prison.
2. South Korea hotel guests were secretly filmed and the footage were livrestreamed online.
3. Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. 
4. Spatial is a neat AR collaboration tool using Microsoft’s Hololens2. It looks like a killer app for distributed teams. 
5. Mark Burgess (the author of Promise Theory) released his new book Smart Spacetime. I insta-added it in my anti-library. 
6. Thanks to Benoit Jacquemont, I now understand better what is HTTP/3.