Comment a été organisé l'évènement Cloud Nord.

Les vidéos de l'évènement sont disponibles sur Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVQhat0Bx0WB-fhbbQ0bQkhfTLAZIU2IU

Ne soyons pas fâchés avec l’IA : c’est un outil, et c’est l’usage que nous en faisons qui détermine sa pertinence. De mon côté, je ne me sens pas menacée par ces outils.

Ce qui m’inquiète davantage, c’est l’idée que leur existence puisse laisser croire que l’on peut, à terme, se passer de l’expertise — comme si l’outil suffisait à remplacer la pensée, la méthode et l’intention du designer.

Le souci, c’est que quand la création devient trop accessible et que le content management4 se réduit à la simple production de visuels ou de posts, on perd de vue l’essentiel. Un contenu n’a de valeur que s’il sert un objectif — informer, convaincre, orienter, faire agir. Le rôle du design n’est pas de générer des images, mais de provoquer un effet mesurable. C’est exactement la logique du Design Thinking5 appliqué au graphisme : commencer par comprendre les besoins et les objectifs, pour créer un contenu qui fonctionne réellement.

Some useful tips in the CLCLI to handle dotfiles and customization of the shell.

The poisonous tumour installed in my brain by a decade of reading about Silicon Valley always thinks 'this is a business that can never scale' and it's like well yes that is the fucking point actual

In short, I am now trying really hard to spend my money in ways that I hope will affect and improve the world around me both for myself and for others. None of us can do it alone. But I think there is hope if we do it together.

I haven't been talked down to by anybody else who is also making their own gentle change. The same way that you rarely get shit on by somebody doing better than you at anything.

Une histoire de prédation en deux toots.

2017 : j'achète une licence oXygen. Soit-disant à vie. Quelque chose comme 200 euros mais bon, pour une licence permanente ça vaut le coup.

2019 : y a de plus en plus de mises à jour, c'est chiant, et je dois faire bosser des étudiants, je trouve une alternative un peu moins bien mais gratuite, j'utilise moins oXygen.

2024 : ma licence n'est plus valable (je m'en rends compte au hasard d'un changement d'ordinateur, oups je peux plus installer oXygen depuis la version de 2020 en fait). Je me passe d'oXygen.

2025 : je tombe sur un os, il y a un truc que je ne peux faire bien qu'avec oXygen. Je regarde les tarifs pour racheter une licence. Je crie.

Pour une communication d'un évènement écologique, les documents sont sur Google Drive, avec des modèles Canva et les réseaux sociaux utilisés sont Instagram. Facebook, Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn et Tiktok.

Le logiciel libre semble avoir raté l'adoption par les militants des outils numériques. C'est fort dommage. Il n'a pas réussi.

Pour les hébergements, les associatifs ou les pros auxquels j'ai posé la question pourquoi les gafam pour l’hébergement web, les réponses sont toutes quasi pareilles : c'est pas cher et facile.
Quand tu dis qu'il existe des assos, des entreprises qui peuvent aider, nan mais on va pas s’embêter a changer

À propos des organisations progressistes, de gauche ou d'intérêt général

(de https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@damvfl/115197547309966024)

Voir aussi https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@lienrag/115181470723922122

Indeed, IA allows budget to be reduced and to for niches. Here small websites that can still be developed by programmers.

By lowering costs and speeding up delivery, professional custom websites are now accessible to startups and small businesses that could never have afforded traditional agencies.

The market changed: few hundred for a website and 7 days to delivery

I realized that, if we look back on many of those projects she worked on, it wasn’t as simple as she made it sound. In retrospect, a lot of the projects she got assigned to were initially not glamorous. They didn’t initially call for net new design work, many of them weren’t even that fun to start out on. In fact, I can recall many times she got assigned to projects and teams that were in a slump, and were slogging through the work. I could really only think of one or two examples in years of working together where she was handed something that was a desirable project from the very start. [...] What made those projects glamorous and desirable was her and how she approached the work. There’s that old nugget about making your own luck and that is something she excelled at. She had a unique ability to take really hard or nebulous problems (both design and team-related) and morph them into something amazing that got people excited. Instead of getting discouraged, she’d respond to friction with more energy, more enthusiasm. In so many ways, she was a transformative presence on any team and project.

Because over time, I found that she was someone who could take that hard, unamazing stuff and make it seem effortless and amazing.

he projects weren’t good. They were made good.

All the forms are sent as PDF.

When the experience of clicking a link, waiting for a Javascript-heavy page to load and dismissing a thousand pop-ups has become the norm, it’s hardly surprising that a good many users would rather bypass that experience altogether and are turning to AI and chatbots to do the browsing for them.

The experience of browsing the web could be so much better than it is right now, without the huge social and environmental cost of AI. Perhaps there would be less demand for chatbots if the web itself was less hostile.

we’re going from running 177 Cassandra nodes to just 72 ScyllaDB nodes. Each ScyllaDB node has 9 TB of disk space, up from the average of 4 TB per Cassandra node.

They migrated away from CassandraDB to ScyllaDB with a rust-based data service

Comment une personne est arrivée à un bordel dans sa vie à cause de mélanges des lois transgenres.

Faire un tour 6.7k toute les heures.

Cette course contre soi-même porte un nom: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_ultra

Embracing slow means I’ve gone from hovering around three runs a week to at least five. Regularly hitting 60kms and still feeling like I could do more. By mixing hard work and snappy tempo runs with slow and steady, and doing it properly I am faster, healthier and more importantly happier than I have felt in years.

The ideas of a grug developer.

I used to be on a team that was responsible for the care and feeding of a great many Linux boxes which together constituted the "web tier" for a giant social network.

At some point, I realized that if I wrote a wiki page and documented the things that we were willing to support, I could wait about six months and then it would be like it had always been there. Enough people went through the revolving doors of that place such that six months' worth of employee turnover was sufficient to make it look like a whole other company. All I had to do was write it, wait a bit, then start citing it when needed.

One near-quote from that page did escape into the outside world. It has to do with the "non-compliant host" actions: "Note: any of these many happen without prior notification to experiment owners in the interest of keeping the site healthy. Drain first, investigate second."

So the author created a list of actions; methods to apply for any given events.

It’s not always easy to keep these separate, especially when one’s vocation transcends mere occupation to become a genuine passion and source of fulfillment.

The job [...] starts with great enthusiasm, but may evolve to reveal fundamental incompatibilities.

it seems almost predictable that when someone works defining design principles for their clients all day, they don’t necessarily stop and think: Oh, maybe I should apply these same methods to my own life as well.

“One of the choices I’m most proud of is that early on, I realized that what success looks like for me is freedom and curiosity and the ability to follow whatever path I take.”

Freedom, Curiosity, Happiness, Authenticity, Love