Table ready. Books ready. Cake ready. GM screen ready. Now I just need to wait for my players to arrive. Tonight is gonna be a Pathfinder Society one-shot, played with Nimble rules.

J'ai le plaisir d'être invité au prochain livestream de Modeste (DevPropulsor), le 4 décembre à 19h ! Je parlerai de brefsearch.com - comment j'ai indexé Bref pour retrouver n'importe quelle scène instantanément. Venez avec vos questions, je répondrai à tout en direct 💬 luma.com/73998jev

Working on some calendars to show the upcoming meetups we're gonna host. Last month was busy (3 meetups) and next month will be as well.

Was at the #utopiales festival last week (sf & fantasy con, in Nantes) There were workshops for kids as well. Here are some pictures of the cardboard tower my daughter and I created. We both had a lot of fun. cc @clemlatz.dev

Spent the day in React-land (not my usual habitat) The nomenclature is confusing. "Hooks" aren't hooks. "useCallback" isn't about callbacks. I wish they'd coined new terms instead of reusing existing ones with different meanings.

Just binged Andor S1 & S2 (yeah, I'm late) Acting and VFX are stellar. But the storytelling? The art of building tension through each episode and season? This show is a masterpiece. Every single episode: "Wait, that was an hour already? One more...". And I don't even like Star Wars 🤷

If you missed my talk at #DevFestNantes, I'll also be at @devfestlyon.bsky.social on November 28th. The talk is about how I built brefsearch.com to search through every scene of "Bref" to find the exact scene you're looking for (in 🇫🇷). Starring CLI tools, APIs, front-end, and a bit of AI magic ✨

Started a game of NoteQuest (solo dungeon exploring) with my 7yo daughter. It's supposed to be played only with pen and paper but when one has nice terrain and minis, one finds any excuse to use them.

I split the code of brefsearch.com into two repositories: - github.com/algolia/brefsearch contains the code of the one-page front-end, reading data from Algolia - github.com/algolia/brefsearch-data contains the data and the code to generate it

Just realized I have been paying ~70€/year from my registrar for a mailbox I wasn't even using (all mails where intercepted at the DNS MX level already).

"Special character", "Machine-readable". How am I supposed to know how a machine reads my passport? I can tell you what my name is, and how it is written on my passport, but I'm not a machine and I have no idea how one will read it... It's 2025. Machines can read a "é" without exploding.

#DevFestNantes reminded me how much I love sharing on stage 🎤 So I'm already working on the abstract of another talk Before I submit to CFPs, I'd love your honest feedback on the abstract. What resonates? What's missing?

And the last one is projects.pixelastic.com/landscapes/, a search into all the beautiful pictures posted on r/earthporn. Data dump available here: github.com/pixelastic/l...

The third one I never finished: a search into all the incredible items from @griffonssaddlebag.bsky.social The art and flavor are absolutely fantastic. I wanted to make them easier to search and discover, but I guess it's destined to remain unfinished now. gamemaster.pixelastic.com/items/

Second one to become officially "frozen" is gamemaster.pixelastic.com/maps/, a searchable list of 27k+ maps posted on r/dndmaps. Again, I can't keep it up to date because of restrictions on Reddit APIs, so it is now frozen in place. Data dump available here: github.com/pixelastic/m...

I am officially deprecating a few websites I built 3 years ago. They were all depending on me getting data from the Reddit API (and its little sister: pushshift) but as this has now been closed, it's time I officially end them. The first one is gamemaster.pixelastic.com/terrainbuild...

Merci à toutes les personnes qui sont venus à mon talk hier au #devfestnantes, et qui m'ont fait plein de retours positifs. Ça fait très plaisir ! Vous m'avez donné plein d'idées améliorer le site (compteur de vues automatique, crowdsourcing des sous-titres, etc).

Jeudi prochain, j'aurai la chance de présenter un de mes side projects au #DevFestNantes, à 17h50, en salle Jules Verne. > "Capitaine, capitaine, vous n'êtes pas le capitaine !" On y parlera série télé, CLI, YouTube, search et un (tout petit) peu AI.

Recently I've started playing #BaldursGate3 again, and I documented it at bg3.pixelastic.com. This will give you a glance at how I play videogames. My ADHD and creative mind means I hunt exploits, glitches and other edge cases for fun. No mods, latest patch.

@thealexlichter.com Here's the english version of my talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRH4... Safe travels!

@adrienjoly.com Hey, j'ai enfin pu écouter le SAV de la tech; en fait c'était ma version de l'app Spotify Android qui était trop vieille et le podcast passait pas. Mise à jour et c'est ok. En plus j'ai écouté un épisode où tu parlais de moi :) Well done, j'en écouterai d'autres

App of the day: subliminal github.com/Diaoul/subli... CLI command to automatically download subtitles for those .mp4 files you have that are definitely not copyrighted material that just so happen to sit on your hard drive. $ subliminal download -l fr ./Something - S01E14.mp4

🎵 Hey, Claude, don't make it bad Take a bad code and make it better Remember to let AI into your app Then you can start to make it better 🎶

Found the original plastic toy that inspired the D&D Rust Monster

Day two of secret project. I realize I bought a Micro HDMI adapter, but it's a Mini HDMI adapter I need.

Lucas has been one of the most incredible person to work with.

"Comment distinguer ce qu'on veut de ce qu'on ne veut pas, quand on nous apprends depuis toujours que les désirs des plus puissants que nous doivent primer ? " open.spotify.com/episode/52U9...

"How many seconds of time are there in eternity?"

Hey les Nantais ! 👋 Envie de donner votre premier talk mais vous ne savez pas par où commencer ? #NantesJS organise un meetup spécial mercredi pour vous aider ! J'y serai pour vous aider et vous présenter ma méthode des "4S" (Subject, Story, Slides, Speaker) www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-le...

Yeah \o/ See you all at DevFest Nantes 2025

Step 1 of secret project activated. Hmm, no step 1 was actually ordering the parts. Or was it researching for hours what those parts are? Or was it thinking about the project? Anyway, progress is being made!

Giving away some terrain pieces I no longer need.

@adrienjoly.com j'ai essayé d'écouter le SAV de la Tech sur Spotify, mais j'ai pas l'impression que ça marche, les épisodes ne se lancent pas (et j'ai pas de message d'erreur plus précis)

Submitted my fun little talk about brefsearch.com to DevFest Nantes, DevFest Lyon, BDX I/O, Codeurs en Seine and a few local meetups (RennesJS, HumanTalks Angers & Nantes). Pfew! We'll see how many are going to accept it, but after that batch I'll probably switch to another talk topic 😅

I'll be speaking at the Paris HumanTalks meetup tomorrow night, about the making of brefsearch.com We'll be hosted at Alan, and we'll also talk about DDD, Gen AI and Nuxt. See you there! www.meetup.com/fr-FR/humant...

Bref. J'ai cherché dans les épisodes. www.brefsearch.com Si vous aussi la saison 2 vous a donné envie de revoir la saison 1, @lukyvj.bsky.social et moi on vous a fait un petit cadeau pour retrouver les punchlines.

Quick Airtable Interface hack of the day: keeping context of the currently selected item, even when moving across pages. Spoiler: It does not scale I mark the item as `isPinnedInUI` and use it to order the Record Picker elements. Obviously breaks if more than one person work on it at the same time.

Whisper has a 25MB file limit. But input audio quality doesn't seem to impact output transcript quality.So, I've been converting my files to crappy (but lightweight) versions, and I still get good enough transcripts. I shared the exact settings I'm using (with CloudConvert) on my blog.

@thedaisymoon.me hey merci pour Burn Your Idols (le podcast et m'avoir appris le concept) Depuis que tu en a parlé en conférence, j'étais intrigué par le concept (surtout que j'ai vécu la même chose avec Josh Whedon). Hâte des prochains épisodes. Bravo

Some highlights of yesterday's game. Started in a quiet room filled with magical fungi, got attacked by a whole room and then had to close a portal amidst floating stone platforms

Ce texte a un peu plus de 10 ans. Je l'avais lu à l'époque, il m'avait marqué. J'y repense de temps en temps, et je le relis, et il me marque toujours autant. 140000caracteres.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/s...

Hey, see that embed below? I generated it with @templated.bsky.social. It actually links to the blog post where I explain how I did that. Meta. https://blog.pixelastic.com/2025/01/23/templated-io-embeds/

I missed blogging my findings, but now that I've found a great workflow, it's so much easier \o/ Oh, and the sky is sure more blue here

Rewriting static to dynamic imports in JS is straightforward for named imports. But when it comes to default exports, don't forget the parentheses and the .default! `await import('./file.js')).default` https://blog.pixelastic.com/2025/01/21/import-static-dynamic-differences-esm/

Every time I think I get "this" in JavaScript, it surprises me. Got an "Illegal invocation" error with `fetch` on Cloudflare Workers. Fixed it by encapsulating `fetch` instead of passing it by reference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://blog.pixelastic.com/2025/01/21/fetch-this-illegal-invocation/

On a blogging spree! Started a simple proxy script, turned it into a project with JSON-LD, GraphQL, unit tests, and error handling. Fun times! https://blog.pixelastic.com/2025/01/15/hidden-complexity-just-a-few-lines-of-code/

Ever debugged a failed HTTP call and ended up rewriting your whole stack to ESM? No? Lucky you! I just did and traded an afternoon of debugging with a tree-shakeable bundle. I'd call that a win . https://blog.pixelastic.com/2025/01/14/journey-esm-tree-shaking/

Recently, I've been connecting to remote machines regularly, and without my complex local zsh, I felt lost. So, I crafted a minimal `.zshrc` for remote servers. It has colors, smarter completions, and make the keyboard work like you'd expect. https://blog.pixelastic.com/2025/01/08/minimal-zshrc/