Mattla:notes

7 mars 2026 - Le printemps par la fenêtre

Aujourd'hui ça va faire une bonne semaine qu'il fait anormalement bon pour début mars.
On dépasse les 16°C tous les jours. Physiquement c'est agréable.
Quatre mois que j'ai repris le travail. Je n'ai pas eu beaucoup de temps pour moi depuis.
J'ai fais le ménage, peut-être que cette année enfin je vais être contente de ce que je fais ici.

4 janvier 2026 - Tout recommencer ?

J'ai la facheuse habitude de supprimer, de débarasser, pour recommencer plus tard la même chose. Ce trait me dérange et plus j'apprends, plus je m'implique, plus il s'exprime et plus je perds. Il fragilise mes bases, rend mes avancées plus saccadées et rares que ce que j'aimerais.
Aujourd'hui, j'ai envie d'apprendre à changer. Attention travaux. En chantier.

december 22 2025 - Past the lowest point

Yesterday was the winter solstice in the northern emisphere. My past week has been one of the worst since the sun started going south. It's been almost two months since I started working again. Tomorrow is the last day before a 5-day holidays. The week ahead will most likely be full of events to manage through if everything goes as planned. I think I will hold another year. I will hold another year. I've tried and tried again to write and follow new year resolutions, to make it special, but it never worked for me. Habits come and go through the seasons, I shouldn't expect myself to shake out my bedding every freezy winter morning. Nevertheless, the winter solstice, new year, the holidays, it's hard not to look at the events that made me end up here. I made a new notebook yesterday. It's pretty and has the same gradient as my blog (wrong).
I use it to take notes, to doodle and to keep my tram ticket. This way I keep memories somewhere in my room. No one gets to read it but me. Picture of said notebook before a black background. It features a pink and blue gradient on its cover.

Picture of said notebook before a black background. It features a pink and blue gradient on its cover.

I'm listening to lots of music. The 3 latest albums I listened to are:

I'm playing through the first Planet of Lana, which is cute, and started splaying Death Stranding earlier this month. I love the atmosphere and the walking. I've started writing some new blog posts, that will come in the next few months. I like what I started to write. You may expect: cooking, language learning and other nerd stuff.
Take care in these dark days, the sun will rise again.

november 9 2025: games to get to know me

Team Fortress 2 followed me for 5 years between 2012 and 2017.
Link's Awakening I got gifted a sealed box version of by family. I play it often still.
Minecraft when I don't wanna play Terraria.
Terraria when I don't wanna play Minecraft.
Celeste I finished at 100% earlier this year. I loved the challenge.
Breath of the Wild gives me the same feelings as roaming the fields by bike.
Hotline Miami 1 and 2. The feeling is sooo good.
Rayman Legends Wii U is one of the best platformer ever.
Super Smash Bros. Try me.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D was incredible to play on the 3DS.
Blüem is a game I made in 2021. I have made 4 games.
Picross e8. 3DS at it's peak as a travel buddy.

november 2 2025: Choosing to follow RSS

I think it's been about a year since I started using RSS regularly to follow various blogs, websites, videos and sometime the news. This is a note about how I used RSS this past year.

Following RSS feeds

I used to have an app on my phone, but then I removed most apps from my phone. Since I set up Yunohost on my home server, I've been using FreshRSS.
If you don't have somewhere to self-host FreshRSS, you can still use a community server, or another app directly on your phone/computer.
FreshRSS is my RSS feed aggregator, I open it in my browser every so often to check what's up.
It seems very powerful if I ever had different needs, but for now I only use it's most basic functions: adding new feeds, sorting them into categories, reading posts, adding favourites and exporting lists for backup purposes.

Finding feeds

Most blogs and other IndieWeb-adjacent websites display the rss logo proudly somewhere on their landing page. Copy-paste-done.
But it happens that I can't find it. If so, I try and add either feed.xml or rss at the end of the url. Works often.

Generating feeds

Sometimes, there is no feed. That's where tools like rss-bridge are very useful. I use it to follow Youtube playlists, but I know that there's a big number of community bridges to follow tons of websites.

Handwriting my RSS feed

Stumbled upon this article while discovering Everest Pipkin's website last week. I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one to handwrite my feed. I don't need some fancy script or app to write this for me.

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