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2025/11/09: 22 games to get to know me

Yes, 22. This is the text version of a picture I posted on the fediverse (cw: in french).


2025/11/02: 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.


2025/10/26: Ten facts about me

Today, Sunday the 26th was the end of the daylight saving time period. I woke up early.
Right now it's 10pm. I'll stay up late. So I might as well write a little, I tried yesterday but didn't go far. So to take it easy I'll do what I've seen James and Alex write the other day.

Tea, coffee, or water?

Tea, because I love tea.
I share tea with friends.
My favourite tea is "Ruby 18" from Sun Moon Lake in Taïwan.

Footwear preference?

old sneakers

Favourite dessert?

Éclair à la vanille. It's what I get on my birthday.

The first thing you do when you wake up?

I check the weather by the window.

How many hats do you own?

Three.
Two caps, one from Beijing I bought in 2018, one from the schooner Recouvrance my grandpa bought me in early 2000s. And a beanie I bought last winter.

Describe the last photo you took.

A picture of a friend, sitting on her couch, using a shoe box on her lap as a mousepad.
She's wearing all black; sweatshirt, leggings and a beanie because it's cold.

Best TV show.

Yes I changed this one, I do the rules here. These last few years, Slow Horses.
Else Avatar: the last airbender, which I originally watched on my Nintendo DS lite.

Do you floss your teeth?

No, I don't understand how this works.
I wash my teeth three times a day with a three-minute hourglass, I believe that's enough.


2025/08/31: World Blog Day

Today, the 31st of august is World Blog Day! Because if you use the Gregorian calendar and the day-month-year sequence, the 31st of august, 3108, kinda looks like BLOG.