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Lapeyre, y'en a pas deux. J'espère !
Je ne sais pas si vous avez déjà été confronté au SAV de Lapeyre, mais je peux vous dire qu'il vaut son pesant de cacahuètes.Le 4 octobre 2017, un technicien Lapeyre venait prendre des mesures chez moi...
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Using Cloudinary to convert an animated GIF to a video
I like animated GIFs, like most people these days I think, but they are really heavy, hurting the performance of web pages, and consuming data plans faster than should be needed. So we need to convert...
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The treasure behind the castle walls
Pile up enough treasure behind the castle walls and you'll eventually attract someone who can climb them.This is a nice quote about security threats caused by concentrating our personal data in a few...
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100000 tweets
100000 tweets. Already! Only? A little more than 11 years on Twitter, since I signed up May 25th 2007, and today I post my 100000th tweet. A lot have changed on Twitter, and it has brought me a lot of...
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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
Experienced plane pilot and software developer Gregory Travis explains in details what led to Boeing 737 Max recent disasters in this long article: How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software...
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Can we monitor User Happiness on the Web with performance tools?
I really like that SpeedCurve tried to innovate with this recent "User Happiness" metric. It aggregates multiple technical metrics to decide if users visiting the page are happy or not with it. But I...
View ArticleUpdating npm packages versions in package.json
I chose to use npm-check-updates to check for available updates of packages in my package.json files, and it always works without issues, so I guess I can recommend it.I'm also using this as a reminder...
View ArticleJAMstack is fast only if you make it so
JAMstack often promotes itself as an excellent way to provide performant sites. It's even the first listed benefit on jamstack.wtf, a "guide [which] gathers the concept of JAMstack in a...
View ArticleIdentify which Apache rewrite rules are used
I have many rewrite rules in my Apache configuration for redirections, some dating from more than 15 years ago. So I wanted to know which ones are really useful, because there's maybe some cleaning to...
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How I build my SVG sprites
I'm using an SVG sprite on this site to make sure I don't repeat SVG code for icons that are used multiple times, and I inline it so the rendering doesn't depend on another resource loading. Here's how...
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Enhancing archives navigation, step 1
I decided years ago to remove paged navigation (aka "pagination"), because I find it not user friendly at all, and a nightmare for SEO with new content pushing one tenth of contents to another page...
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Enhancing archives navigation, step 2
In my previous article Enhancing archives navigation, step 1, I promised further archives navigation enhancements. Here they are!Remember how UX of navigation in archives by year and month where...
View ArticleAccessible anchor links with Markdown-it and Eleventy
I like to be able to link directly to a section in a long content. I wish every site provided anchor links associated to headings, even if Text Fragments might be a cross browser thing sometimes in the...
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Cutting back on Instacrap
I've been disliking for a long time that Instagram is a closed platform, more so in the hands of Facebook.I additionally now really dislike that they are doing everything to resemble TikTok, by...
View ArticleLet's POSSE to Mastodon with a Feed and a GitHub Action
After building a Node script for my own POSSE needs, I thought it would be good if other people could also use it. I knew not many people would be able to use the script as-is, so I built a GitHub...
View ArticleUpdating webmentions on a static site
When I started using Webmention on this site (more than 5 years ago!), I was building the site on my local computer, and uploading the build result on my hosting with rsync. I've moved to Cloudflare...
View ArticleA bookmarklet to create a new link content Markdown on GitHub
When I was building my site on my local computer, I had a shell script to initialize a new Markdown file for sharing a link. When I moved to Cloudflare Pages 6 months ago, it opened a new opportunity...
View ArticleHow I built my own excerpt for Markdown content in Eleventy
I was not really happy with Eleventy's native excerpt solution requiring just a separator and having the excerpt content preserved in the content, without any way to style it differently. So I tried...
View ArticleRunning CSS animations only if both the device and the user allow it
Thanks to Chrome release notes, I discovered today that there is an update media feature which accepts values fast, slow and print, to set styles depending on the ability of the device to update the...
View ArticleHTML and CSS based View Transitions are coming
While same-document View Transitions have now been available for a while in Chromium browsers for Single Page Applications (SPA), they were requiring the use of a JavaScript API. Chrome Canary now...
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