Antoine's blog

Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.

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OpenAI's Codex: A review after a dozen AI generated PRs

May 19, 2025
Some thoughts on Codex after having used it for two days to generate a dozen production PRs.

Workouts for the week of May 19, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on May 19, 2025
8 km, 45 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on May 20, 2025
4 km, 30 minutes

Workouts for the week of May 12, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on May 17, 2025
6 km, 36 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied le matin on May 18, 2025
6 km, 40 minutes

Workouts for the week of May 5, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on May 07, 2025
12 km, 1 hours, 10 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied en soirée on May 08, 2025
6 km, 38 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT dans l'après-midi on May 09, 2025
52 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on May 10, 2025
13 km, 1 hours, 20 minutes

Workouts for the week of April 28, 2025

🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on April 28, 2025
20 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 29, 2025
8 km, 52 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT en soirée on April 30, 2025
52 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied le matin on May 01, 2025
4 km, 27 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids le matin on May 02, 2025
41 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on May 04, 2025
5 km, 31 minutes

Workouts for the week of April 21, 2025

🏋️‍♂️ HIIT le midi on April 21, 2025
55 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 22, 2025
8 km, 50 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT le matin on April 23, 2025
54 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids dans l'après-midi on April 25, 2025
29 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied le midi on April 26, 2025
8 km, 46 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT dans l'après-midi on April 27, 2025
56 minutes

Duolingo's engagement tricks

April 14, 2025
A collection of the tricks Duolingo uses to keep you engaged and returning to the app.

Workouts for the week of April 14, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied le matin on April 16, 2025
2 km, 13 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT le matin on April 16, 2025
14 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied le midi on April 16, 2025
1 km, 11 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT le midi on April 16, 2025
17 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 17, 2025
6 km, 39 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT dans l'après-midi on April 18, 2025
56 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 19, 2025
14 km, 1 hours, 27 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids le matin on April 20, 2025
32 minutes

Workouts for the week of April 7, 2025

🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement en soirée on April 07, 2025
55 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied en soirée on April 09, 2025
7 km, 45 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement en soirée on April 10, 2025
48 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 13, 2025
9 km, 52 minutes

Workouts for the week of March 31, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 02, 2025
4 km, 27 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on April 05, 2025
3 km, 23 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on April 06, 2025
14 minutes

Workouts for the week of March 24, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on March 26, 2025
8 km, 52 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on March 28, 2025
32 minutes

Workouts for the week of March 17, 2025

🏋️‍♂️ HIIT le matin on March 17, 2025
54 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on March 18, 2025
4 km, 27 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ HIIT le matin on March 19, 2025
28 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on March 23, 2025
3 km, 23 minutes

Workouts for the week of March 10, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on March 15, 2025
6 km, 35 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids le matin on March 16, 2025
42 minutes

Reviewing OpenAI's Deep Research: A good starting point

February 04, 2025
Deep Research is an interesting first implementation that can provide highly engaging outputs. However, it's not yet anything near what an analyst would produce, especially due to the suboptimal research process.

Accessing OpenAI's Operator outside the USA

January 29, 2025
A simple approach to accessing OpenAI's Operator and Sora outside the USA, and especially in Europe.
#ai

OpenAI Operator review: Currently too limited but reasons to be hopeful

January 29, 2025
OpenAI's Operator is an interesting product/research preview. It has a lot of potential and it's only a matter of time before it provides significant value to its users. But for now, its reasoning and browser skills are too limited.

Building an offline first E2E encrypted web app with PGlite and Electric

January 26, 2025
This is the approach I'm currently taking to build an offline first web application suing PGlite and Electric.

Workouts for the week of January 13, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied en soirée on January 13, 2025
3 km, 22 minutes

Workouts for the week of January 6, 2025

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied en soirée on January 06, 2025
3 km, 22 minutes
🧘‍♂️ Yoga dans l'après-midi on January 08, 2025
21 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied en soirée on January 09, 2025
4 km, 24 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Marche dans l'après-midi on January 12, 2025
1 km, 20 minutes

Enriching or modifying an Anki deck with LLMs

January 03, 2025
If you want to make large-scale changes to an Anki deck, OpenAI's GPT or Perplexity are great options. As there are no native integrations yet with those tools, I share a small script to get the same result.

Workouts for the week of December 30, 2024

🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on December 30, 2024
4 km, 22 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on December 31, 2024
33 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on January 03, 2025
3 km, 22 minutes

Thresholds, not goals

December 28, 2024
Some thoughts on using daily thresholds instead of goals as a way of ensuring consistent progress while minimizing cognitive load.

Workouts for the week of December 23, 2024

🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on December 24, 2024
12 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied le matin on December 25, 2024
7 km, 46 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on December 26, 2024
25 minutes
🏃‍♂️ Course à pied dans l'après-midi on December 27, 2024
4 km, 28 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids dans l'après-midi on December 29, 2024
25 minutes

Using OpenAI's o1 models for code reviews (and my custom rake task)

December 18, 2024
With a simple rake task, you can generate a prompt to have o1 provide a comprehensive review of your code.

Workouts for the week of December 16, 2024

🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids dans l'après-midi on December 16, 2024
24 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on December 16, 2024
18 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement le matin on December 19, 2024
1 hours, 9 minutes
🧘‍♂️ Yoga de nuit on December 20, 2024
13 minutes
🧘‍♂️ Yoga en soirée on December 21, 2024
7 minutes
🏋️‍♂️ Entraînement aux poids en soirée on December 22, 2024
21 minutes