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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Workouts for the week of November 18, 2024

๐Ÿšดโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Ride on November 18, 2024
0 km, 43 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on November 19, 2024
29 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on November 20, 2024
5 km, 31 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on November 21, 2024
30 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Yoga de nuit on November 23, 2024
20 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Entraรฎnement aux poids le matin on November 24, 2024
28 minutes

Running Windows 98 on an Apple Silicon Mac: A practical guide and some thoughts

November 12, 2024
A guide on how to run Windows 98 on a modern Mac, install old games and applications, and what lessons to take away from it.

Workouts for the week of November 11, 2024

๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on November 11, 2024
30 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on November 12, 2024
27 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Run on November 13, 2024
6 km, 36 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Yoga on November 14, 2024
31 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on November 15, 2024
32 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on November 16, 2024
6 km, 38 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Yoga on November 17, 2024
41 minutes

Potato Analytics: Minimalistic, privacy-conscious tracking for your website

November 08, 2024
Potato Analytics is a minimalist, self-hosted solution for tracking unique pageviews with minimal maintenance and zero data collectionโ€”all thanks to the efficiency of the HyperLogLog algorithm

First rule of server security: Zero access

November 05, 2024
Most horror stories I read about unauthorized server access could have been prevented if the server had been locked down. Here's how to do it in a few minutes.

Workouts for the week of November 4, 2024

๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on November 04, 2024
4 km, 25 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Night Yoga on November 05, 2024
14 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on November 06, 2024
31 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Yoga on November 09, 2024
27 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on November 10, 2024
6 km, 36 minutes

PSA: Don't use Cloudflare Fonts in production

November 03, 2024
Seeing features in the Cloudflare dashboard used to be great. You pressed a button, and your website was now slightly better. Sadly, this isn't the case with Cloudflare Fonts, and I would recommend staying away for now.

Using embeddings to display related articles with Supabase in Ruby on Rails

October 31, 2024
A short tutorial on how to use Supabase to store embeddings on blog posts to display related articles.

Workouts for the week of October 28, 2024

๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Morning Ruck on October 28, 2024
3 km, 35 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Weight Training on October 29, 2024
21 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on October 30, 2024
6 km, 35 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on October 31, 2024
30 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Yoga on November 02, 2024
15 minutes
๐Ÿšดโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Ride on November 03, 2024
0 km, 30 minutes

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign review โ€” Delivers the fun

October 27, 2024
This weekend, I went over Black Ops 6's campaign. They are clichรฉ, but for a couple of hours, experiencing those action-packed games is a guilty pleasure of mine. Overall, this latest game delivers the goods, albeit with a bit more eclecticism than expected.

You're using your AirPods too much

October 24, 2024
AirPods and modern media options are great. Too good actually. Most of us would benefit from more silence.

Workouts for the week of October 21, 2024

๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Run on October 21, 2024
5 km, 31 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Weight Training on October 22, 2024
26 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Run on October 23, 2024
7 km, 42 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Night Yoga on October 24, 2024
14 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Workout on October 25, 2024
1 hours, 5 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Weight Training on October 27, 2024
30 minutes

Building Integral Review v2... and a blogging platform

October 20, 2024
I wanted a more custom blog reminiscent of the older web, full of intimate personal websites, so I rebuilt my blog with a custom blogging platform.

Workouts for the week of October 14, 2024

๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on October 14, 2024
1 hours, 8 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Run on October 15, 2024
7 km, 42 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Weight Training on October 16, 2024
20 minutes
๐Ÿšดโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Ride on October 17, 2024
0 km, 23 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Workout on October 18, 2024
1 hours, 0 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Night Yoga on October 19, 2024
14 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Weight Training on October 20, 2024
20 minutes

Workouts for the week of October 7, 2024

๐Ÿšดโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Ride on October 07, 2024
0 km, 22 minutes
๐Ÿšดโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Ride on October 09, 2024
0 km, 18 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Yoga on October 10, 2024
19 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Weight Training on October 11, 2024
19 minutes
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Night Yoga on October 12, 2024
8 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Lunch Ruck on October 13, 2024
3 km, 53 minutes

Workouts for the week of September 30, 2024

๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Night Weight Training on September 30, 2024
6 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on October 03, 2024
6 km, 45 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Spartan Race Ultra on October 05, 2024
56 km, 9 hours, 38 minutes

Workouts for the week of September 23, 2024

๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Run on September 25, 2024
11 km, 1 hours, 10 minutes
๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Afternoon Weight Training on September 26, 2024
51 minutes
๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Evening Run on September 27, 2024
7 km, 45 minutes

Reflect Notes review (as my primary notes app)

June 19, 2024
Having made Reflect Notes my primary note-taking app, I thought I would share why I profoundly enjoy the application and how it might suit your needs.

Why players love WoW Classic and why older games seem better

June 01, 2024
Recently, I got to try out World of Warcraft Classic after more than a decade since I last played. I had a blast and wondered why those older titles seem more enjoyable than newer games.

The uselessness of lying

May 10, 2024
A few weeks ago a lie from a colleague led me to think again about how common and useless it is.

The negligible impact of purchasing green electricity

April 10, 2024
The negligible impact of purchasing green electricity.

Using Time Machine and Tailscale for remote backups

April 08, 2024
Time Machine and a NAS are great together but used not to work once you leave your network. Using Tailscale, you can now make Time Machine work from anywhere.

Star Trek's beautiful praise of professionalism

February 19, 2024
This excellent two-minute scene from Star Trek demonstrates a level of professionalism and discipline that I aspire to achieve.

Should you localize remote workers' compensation?

January 23, 2024
For the same role and experience, should you adjust the compensation based on the location? This article tries to find what is fairest for employees while making sense for the business.

A principled approach to when businesses should or shouldn't engage in politics

January 11, 2024
Politics will tend to creep into businesses if we let it, but is that a problem? How should we think about the relationship between corporations and activism? This article tries to define a principled and universalist framework to decide when a business should engage in politics.