One of my hobby is to use extremely accurate, outdated, uncommon words, and often, put a twist on them. As a friday rewards, here are a few words that you can start using that will make your colleagues instantly love or hate you, there will be no more in-between! Expect some fun words, all with …
Author: Florent Revelut
Référencement
La belle mère de ma soeur a un site de randonnée qui a changé d'adresse et peine à se faire référencer, il semble donc une bonne idée pour que les gens qui veulent faire des ballades en Auvergne découvrent https://www.chateldonrando.fr/, le seul et unique site pour faire de la randonnée autour de Châteldon. À noter …
A drama in too many acts
Welcome to a tragic story, played in multiple acts. It involves cries, tears, angers, but eventually, all is good. So American movie, not French.The story starts like this: I had to do an unplanned trip to Canada, for work related topic. I ended up booking a 10 days trip, which was already challenging due to …
Easily Charge Your Yamaha MT-07 Battery with BMW Charger
I happen to have a Yamaha MT-07, whose battery has seen better days. As a direct consequence of this, starting the bike after a few weeks of sitting in garage is pretty challenging. Unmounting the battery is doable, but requires ~15 minutes of wrenching, which is not ideal for using the bike opportunistically (and has …
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First track day
A few days ago, I did my first track day ever. For people unaware, a track day is basically driving on a race track, in my case with a motorcycle. It's different from a race, it's more about training / measuring against the chronometer. I did lots of research (it's stressful) and wanted to write …
I’m still alive
Due to popular demand (in my head; let's be honest: no one cares), I've decided to revive this website and start posting semi-regularly. Why? Many reasons: Twitter has been taken over by an egocentric maniac. It was one of my haven, and it's not any more. So I put my account in sleep mode, so …
Cool Stuff Friday
Another Friday, another list of cool stuff that I've read this week (I know it's tuesday, let's pretend the week was long): Aputure released new lights. I have cheap chinese lights, I've been thinking for a long time about upgrading, I'm really struggling top not click "buy now" Sarah Maddox, who happens to be a …
Cool stuff Friday
A good friend of mine has this concept of "cool stuff day", which is a summary of stuff she read and liked and want to share. It can be in any direction, from tech paper to reddit posts. I read and watch lots of things online and I decided to steal the concept. Welcome to …
Crypto and kids
I was nerd-sniped (reference from xkcd) by a colleague who wanted to do a cryptographic game for his kids, for a birthday party. The idea was to have a device to allow the kids to encrypt / decrypt a message Principle It's using the Caesar cipher, which is a simple shift cipher. It's super unsafe …
From a cheap crate to a treasure chest
For my kids birthday, my wife wanted to organize a treasure hunt. The idea was to have a bunch of indices, that would eventually leading to getting 4 numbers, used to unlock a paddlock holding chains around a chest. While the idea seems sound, devils in the detail as we wanted the cost to be …
Bruce's hideout 