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I predicted what was going to happen the whole time, and I was happy to be right about most of it. Great to see Dustin Hoffman. I liked Leo Woodall, but there was this low-grade smirk on his face too much of the time. Anyway, thumbs up.

Les habitudes nous permettons à être efficace et à agir sans considérant les détailles chaque fois. Néanmoins, les habitudes doivent changer marginalement ou profondément pour notre développement vertueuse continuel.

En ce sujet là, j’ai commencé à lire et à écrire en Français. Le grand plan est de pratiquer la langue…

I'm considering giving up on my handwritten journal. Even using my favorite fountain pen and ink doesn't help me enjoy writing long entries by hand. I'm impatient, and my handwriting is getting worse, not better. The journal is only one of my notebooks, though, so it abandoning it for digital…

I’m hosting July’s IWBC and the timing is perfect since I split my reading year into to halves, which means I’m starting with an empty shelf in July. The book I picked is “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm.

I read this book now more than 20…

The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 7, I chat with Ana, the author of ohhelloana.blog. We talk about, among other things, the growth we see in our websites over time, finding an in-person indie web community, and connecting with people using…

I can't even describe how beautiful this movie is. Every frame a painting. A Vermeer. The way they look at each other throughout is the greatest thing. This was my 5th or 6th watch and I still can't breath for the last 5 minutes. Astonishing. Crying is allowed. It's unavoidable.

A few weeks ago, I learned about the removeprefix method in Python. It lets you remove a specific prefix from the beginning of a string. For example, I can use the following code to remove www. from the beginning of a domain name:

"www.jamesg.blog".removeprefix("www.")

If…

Representatives from the United States and Iran are already meeting in Switzerland to agree on a permanent end to the war. Many important details remain unknown, though the way things are set is already giving us an indication of what to expect.

Both sides can claim victory. Though it is…