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osxphotos looks like a blessing to manage iPhoto library. The same applies to imessage-exporter. #apple

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015.

So, while I agree that it’s wrong to generalise that ‘Perl 6 killed Perl’, I would say that Perl 6 was a symptom of the irreconcilable internal forces that killed Perl. Although, I also intend to go on to point out that Perl isn’t dead, nothing has actually killed Perl. Killed Perl is a very stupid way to frame the discussion, but here we are. Perl’s decline was cultural

I’ve seen a number of editors grow popular and then wane. At various times I’ve seen Emacs, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Atom, SlickEdit, gedit, Notepad++, Sublime, NetBeans, Visual Studio, Xcode, IDLE, PyCharm, Android Studio, and more. Some of those aren’t around any more. I’m not worried about Vim getting eaten by a big tech company, or enshittified to feed advertising or AI ambitions. — Choosing Vim over VSCode

Quai de la Garonne, Toulouse, Dec. 2025

/me is listening to “If I wanted someone” by Dawes

System Reliability and Six Sigma in R and Python.

Modeling temporal data with an unknown number of changepoints. #python

There seems to be some resurgence into the old web now, time will tell if it gains any real ground. It’s an uphill battle: Besides most online eyeballs now being glued to social media apps, we’re seeing AI take over the way people interact with the internet altogether. Back in the old days if you wanted to know more about something you’d google the term and start going through the websites Google said are most relevant. — Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the void