- 𧶠My friend finally received the gift I built for him as part of a Secret Santa, you can see the pictures on my mastodon profile. Iâve tackled a few projects like this in 2024 and itâs been stimulating, although just like programming or I guess any other activity, I drastically underestimated the amount of time it took me.
2025 - Week 03
In 2023, I decided to start writing weekly notes and I ended up posting only 2. Iâm hoping to do better this year, without putting too much pressure on myself either.
Scrobbler, No Scrobbling!
I stopped using Last.fm a while ago for reasons I canât explain without using the shrug emoji. From discovering new artists using recommendations to having a pointless competition with friends about your total number of âscrobbledâ songs, as well as starting to dabble with APIs and building fun stuff, I used to love Last.fm. Today I ran into a post from NilĂ©ane about her Last.fm profile and it made me wanna write about it.
Cheating with rounded percentages and floating-point numbers
My friends are mean sometimes, but as they were making fun of my maths skills, they also pointed to a valid error on the website. On a specific page of Comics-Outmash, a list of percentages are displayed. They looked totally legit, except that once you added them all up, the total was a little bit more than 100%. This is easy to fix if youâre not afraid of massaging the numbers.
I met with GitHub to talk about Copilot
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a GitHub employee working on Copilot. They wanted to talk to users about their paste experience. I donât generally participate to surveys (out of laziness and âI donât have time for thisâ-ness), but because I like GitHub and had a somewhat disappointing experience with Copilot when I tried it earlier this spring, I decided to share my honest feedback. To my surprise, they got back to me to schedule a call.