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cyprien_g | 6 months ago | on: How to Build a Medieval Castle

I was there when I was a child, maybe 15 years ago. It's amazing to see such a project still running after so many years.

I remember that you could see all the trades explaining how they used to work back in medieval times. Very enlightening.

This article makes me want to go back and see the progress.

cyprien_g | 6 months ago | on: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

I remember participating in the crowdfunding for the last Pebble. I was so excited to receive it, and it was great.

But a few months later, the company shut down, along with support for their products, and it was hard to swallow. This, combined with the fact that the buttons on my Pebble started to fall apart less than a year later (which is when the lack of support became problematic), made the experience pretty bad in the end.

But I’m really excited to see Pebble come back to life, and maybe I’ll be a customer of their watches again in the future.

cyprien_g | 6 months ago | on: Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike

Completely agree with you. I live in Montpellier, France, and we have had free public transportation for a year and a half, and it's very good. I definitely use my car less and take public transport more often.

Everyone, including people without cars, pays for the roads through taxes; it is only fair to do the same for public transport.

cyprien_g | 6 months ago | on: Claude Code is all you need

That’s indeed a valid concern. I set a low rate limit for copilot-api, but I’m not sure if it’s enough.

I may stop my experiment if there is any risk of being banned.

cyprien_g | 6 months ago | on: Claude Code is all you need

I'm a long-time GitHub Copilot subscriber, but I have also tested many alternatives, such as Cursor.

Recently, I tried using Claude Code with my GitHub Copilot subscription (via unofficial support through https://github.com/ericc-ch/copilot-api), and I found it to be quite good. However, in my opinion, the main difference comes down to your preferred workflow. As someone who works with Neovim, I find that a tool that works in the terminal is more appropriate for me.

cyprien_g | 6 months ago | on: Millau Viaduct

I live a 2-hour drive from this, so I have driven on it several times. It's very impressive and always a nice part of the journey.

And it's not only beautiful, it's also very useful. Before it was built, you had to go through small roads and villages, which, in addition to taking more time, was not very comfortable for the people living there.

cyprien_g | 7 months ago | on: Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

The maintenance time is a bit overestimated if you keep it simple.

On my homelab, I update everything every quarter and it takes about 1 hour, so 4 hours a year is pretty reasonable. Docker helps a lot with this.

And I’ve almost never run into trouble in years, so I have very few unexpected maintenance tasks.

EDIT: I am referring to a homelab that is only accessible for private purposes through a VPN.

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