Hello folks, I hope you are doing well.
Work
We released Cyber Attacks in Times of Conflict Platform #Ukraine. The website is made with Next.js, we followed the hype and used Tailwind (I don't think we will do that again). We use Go for the API and it is deployed on Kubernetes (true story) using a custom Helm Chart. So many buzzwords!
We also updated the theme on our website, we use Krowd with a set of colours and fonts - can we call this "design"? - instead of the same theme ^^ (but it was tweaked in strange ways so we were not able to apply updates).
I converted a few coworkers to matcha, quite proud of that.
In 2023 I'll look into data management and pipelines, quite exciting!
I also became a CxO! We had a lovely intern so I was the Chief Guillaume Officer. We spent 6 months together and it was a lot of fun. We worked together on the following:
- Deployment and configuration of a Moodle platform
- Automatic retrieval and translation of articles from the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine.
- A set of tools to dump data from a website, push it to a database, and an app on top of it to display the content.
Good job Guillaume!
Not work
Lazy year was lazy (well, busy with something more important ^^), so I have not cycled much (but I will in 2023!).
I quit Twitter on May 1st following the acquisition announcement and I don't regret it. This was followed by a set of rules I try to respect to be less "connected". I wrote a bit about this on my French website: Quelques pas vers un monde libre de distractions
I kept on publishing my "News from last month" articles, I think it is useful for a few more people than me. Cool!
I finally took the time to make my MacBook Air (2021, Intel) usable by installing Linux on it (thanks to this). I went with EndeavourOS because I am lazy. I use Arch - almost - btw.
I am still cooking a bit and baking some cakes! I improved on the cookies game, and started playing with some financiers. This will continue in 2023.
Travels
We were able to go to Japan (after a cancellation from Air France the day before because Russia, we went with Etihad) for a few weeks.
I highly recommend going to Japan when tourists are not allowed, we were able to go to the top of Sky Tree and it was almost empty:
We also went to Paris and Lyon to visit some friends and family.
For the summer holidays, we went to Vevey / Montreux, then Gstaad, and Gruyères. We took the Belle Époque train from Montreux to Gstaad because i really like to ride the train:
Entertainment
Music
I have a Rate Your Music account and made a list of nice albums.
My top albums of the year (ordered by release date, not preference):
- Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
- Conway the Machine - God Don't Make Mistakes
- billy woods - Aethiopes
- Wormrot - Hiss
- Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
- black midi - Hellfire
- Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
- J.I.D - The Forever Story
- Nas - King's Disease III
- Ab-Soul - Herbert
Videos
I have a letterboxd account
Movies I liked:
- Aftersun
- Alien (yes, finally)
- Clerks III
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Feels Good Man
- Final Cut (remake of One Cut of the Dead)
- Little Fish
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Mad Heidi (saw it at the theater, tons of fun!)
- Man Up
- Nope
- The Bad Guys
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- The Green Knight
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Sound of Metal
- Vengeance
And a bunch of "old" classics:
- American Graffiti
- Cinema Paradiso
- Double Indemnity
- His Girl Friday
- Of Mice and Men
- Some Like It Hot
- Sunset Boulevard
- To Kill a Mockingbird
TV shows I watched / continued:
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine - finally watched the whole thing!
- Fringe - seasons 1 and 2, ongoing.
- Hawkeye
- Loki
- Moon Knight
- Ozark
- Rick and Morty
- Severance
- Slow Horses
- Stargirl
- Stranger Things
- The Afterparty
- The Boys
- The Peripheral
- The Resort
- What We Do In The Shadows
I want to see:
Books
I don't have much time for this, but here we go:
- 20th Century Boys for the 4th time.
- Monster
- and a bunch of other things...
In French:
- Dormir sans larmes
- Les tout-petits face aux écrans
- Mes seins, mon choix ! Pourquoi l'allaitement divise les féministes ?
Games
Nothing much, last year I started Cyberpunk 2077, made a pause for a few weeks, which became a pause for a few months.
I finally started GTA 5!
Happy new year!
Happy New Year to all those who will have a good year. Good luck and hang in there for the others, 2024 will be there promptly.
If you are still reading, know that I love you very much. Let's end this with a lovely song: