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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 30/09/2026

"Occasional" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 24/09/2026

Moi j'ai ca sinon (mais pas de manuel d'entretien de machine à laver non plus):

Cover of a book by Sarah Andersen, titled "Adulthood is a myth".
We see the character in an oversized pullover followed by a rabbit

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 23/09/2026

J'aime bien l'image de la boite magique. De fait on en est là. C'est un outil qui a du sens mais uniquement si un humain peut valider ses résultats... Donc côté "l'IA pour savoir si c'est de l'IA", c'est mal barré.

3 panel comis from Aram J. French.
First: Two guys are facing each other. One says "We invented a robot that answers questions"
Second: Zoom out, we see that the speaking guy has a robot behind him. He continues "We just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day"
Third panel: Second guy: "But it answers the questions correctly?". First guy: "Oh my goodness no. No no no no no"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 25/08/2026

So people pay LinkedIn for "targeted advertising", right? That seems to work super well

A linkedIn ad sent to me (a software developer) for registering to China Annual Conference for International Education in Beijng

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 04/08/2026

L'enfant de 11 ans est en stage patisserie. Il nous ramène le gouter.

Un biscuit de la forme d'un petit beurre, bleu vif avec écrit dessus en encre alimentaire rouge "6 7"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 18/06/2026

Je ne suis pas confiant dans le fait que ce train fonctionne vu son organisation

Un panneau informatif d'une gare indiquant qu'un train vers dinant arrive. Un schéma du train est présent en dessous avec les différents wagons et les places vélos. Ce qui semble être la locomotive est à l'avant mais tournée vers le wagon qui la suit

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 25/05/2026

Donc je suppose que techniquement ses roues ne sont pas sur les marques... mais je ne suis pas sur qu'il aurait fait pareil si c'était une voiture et pas un parking vélo devant. J'ai réussi à rentrer/sortir, mais c'est juste.

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 30/04/2026

Tu leur a demandé si Bordeaux c'était quand on avait été gentils ou méchants? Tes gamins c'est Calvin et Hobbes:

A Calvin and Hobbes strip in four panels.
- Calvin and Hobbes are relaxing in the grass. Calvin asks "I wonder where we go when we die"
- We see them from behind the hill, there is a silence
- Hobbes answers "Pittsburgh ?"
- From behind again, Calvin asks "You mean if we're good or if we're bad?"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 14/01/2026

That's a good one - I was actually looking for the version 8.1 of the PHP programming language

A screenshot from the DuckDuckGo search engine, with "php 8.1" as the query and the answer showing that 8.1 Philippine Pesos are worth 0.12 Euro

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 20/11/2025

My team & I just finished our first sailboat retrospective and I'm not sure we did it the right way, anyone can help? #agile

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 15/10/2025

Mandatory @xkcd.com. May not be enough money, but same vibes.

A comic from xkcd. First panel a genie tells the character "You have awakened me from the lamp, you may have three wishes. What does your hear desire". The character answers "I'd like a human sized hamster ball".

On the four next panel the character plays inside the ball saying "Sweet!".

On the last panel, the genie asks "And your other wishes ?" to what the character answers "Why would I need other wishes?"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 06/08/2025

#1 Parlez d'argent Discutez de votre salaire avec vos collègues - ne pas le faire n'aide aucun d'entre vous. Venez demander une augmentation (avec vos notes sur les projets effectués). Lié: être dev parce que le secteur paie bien est valide. Lien: www.joyouscoding.com/posts/you-ar...

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 04/08/2025

Trouvé sur la carte d'un resto du côté de Boulogne, j'aime bien

Une carte de restaurant marqué "menu enfant". Deux colonnes, avec des flèches entre celle de gauche et de droite:

- Je ne sais pas: Nuggets
- J'ai pas faim: Poisson pané
- M'en fiche: Moules
- J'en veux pas: Jambon

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 17/07/2025

Un collègue: Je suis sur la feature X et j'ai un truc qui ne fonctionne pas Moi, devant MixPanel

Une main noire sur un parchemin avec en dessous "We know" ("nous savons") screenshot du jeu vidéo Skyrim

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 19/05/2025

One of those options feels... different

Screenshot from a repo on GitLab with proposals:
- Add LICENCE
- Add CHANGELOG
- Add CONTRIBUTING
- Add Kubernetes cluster

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 08/05/2025

Bonus, se rappeller à quel point Bruxelles est vert - de parc en début de campagne en forêt de Soignes, la majorité du trajet est vraiment agréable (si pas toujours pratique côté revêtement - pavés et autres)

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 08/05/2025

Donc j'ai fais Anvers - Gand et j'ai découvers mon premier escalator à vélo (pour passer sous l'Escaut à Anvers)

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 14/04/2025

Always thinking of this quote "The problem with the tech industry is that we see ourselves as the Rebel Alliance, but we've become the Empire". Looks like Palentir is just more at ease with that than others. This is chilling.

A Palentir ads that they'll run near colleages with as text "A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palentir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we field to dominate.

Join us.

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 04/04/2025

Some wikipedia pages are just... something else: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ea-n%C4...

A screenshot of the Wikipedia page about Ea-nasir with: Born 18th century BC, occupation Mesopotomian merchant, known for: selling bad copper.

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 03/03/2025

On en est toustes là je pense (je viens de jouer à comparer deux URLs pour constater que j'avais envoyé les mauvais paramètres...)

Software Development Process:
0. I can't fix this
1. Crisis of confidence
2. Question career
3. Question life
4. Oh it was a typo, cool

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 18/02/2025

Site popup win (pas d'option "Non")

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 23/01/2025

Sam Altman swearing fealty to Donald Trump + a plan of 500B of investment in AI for "strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies" (openai.com/index/announ...) is scary as hell - not only for the US ennemies - but mainly for its own citizens.

Twitter screenshot of Sam Altman saying "watching Potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (I wish I had done more of my own thinking and definitively fell in the NPC trap). I'm not going to agree with him on everything, but I think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 22/01/2025

OK if someone is on LinkedIn "for personal goals" you need better goals.

A screenshot from LinkedIn asking "Which of these best describes your primary goal for using Premium?". Options are: "For my personal goals", "For my job" and "Other"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 18/01/2025

J'allais mettre un commentaire mais je pense que ce serais redondant. C'était supposé être de l'humour - c'en était à l'époque je suppose

Un Calvin et Hobbes (en anglais): Calvin: "I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me and generally foster divisieness, cynicism and a lower level of public dialog."
Hobbes: "It would seem you were born for the job".
Calvin: "Imagine getting paid to act like a six-year old!"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 08/01/2025

Error page found on a Belgian firefighter site.

Text saying: "Whoops, something went wrong. We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 07/01/2025

From the Financial Times, about Bitcoin - www.ft.com/content/8533...

FInancial Times Alphaville article excerpt:

"FTAV posts between June 2011 and today may have communicated the idea that bitcoin is a negative-sum game being played on a protocol that's very clever and hypothetically useful as a unit of account, but is chronically inefficient as a conventional means of exchange and is compromised as a store of value. Our posts may also have promoted the idea that the price of a bitcoin is an arbitrary hype gauge that's disconnected from any utility the token may have, because it's trivial to duplicate the utility provided by said token, so any intrinsic worth comes from the sunk costs of infrastructure alongside intangibles like regulatory acquiescence, interconnectedness with mainstream financial systems it was once sold as being the antidote to, and the souvenir attraction of "being the first"
We stand by every single one of those posts.
Nevertheless, with bitcoin's price recently crossing $100,000, a significant number of commenters seem to feel they deserve an apology in light of our longstanding cynicism, so here it is:
We're sorry if at any moment in the past 14 years you chose based on our coverage not to buy a thing whose number has gone up. It's nice when your number goes up. And we're sorry if you misunderstood our crypto cynicism to be a declaration of support for tradfi, because we hate that too.

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 26/12/2024

Starting to learn Flutter (so far, pretty nice) and I wanted some Dart code katas (small exercises to build your "muscle memory" in a language). Not exactly what I was looking for, but pretty nice

An amazon page for a book named "Dart Kata: Martial Art Routines for Darts". Image is a guy throwing a dart.

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 09/12/2024

I love the summary as it appear here:

Article title: Rachel Reeves says closer UK and EU ties will boost economic growth
Description: "Labor has ruled out rejoining the European Union but wants to"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 25/11/2024

Age yourself with your first computer

A picture of a Commodore 64 - it looks like a big beige keyboard

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 12/11/2024

My colleague and I are big fan of clear commit messages

A screenshot of a list of pull request on GitHub. The first one is "Fix for the fix :D". The second just "doh".

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 08/11/2024

Une bonne façon d'apprendre à se connaître ici ! Présentez-vous avec : Un livre 📚 Un film 🎥 Un album 💿 Une série télé 📺

Couverture du roman "Ronde de nuit" de Terry Pratchett. On y voit des gardes de taille variable dans une ruelle.

Affiche du film "Holy Grail" des Monty Python. On voit Arthur entouré de ses fidèles chevaliers, un lapin en bois et autres.

Couverture de l'album "Sounds of Silence" de Simon & Garfunkel

Couverture de la série "Firefly" de Joss Whedon. On y voit l'équipage au complet et le vaisseaux dans le fond

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 31/10/2024

Thanks guys, got 5 new workspaces using it, I see good work in progress (I have logs, but with just search word, image found and a hash of the workspace name - in other words I've no idea who you are and I don't care)

A screen shot of 9 images of birds. Each image has a title which is the search term used, and the text of the image itself:

- Fuck: "what did you fuck up now"
- Work: "fuck work"
- Tired: "This shit makes me tired"
- Fuck it: "Fuck it I'm not cooking dinner"
- No: "No"
- Today: "Can today bullshit at least be different from yesterday bullshit"
- Fuck you: "I like it better when you shut the fuck up"
- Stop: "Can we stop talking and actually fucking do something"
- Bird: "Fuck this early bird business"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 23/10/2024

Un peu pareil. Au point où je me retrouve à devoir dire à des jeunes dev (dans mon secteur): "Rappel: les RH ne sont pas vos amis/alliés". C'est regrettable, mais c'est comme ca.

A guy with a white TShirt "Defund Human Resources". A subtext says "Coworker got in trouble yesterday and showed up wearing this today" with two laughing smileys at the end

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 18/09/2024

CSI: Préparation de la purée. Peut tu trouver la victime, l'auteur et l'arme du crime?

Photo d'une table avec une nappe. En haut a droite une main d'enfant avec un sparadrap sur le doigt. Une planche avec des patates pelées. Deux couteaux économes. Un paquet de sparadrap "super héros".

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 31/08/2024

"Dites le avec du Landsat" - landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam... (ie, donnez un nom, la Nasa vous l'écrit à partir d'image satellite de sa base de données)

6 image satellites côte à côte, chacune figurant une lettre formant Martin

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 11/04/2024

J'aime bien la version de Calvin là dessus

A small images out of the comics "Calvin and Hobbes". Calvin is on the ground, after being probably beat up. He says "My whole problem is my lips move when I think"

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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 03/04/2024

Is it still a coworking space if I'm alone inside?

Picture of a modern looking coworking space, with a laptop and coffee mug on the foreground. There is no one in the room.

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