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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

been baking bread on the regular for about a year and a half now. surprisingly easy to do, it just requires some planning. not as good as the hipster boulangeries in Brussels, but pretty decent and much cheaper

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

oh how the gentle wind beckons through the leaves as autumn colors fall 🍂

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

finished Louise Penny's "Still Life" (2005) this morning. if you like murder mysteries, well, you've probably read it already 😄 but if not, I highly recommend! it's extremely character-driven and beautifully written. surprised me many times, and avoids a bunch of clichés.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Camp Miasma was fun! not for everyone but I had a blast. I should watch TV Glow next 👀 #movies

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kcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past) their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster having seen […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I injured my wrist and cannot work, I'll take recommendations for things to do with one hand no not that

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

playing Dishonored for the first time reminds me of how "Immersive Sim" is such an unhelpful term to describe a genre of game 😅 if you think about it, pretty much all games are immersive simulations

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

hell yeah I did a good take of that song I wrote nearly 5 years ago and still haven't managed to record in a way I like. let's see if I still like that take tomorrow.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@latte hi! I *love* your website. have a great day!!

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

AUTOLOZE ZONDAG 🤘🤘🚲🚲🚲🚲🛴🛹🛼🚋🚶🏾‍♀️🧑🏻‍🦼‍➡️💃🏼🤸🏻 DIMANCHE SANS VOITURES #brussels

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

New blogpost today, almost a year since the last one 🙈 In which I go over the design of a local-first database I've been prototyping, to use as basis for my personal apps. Feedback welcome :] lambein.xyz/substract-local-first

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Substract: ideas for a personal, local-first database — Xavier Lambein's website

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

bad news: insomnia¹ good news: new blog post tomorrow²?? ¹ I think that flat white I had in the afternoon was not decaf 🙃 ² or today, if you want to be pedantic about it

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

me, putting a SQLite database in Dropbox: local-first

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I need to get a new Android phone. Does anyone have recommendations? Also, is it worth looking into getting an alternative OS? I'd love to avoid using Google products, but also if that means I can't use my banking app that's not worth it for me 😅

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sofia ☮️🏴 @sofia.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

> The common name derives from the word jack, denoting "small", and daw, a less common synonym for "jackdaw", and the native English name for the bird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_jackd… ah, so jackdaw means small jackdaw, mmh yes. #birb

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

the 5-year Internet Archive donor sticker on my eBook reader is not the flex it once was 😐

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Remember, their record profits are your unpaid wages

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

big walk but for pair programming. you can only hear each other when your cursors are close together.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

partner and I just finished The Roottrees Are Dead (or at least, the base game). very good investigative game, in the tradition of Obra Dinn and Golden Idol. can recommend, esp. with someone else

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I think wikipedia does this intentionally to taunt people with adhd. Like hold on tell me about the cat

United States Treasury security

"Treasury Bill" redirects here. For the cat, see Rufus of England.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2023

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016) www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#…

Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads:

Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented.

[149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

got my Steam Controller 2 in the mail (I'm quite excited) and I've decided to start a new play-through of Portal 2 to test it. Steam told me the last time I played it was in 2014 🥲 anyway, nobody needs to hear this, but still: what a great game. I missed sassy GLaDOS

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

it's baffling how bad websites are at handling countries with multiple official languages. regardless of my settings, it seems pretty much random whether I will get the French, Dutch, English, or (rarely) German version of an e-mail or website. sometimes multiple related emails will have […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

did you know? the Vs in "VVVVVV" stand for "very fucking hard"

screenshot of a difficult level in VVVVVV

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I must say, I do struggle a lot more these days with being motivated by personal software projects. they've never felt as irrelevant, as waste-of-time, as they do now. fun! but at least I have a good time playing music, reading, and gaming 🤷🏻

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

one by one, slowly getting all my friends to do powerlifting with me >:]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

highly recommend this 20min documentary on queer figure skaters. beautiful and touching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qw7gImGn8U

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

New Sovereign Tech Agency job opening just went live. If you live in Berlin or are able to independently relocate & work there, this is an opportunity to give #opensource maintainers access to deep human expertise: security audits, post-quantum encryption work, Cyber Resilience Act conformance […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

goodbye Finland, you were lovely as always. looking forward to next time 🇫🇮

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

judging from my musical taste in my late teens, I clearly should've been born 10 years earlier and lived my early adulthood in Toronto 🤔 this toot brought to you by re-listening to Broken Social Scene

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Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB @awettesfaiesus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Tale a glimpse into to life of Black people (French source; I’ll provide an English summary): At the 2026 World Powerlifting Championships in Lithuania, Belgian athlete Sonita Muluh lost her chance to win the world title after her final squat attempt (334 kg) was ruled invalid. During the lift […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Looking for (web) app recommendations 🚴🏻 I'm planning a 4-day bike trip (in the Turku archipelago), and I'm looking for some kind of tool to do that. Ideally something where I can input waypoints, points of interest, things to do near each stops, optional detours, and that I can easily share […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

all this extra time I'd have in my life if Wikipedia did not exist

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

carving a stone tool. very WIP, only showing the happy path :D the geometry of this is a bit beyond me. #bevy #paleolithic

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

playing around with signed distance fields to simulate flint knapping for making stone tools. each flake knapped off is a cone that gets subtracted from the ellipsoid. (I've been reading Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes and I'm a bit obsessed) #paleolithic #neanderthal #shadertoy #sdf

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

I'd like to play in a (rock? I guess) band again, but I'm not sure where to start. I no longer know that many musicians in my city, and I have no idea where to find people interested to start (or grow) a band. does anyone have advice to share? also, if you're a musician in #Brussels who'd like […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

:/ aw man I failed my exit interview, they're not gonna let me go

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I spent a while this evening fighting the node JS/TS ecosystem, and I just find myself baffled by how complex it is & how there are no good defaults anywhere. trying to figure shit out lands you on endless pages of SEO garbage and no primary source, no online books or official examples. this is […]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I'm trying to listen to music I love as reference to help me write my own music, but I keep being distracted by how good it is and forget to pay attention ://

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

today I discovered that you can just buy solar panels in a hardware store and plug them into a wall socket 🤯 seems convenient for e.g. a balcony or a small garden.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I'm at nearly 24h waiting for a DNS propagation on a subdomain. is that normal? 😅

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