The Jolly Teapot
The Jolly Teapot
Nicolas Magand
The Jolly Teapot is the place on the web where I write and comment mainly on software, the internet, Apple, and media news. My name is Nicolas Magand, and I currently live in the Greater Strasbourg area, France.
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This weekend I spent hours tweaking little cosmetic and technical aspects of this blog. I finally managed to change the HTML of the footnotes, which I am happy to say is now an <aside> element and not a <section> element anymore....
At first glance, this post may read like an ad, feel like an ad, but it’s not an ad. It just lists reasons that make me really, really like BBEdit, an app that I have long avoided and considered too complicated and complex for my humble...
Well, August went by in a flash, didn’t it? Time flew by. My two weeks of holiday lasted what felt like five days, including a very relaxing week in the Austrian Alps, where I managed to rest both body and mind, to return to my working...
It’s a good thing I have this format of posts, otherwise this blog may suffer from a lack of regular updates. I have a few drafts currently in the works, and I hope the slower pace of August will allow for some quality time for writing....
After questioning my usage of Safari and wanting to stop using it, it remained my main browser, despite its flaws, including the lack of options when it comes to default search engines.1 Before accepting my fate as a Safari user, I had...
This month, I was not able to write anything for the blog. Not because I didn’t find a topic worth writing about, but rather because too many articles inspired me to write something, which felt a little counter-productive. In the...
The world of the internet stood still. The brains behind the HTML and CSS browser specifications had gone mad. Their decisions — hitting like lightning — had sent shockwaves through the web developer community, the obvious victim of this...
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. 12:01・Described as an “anti-disciplinary creative studio,” 12:01 is the creation of Hassan Rahim. I followed...
I really like OpenAI products. I can certainly appreciate Altman as a company leader (even if there is a dark cloud — and silvery orb — following him seemingly everywhere). Obviously, I admire Sir Jony Ive and most of the products he...