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Tuned to 3142

The same ordered pair — 31, then 42 — turned up twice in a few days. The arithmetic explains the frequency. It doesn't explain the listener.

The Code Room · EN

Auto-copy files when creating Git worktrees or Jujutsu workspaces

A simple pattern for automatically copying ignored files like .env into new Git worktrees or Jujutsu workspaces, using your .gitignore as the copy list.

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Self-hosted analytics: How to track 53% more views

Last month, I released a new project. I was able to track 53% more views by replacing Cloudflare Web Analytics with a self-hosted solution (Plausible).

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Become a git stash pro

git stash is a very useful feature in git allowing you to 'stash' away changes for later. This post goes over the most common commands and tricks.

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

React Query + Axios for authentication

React Query is a great library. It provides an API similar to the Apollo GraphQL client, but in a backend-agnostic design. This post looks into hooking up the Axios HTTP library to authenticate API calls.

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Flutter JSON vs Protocol Buffer: Benefits and performance

As discussed in the last post on Flutter JSON decoding performance, we saw that parsing JSON on the main thread is usually the right choice. Today, we'll look at Protocol Buffers to increase performance further.

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Flutter JSON parsing: What is the fastest?

Flutter, Google's portable UI framework, uses Dart for application code. My question today: What is the fastest way to parse JSON in Flutter?

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Cloud Run + Cloud Build for Monorepos

Cloud Run is a "serverless container compute platform" running on Google Cloud. We'll look into setting it up with a monorepo with Next.js and Node.js, with continuous delivery from GitHub.

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Beta Lister Release

Today I'm releasing an Android application named Beta Lister. It lists all available beta versions of installed applications on your device. Download available now.

Cretezy — Technology & Programming · EN

Jane Austen Walking Tour of Bath

Step into Jane Austen’s Bath… (the city – not the tub). This self-guided walking tour leads you through the streets she knew, the places she lived and the world that found its way into her novels. The post Jane Austen Walking Tour of Bath appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

Curious History Review: September 2026

What do Jane Austen, shell-shocked soldiers, Florentine monks, coca leaves and champagne have in common? Not a lot at first glance – except that they’ve all found their way into this month’s newsletter. The post Curious History Review: September 2026 appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

Bath’s Jane Austen Festival: Books, Balls, and Bonnets

During the Jane Austen Festival, Bath celebrates its favorite author. It’s the largest Jane Austen festival in the world, and it attracts visitors from across the globe for a lively mixture of literature, history, music, dancing, and bonnet-wearing. The post Bath’s Jane Austen Festival: Books, Balls, and Bonnets appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

A Tragic Medieval Bedtime Story: The Chatelaine of Vergy

The walls of a medieval Italian palace tell this 13th-century French tale of courtly love, secrets, and tragedy. It almost reads like a modern soap opera – except there is more death. The post A Tragic Medieval Bedtime Story: The Chatelaine of Vergy appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

How Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Made the World See Vincent Van Gogh

Imagine inheriting hundreds of paintings that nobody wanted – by an artist almost nobody had heard of. That was Johanna van Gogh-Bonger’s situation in 1891 – and what she did about it helped change the course of art history. The post How Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Made the World See Vincent Van Gogh appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

Curious History Review: October 2026

From The Starry Night and the woman who made Vincent van Gogh famous to a tragic medieval love story in Florence and the origin of King Arthur’s Round Table – this month’s review travels across centuries. The post Curious History Review: October 2026 appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

Following the Medici Tortoises Through Florence

In Florence, you’ll find some unusual tortoises associated with the Medici family, and they all have stories to tell. The post Following the Medici Tortoises Through Florence appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

Why Michelangelo Hung Mattresses from a Bell Tower

During the siege of Florence, the man who sculpted the David found himself defending a church tower with some very unlikely materials. The post Why Michelangelo Hung Mattresses from a Bell Tower appeared first on Margo Lestz - The Curious Rambler .

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler · EN

Speeding Up Checkout in a Fast-Growing Monorepo with Blacksmith

We swapped actions/checkout for Blacksmith's cached checkout across our GitHub Actions. Mean checkout time dropped from 69s to 20s, reclaiming ~33 hours of runner time each weekday.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

Visualizing Garmin Data and Building a Personal AI Training Assistant

How I turned Garmin activity data into self-hosted Grafana dashboards and connected an AI agent through MCP to act as my personal training assistant.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

Surgical Transitive Updates with pnpm: audit --fix

pnpm's audit --fix can now update vulnerable transitives directly in the lockfile instead of reaching for overrides first, and it even plays nicely with minimumReleaseAge. Let's dig in.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

The Bun CVE Gap, Closed: Surgical Updates Land in Bun 1.4

Three months ago, I wrote that Bun was the only mainstream package manager that couldn't do surgical CVE remediation. Bun 1.4 ships in-place transitive updates, bun audit fix, and nested overrides. Time to re-run the original reproductions.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

Enforcing Best Practices with Jev as a Linter

Agents write most of our code now, and they respond to checks far more reliably than to documents. I turned a best practice written in plain English into a lint rule with Jev and Oxlint, annotated inline in GitHub pull requests.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

The Bun Dependabot Gap: Dependabot Alerts Don't See bun.lock

GitHub's dependency graph doesn't read bun.lock yet, so in Bun projects Dependabot alerts only cover what's written in package.json, and never a transitive dependency. Here's how to check if you're affected, and how I closed the gap with a GitHub Action.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

Your Infrastructure Belongs Next to Your Code: Moving bilan to Alchemy

Agents moved bilan from a Wrangler config to Alchemy in a day. Every pull request now gets its own copy of the app, production never went down, and the whole system lives in one typed file. Here are the principles that made it worth it.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN