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Lists and Catalogs

I like statistics, especially the ones about myself. Sounds a bit egocentric, but it's more about understanding my own habits and visualise my life as progress. Here you'll find articles I liked, videos I find worth sharing, the gear I use, etc.

Things I like

A living index of objects, ideas and details worth returning to.

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  • Modern art
  • Minimalism
  • Mid Century Modern
  • Retro Futurism
  • Brutalism
  • Nicely engineered products
  • Yellow
  • Pop and electronic music
  • Rain
  • The smell of freshly cut grass
  • Sugar
  • Stats
  • Tech
  • Comic books
  • Sci-fi

Things I dislike

Friction, habits and small details that could be better.

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  • Heat
  • Spicy Food
  • Bad design
  • Ignorance
  • Spiders
  • Spicy food (again)
  • Alcohol
  • Coffee

TV shows I've watched

A watch history with the shows that stayed with me.

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  • The Queen’s Gambit (2x)
  • Chernobyl (3x)
  • Heartstopper
  • SKAM (original version & belgian “wtfock” version)
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty
  • Sex Education
  • Young Royals
  • La Casa de Papel (2x)
  • Squid Game
  • Suits (almost finished, I gave up…)
  • We Crashed
  • Off campus
  • High potential (Season 3 not yet released)
  • Maxton Hall (Season 3 not yet released)
  • For All Mankind (Season 6 not yet released)

Articles and videos

Reading and watching worth passing along.

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August 2026

  • Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
    Reading · Steph Ango

    Easily one of the best article I read this year. In addition to it being really well written, it’s super thoughtful and very relatable. Extremely worth 2 minutes of your time.

March 2026

  • Can robots feel?
    Reading · Science Robotics

    Instead of covering a robot in artificial skin, this research locates touch through a few internal force and torque sensors—even when several contacts happen at once.

  • Apple’s handcrafted Apple TV intro
    Reading · MacRumors

    In a moment flooded with AI-generated imagery, Apple made its new intro with physical materials, cameras, and pure craft. The making-of is the best part.

  • Robots integrated into BMW’s production line
    Reading · Figure AI

    Figure’s robots assisted with more than 30,000 cars—a useful glimpse of humanoid robots becoming genuinely productive in real environments.

  • Art vs technology
    Reading · Kepano on X

    “Technology always finds the next reproducible thing; art always finds the next irreproducible thing.” The best products need both.

February 2026

  • Tesla full self-driving is magic
    Video · Dirty Tesla on X

    FSD navigates a drive-through and reads the complex social choreography—when to wait, when to move—using cameras and a neural network alone.

  • AI’s impact on vehicle safety
    Reading · Tesla

    Tesla’s data reports significantly fewer accidents with FSD engaged. Whatever the caveats, vehicle safety is one domain where AI’s potential impact is concrete.

    These predictions feel surprisingly plausible. Even a quick scan offers plenty of visual inspiration; now to see how many actually happen.

January 2026

  • AI in the job industry
    Reading · Microsoft Research

    A paper scoring how applicable current AI systems are across different careers, from zero to one.

  • This is more than an ad
    Video · Polestar

    One of the best car ads I’ve seen: exceptional motion graphics, precise sound design, and a genuinely surprising edit.

  • Hearing our universe
    Video · Cleo Abram

    Fascinating.

December 2025

  • Anthropic’s Project Vend
    Reading · Anthropic

    Claude Sonnet ran a small shop by itself. The experiment reveals how agents interact with the physical world—and where they still fail.

November 2025

September 2025

  • One of the biggest breakthroughs in AI
    Reading · Kim Isenberg on X

    OpenAI’s o1 introduced reasoning as a practical capability: larger problems solved deliberately, step by step. It changed the trajectory of AI systems.

August 2025

  • Ramanujan the math genius
    Video · Fern

    An overview of Ramanujan’s life and his extraordinary, intuitive contributions to mathematics.

July 2025

  • The incredible design of the ISS
    Video · Fern

    A wonderfully detailed tour of the International Space Station’s design.

  • What is the future of art?
    Video · Answer in Progress

    A thoughtful collection of perspectives on AI art—and on what we mean when we call something art.

  • The “Mac vs PC” era of AI
    Reading · Josh Miller on X

    An interesting framing for the two emerging paths of AI: autonomous agents and deeply personal apps.

  • When your body attacks itself
    Video · Kurzgesagt

    What happens when the immune system designed to protect you turns against you—and why autoimmunity happens.

June 2025

  • Liquid Glass
    Video · Apple Developer

    A clear explanation of Apple’s new design language and its accessibility trade-offs. The process feels closer to designing a physical material than a software skin.

May 2025

  • The objects of our life
    Video · Steve Jobs

    Jobs’s 1983 Aspen talk explains computers, software, and the coming decades with incredible foresight.

  • Automated cleaning
    Reading · Kim Isenberg on X

    Cleaning robots may not sound glamorous, but hygiene is foundational to healthier, longer-living societies.

  • Vulcan robots: the next-generation warehouse
    Reading · Amazon Robotics

    These robots combine vision with touch, letting them pick objects more efficiently without damaging them.

  • A new way to film wildlife
    Video · BBC

    The BBC disguised robotic cameras as dung heaps to capture intimate footage without frightening wild animals. A delightful use of robotics.

April 2025

  • Bill Gates’s 1993 prediction for the future of computers
    Video · BBC

    In 1993, Gates described many of the online innovations that would define the next century. Remarkably prescient.

  • Beyond human training
    Reading · Kim Isenberg on X

    DeepMind’s “Streams” learns directly from the world instead of relying only on human data, opening paths humans might not have imagined.

  • Google’s advantage
    Reading · Amin Vahdat

    Google’s commitment to TPUs gives it control over its AI infrastructure—an integrated bet reminiscent of Apple’s move to its own silicon.

  • The design of mechanical characters
    Video · Disney Research Hub

    A 2013 interactive system that turns articulated digital characters into printable mechanical figures, without requiring engineering expertise.

March 2025

  • Fibonacci in design
    Reading · Luis Ouriach

    A useful alternative to rigid four-pixel spacing systems, using Fibonacci relationships to create hierarchy.

January 2025

  • UI design trends in 2025
    Reading · Souptik Debnath

    A concise survey of the visual directions that shaped interface design in 2025.

Places I've been to

Every country I've visited.

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Drawing the world…

Current status: —
Land surface: —

  • France (where I live)
  • Spain
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Italy (2x)
  • Norway
  • Denmark
  • Sweden
  • UK
  • Ireland

Tech stack and everyday gear

The software, tools and objects I rely on most days.

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Tools & services

Apps

Hardware