About this blog

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.

You can also see what I am doing now, check some of my old articles published elsewhere, or listen to my favourite songs.

Front-facing black and white medium close-up photo of Nicolas Magand, wearing glasses, with a beach in the background.

The tech behind this site

This site is built using Eleventy and hosted on xmit.

More details on the technology I am using.

Featured entries

Maybe news websites can stop embedding tweets now

Why are static site generators so complicated to use?

Why I like monospaced fonts

Should I remove this blog from Google Search?

On reliable technology

The wonderful rabbit hole of BBEdit

Blogroll

I don't have a blogroll. I find them difficult to maintain, and I always forget someone. I think they are cool, but I never manage to create one with which I am completely satisfied. I will quote John Gruber to explain what I do instead:

If you want to know which weblogs I recommend, just pay attention to the sites I link to.

I can also recommend the list of blogs orbiting the great People and Blogs project.

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