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I had a nice relaxing week of holiday in the Austrian Alps.

My MacBook Air, being from early 2020, won’t be able to update to MacOS 26, while showing its old age. I will probably wait until November to upgrade to a new Mac. Maybe a nice back-to-school offer will trigger a purchase sooner.

Despite being a perfect app, I uninstalled GoodLinks, as I can’t keep on collecting links for later while never reading anything via the app: usually, I read most articles right away in Safari or NetNewsWire, so it felt like the app wasn’t used to its full potential. Somehow, I wish GoodLinks could double as an RSS reader…

I’m giving another try to NextDNS on top of my content blocker of choice.

After recently cancelling my Kagi subscription one again in July, I resubscribed yet again today. The search engine is clearly superior to others, and I definitely need this quality in my daily activities. I still find it to be overpriced. I’m sure prices will go down once enough users pay for it, but right now it’s too expensive. The Assistant bundled with the subscription is a nice touch, but not worth something like €17 per month (for two seats). I’d gladly pay something like €5 per month for unlimited search, but €10 is, I think, too high. I’m paying, but I remain at a high risk of churn.

After my recent post on pens, I purchased a few fountain pens (5 already) and now I’m afraid this will lead me to a new obsession and/or to collect too many pens. Focusing on the cheap Japanese options for now: Platinum Prefounte, Platinum Plaisir, or Sailor Highace for example. The Plaisir is my favourite so far, great price, great design and materials. I like this range of Platinum nibs in the 03 (fine) size. There are some quality variations between two similar nibs though: my second fine nib feels smoother than the first one.

I am in still the middle of an anime marathon; in 2025, I finished watching Attack on Titan, and watched Death Note (loved it, my fave so far), GTO (not as good as I remembered; season two is pretty bad), Claymore (fine; I could see a live-action adaptation starring Anya Taylor-Joy coming to life one day), and Solo Leveling which was binge-worthy to the point of feeling manipulated, but still a good, feel-good watch. Just finished Dr. Stone and enjoying it more than I expected. I’ve finished watching Berserk (2017), and I loved it (obviously the source of many Dark Souls inspirations), but the Berserk, the Golden Age (Memorial Edition) from 2022 is a stunning masterpiece, I am now considering buying the whole manga set. Wow. I liked The Unwanted Undead Adventurer too. And now, I am finally watching One Piece.

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Updated 11 Sep 2025・On “now pages”