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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.

I recently cancelled my Kagi subscription again. The search engine is clearly superior to others, and I definitely need this quality in my daily activities, but I 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 €3 to maybe €5 per month for unlimited search, but not €10.

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 31 Aug 2025・On “now pages”