Articles about code, design, and video.https://aifedespaix.com/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/deepseek-harness-everything-is-a-plugin/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/deepseek-harness-everything-is-a-plugin/DeepSeek Harness, two months in: a plugins-only architecture, four modes, a logged session model, real token prices, and the limits of an MIT preview.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/vectorcraft-open-source-illustrator-rust/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/vectorcraft-open-source-illustrator-rust/VectorCraft, a free vector illustration editor in Rust: pen tool, Pathfinder, SVG and PDF formats, claimed performance, MCP guide and what's still missing.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/wildlife-documentary-staging/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/wildlife-documentary-staging/Editing, captive shoots, added sound: how a nature documentary builds a story from real footage, and why it works so well on us, every single time.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/lightcraft-open-source-lightroom-rust/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/lightcraft-open-source-lightroom-rust/LightCraft, free photo library and RAW developer in Rust: editing, masks, catalogue, claimed performance and an agent guide. Here's what's still missing.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/neutralising-tear-gas-grenade-drill/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/neutralising-tear-gas-grenade-drill/How to neutralise a tear gas grenade in a civil protection drill: bucket, cone, soil or wet cloth, the equipment, the budget and the crew size you need.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/tap-water-treatment-journey/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/tap-water-treatment-journey/Coagulation, filtration, chlorine: the technical path of tap water, what it really costs, and what the bill doesn't say about who pays for what.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/filmcraft-open-source-premiere-pro-rust/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/filmcraft-open-source-premiere-pro-rust/FilmCraft, free video editing in Rust: trims, grading, audio, formats, performance claimed by the project, MCP server and the limits you should know today.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/specialty-coffee-price-chain/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/specialty-coffee-price-chain/From the farmer to the counter, the value of coffee changes hands several times. I followed the route, and the split rarely surprises anyone.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/one-piece-revolt-flag-metaphor/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/one-piece-revolt-flag-metaphor/Why a skull wearing a straw hat circulates in youth protests, what the series says about power and elites, and where the metaphor stops working.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/photocraft-open-source-photoshop-rust/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/photocraft-open-source-photoshop-rust/PhotoCraft, free image editing written in Rust: layers, PSD files, 500 commands for agents, claimed performance, and what's still missing from the project.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/recompiled-games-principle-and-limits/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/recompiled-games-principle-and-limits/Recompiling a game isn't emulating it: fans rewrite its code so it runs elsewhere. Principle, legal limits, risks for players and other sites to know.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/software-obsolescence-hardware-still-works/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/software-obsolescence-hardware-still-works/A machine doesn't break down anymore, it stops being supported. Updates replaced wear, and the device goes to recycling in perfect working order.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/artcraft-open-source-adobe-suite-rust/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/artcraft-open-source-adobe-suite-rust/ArtCraft brings together seven free Rust apps that rebuild Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and their cousins: status, licences, MCP and limits.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/film-noir-money-and-class-on-screen/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/film-noir-money-and-class-on-screen/Behind the trench coats and wet neon, American film noir is mostly about people without money and an exit door that keeps closing on them, always.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/claude-5-5-haiku-sonnet-opus-compared/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/claude-5-5-haiku-sonnet-opus-compared/Haiku, Sonnet and Opus 5.5 compared: price per million tokens, announced benchmarks and use cases to choose the right Claude model, updated October 2026.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/household-cleaners-what-works-what-harms/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/household-cleaners-what-works-what-harms/Bleach, toilet cleaner, laundry detergent, dishwasher tablets: what the products contain, the dangerous mixes, and the gadgets that do nothing.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/information-density-interface-not-always-comfort/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/information-density-interface-not-always-comfort/White space has become a design reflex. On some professional interfaces it mostly forces you to scroll to rebuild what you used to see at a glance, daily.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/claude-sonnet-5-5-what-changed/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/claude-sonnet-5-5-what-changed/Released 28 September 2026, Sonnet 5.5 runs faster and costs less per task. What it changes, what it doesn't fix, and how people have reacted so far.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/rss-still-holds-on-reader-decides/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/rss-still-holds-on-reader-decides/A twenty-year-old XML format, with no account, no algorithm and no ads, still does better for me than a feed sorted for me by a company, every single day.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/ai-game-mashups-minecraft-in-elden-ring/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/ai-game-mashups-minecraft-in-elden-ring/Since late September, modders have been merging two games with AI. Who does it, how long it takes, where to find these projects, and what the scene thinks.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/hand-animation-against-the-assembly-line/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/hand-animation-against-the-assembly-line/A shot drawn frame by frame takes weeks. A shot built for the pipeline takes hours. You can see which one was made, and you can't say exactly why.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/pollination-beyond-the-honeybee/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/pollination-beyond-the-honeybee/Installing hives doesn't save pollinators. Most of the work is done by wild species almost nobody talks about, and some crops depend on them entirely.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/homemade-lacto-fermentation-no-fridge/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/homemade-lacto-fermentation-no-fridge/Cabbage, salt, a jar and patience. Lacto-fermentation keeps vegetables for months without electricity, and the result tastes better than shop-bought.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/coding-with-ai-what-we-gain-and-unlearn/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/coding-with-ai-what-we-gain-and-unlearn/AI autocomplete saves time straight away. It also removes the moments of effort where skill was really being built, and that cost is easy to miss.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/why-time-speeds-up-with-age/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/why-time-speeds-up-with-age/At ten, summer lasts forever; at forty, September arrives right after July. Here is what neuroscience says about why time speeds up, and what helps.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/superhero-blockbuster-formula-and-its-fatigue/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/superhero-blockbuster-formula-and-its-fatigue/Why superhero films look so alike: a calibrated script, a release calendar and assets that must pay off. Forty minutes in, you already know the next scene.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/technical-debt-is-a-decision/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/technical-debt-is-a-decision/We talk about technical debt as if it were a developer's fault. Most of the time it's an economic trade-off made well above the keyboard, by someone else.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/streaming-catalogues-shrink-while-you-pay/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/streaming-catalogues-shrink-while-you-pay/Films vanish from platforms overnight, even ones you bought. A subscription pays for revocable access, never for a copy you keep. Here is how it happens.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/raw-milk-cheese-taste-versus-procedure/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/raw-milk-cheese-taste-versus-procedure/Native flora, pasteurisation, and why raw-milk cheese keeps disappearing from shelves without ever having been banned. Taste against procedure, explained.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/antibiotic-resistance-a-collective-problem-badly-shared/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/antibiotic-resistance-a-collective-problem-badly-shared/Patients are told to finish their course, while most of the problem plays out in farming, drug manufacturing and research that's considered unprofitable.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/serverless-bill-discovered-at-month-end/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/serverless-bill-discovered-at-month-end/Paying per execution looks honest until the day a loop, a bot or a broken cache turns an elegant architecture into a meter that runs on its own.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/modders-keep-alive-games-they-dont-sell/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/modders-keep-alive-games-they-dont-sell/Patches, ports, extensions: some games stay playable thanks to volunteers the publisher thanks in a blog post, and never on an invoice, year after year.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/does-dark-mode-really-save-battery/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/does-dark-mode-really-save-battery/On OLED, black pixels use less power. On LCD, almost nothing changes. What I noticed moving my interfaces to dark, without the myth, and why I kept it.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/fediverse-daily-friction-nobody-mentions/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/fediverse-daily-friction-nobody-mentions/A year on Mastodon: decentralisation keeps its technical promises, but everyday use is paid for in choosing an instance, a shaky search and moderation.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/free-to-play-sells-a-designed-frustration/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/free-to-play-sells-a-designed-frustration/Timers, energy gauges, dual currencies: in a free game the annoyance isn't a balancing flaw. It's the product, displayed on the shelf next to the fix.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/supermarket-seasonality-is-a-logistics-fiction/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/supermarket-seasonality-is-a-logistics-fiction/Strawberries in January, tomatoes in December: the produce aisle no longer follows the seasons, but shipping routes, cold rooms and margins.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/placebo-effect-is-not-a-patients-illusion/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/placebo-effect-is-not-a-patients-illusion/Placebo produces measurable effects that are poorly explained and very convenient for anyone selling care. A tour of the mechanism and its twisted uses.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/running-your-first-home-server-real-cost/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/running-your-first-home-server-real-cost/Hardware, electricity, time spent: what a small self-hosted server really costs at home, once the romance of the project has worn off, month after month.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/speedrunning-reading-a-game-backwards/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/speedrunning-reading-a-game-backwards/Speedrunning takes a game apart from the inside, looks for what the designers didn't plan, and turns a finished work into a field of exploration.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/why-reading-interfaces-imitate-paper/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/why-reading-interfaces-imitate-paper/A look at digital skeuomorphism and our emotional attachment to old objects, and why reading apps still fake page turns and paper textures on screens.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/pulses-the-real-cost-of-a-portion/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/pulses-the-real-cost-of-a-portion/What a portion of lentils really costs next to a portion of meat, why that calculation interests few people in the aisle, and what the hidden cost is.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/why-this-site-is-a-monorepo/https://aifedespaix.com/en/blog/why-this-site-is-a-monorepo/How aifedespaix.com and its future subdomains share code without stepping on each other.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT