Looking for altitude OpenData

Posted on February 13, 2015 in OpenData • 4 min read

Recently, for a personal project, I looked for opendata for altitude in France. These are not so easy to find, although there are some really good opendata out there, with a very great accuracy. Indeed, OpenStreetMaps provides really accurate opendata for maps (street names and so on), but absolutely nothing …


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Definitely moving to Known

Posted on January 22, 2015 in Phyks • 1 min read

As announced in a previous article, I definitely moved to Known. The new RSS feed is available at https://phyks.me/?_t=rss.

There might be some dead links due to the transition, but the content should still be available at a different URL on this instance.


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Why I am quitting Diaspora?

Posted on January 20, 2015 in Phyks • 8 min read

I tried Diaspora for the last six months or so. I was seeing it as a real potential alternative to Facebook and other social networks. At the time, it was one of the most advanced decentralized social networks I knew about, and there were many people trying it, after some …


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I can now crosspost to Diaspora

Posted on January 18, 2015 in Phyks • 1 min read

Just to say that I am writing a plugin to be able to crosspost to Diaspora from my Known instance.

At the moment, the plugin is quite buggy and supports only the notes and posts. It is available here (mind the case-sensitivity).

Ok, I admit this blog post is just …


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Passage à Known

Posted on 12 January 2015 in Phyks • 1 min read

Cela fait quelques semaines que je teste Known sur mon instance. Je publie systématiquement mes articles aux deux endroits, sur mon blog et sur Known, depuis quelques temps, et je pense migrer définitivement car je suis pleinement satisfait par Known et ne voit pas vraiment l’intérêt de maintenir deux …


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