Hello, I'm Valentin, a programmer. I live with Nicole my wife in a village close to Bern, Switzerland.
This is my personal website where I post all my articles notes photos and reviews. I like to write about my running adventures too, it's in french over runboyrun.ch .
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10 Apr 26
Polished and well structured walkthrough in this article on building a movie collection in HTML and CSS.
I like the conclusion:
I’m really happy with the result – not just the final page, but how well I understand it. CSS can be tricky to reason about, and writing this step-by-step guide has solidified my mental model.
That’s exactly the kind of benefits I experience after having completed the CSS for JS Developers course from Josh I’ve written about lately.
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06 Apr 26
NASA/Reid Wiseman, high-resolution version here and other details on NASA's Image and Video Library Last time I posted a photo of our planet was when Bill Anders passed. It was a retweet. Sixty years have passed between the two shots. Each one makes me pause and appreciate how tiny we are.
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30 Mar 26
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26 Mar 26
Terrific job of composition. I recommend to read this, not on a too wide window so to enjoy a fuller version of the illustrations. The Plains of Heaven by John Martin made me pause, such a beautiful piece 🤩
Bespoke, endlessly tweaked, eternally redesigned, built-in-public, surprising UI and delightful UX. The personal website is a staunch undying answer to everything the corporate and industrial web has taken from us.
Thorough–and so nice looking–stand around the question why having your own website.
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23 Mar 26
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19 Mar 26
A moving introspective from Ana Rodrigues about the seemingly unstoppable nocive effects of AI.
They (and so am I) are disgusted by the lack of ethics, environmental consequences, the horrible uses of AI on the daily, horrible companies, horrible people. And we are looking around and everyone else is eating it up and enjoying it. This is the tipping point. And I get that.
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16 Mar 26
Met those cute small girls, peacefully grazing. Had the idea to go back to this place, it’s years I’ve been there on a run. Part of nature reserve, we’ve had a lovely walk.
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09 Mar 26
As getting the data from Strava and transforming it is now solved, what’s left is styling the spakline and making it part of an automated publishing process.
By using
salandjqas explained in the last 2 articles, I get a list of points. I can simply visualize the those points, as a sparkline, like so:<svg> <polyline transform="translate(0,30), scale(1, -1)" points="0,5 3,8 6,6 9,6 12,7 15,5 18,3 21,11 24,2 27,11 30,8 33,11 36,12 39,13 42,7 45,15 48,5 51,14 54,16 57,21 60,13 63,21 66,21 69,24 72,11 75,6 78,8 81,8 84,5 87,15 90,5 93,4 96,3 99,4 102,2 105,3 108,3 111,4 114,2 117,2 120,4 123,4 126,3 129,3 132,6 135,4 138,8 141,6 144,8 147,7 150,6 153,6" fill="transparent" stroke="#aaa"> </polyline> </svg>I simplified a tiny bit but the important part is those
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02 Mar 26
I have a few decorative SVGs on this website here. How does it fare using a screen reader?
I thought I would quickly try after reading Put aria-hidden=true on decorative SVGs.
On my MacBook, still running Sequoia (for as long as possible), none of LibreWolf, Safari, Chrome or Edge announced the SVG from the header on the homepage of jacquemin.ch.
I’m still going to fix that and add
aria-hidden=true. I realized that some image tags would benefit from analtdescription too. The usual and too easy mistake.2 shortcuts I’ve learned along the way:
- Ctrl-F5 toggles VoiceOver
- Ctrl-Opt A reads the entires webpage
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23 Feb 26
