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 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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18 May 26
On April 30th, Fribourg Gottéron became champion of the Swiss ice hockey National League for the first time. I’ve watched the 2 last games of the series, boy it’s been so close. The scenario of the finale could not have been more intense.
I thought I would give a go to “a single div” exercise with the team’s logo as goal.
This is made with CSS only and using one single div. It’s no perfect match to the original but that was not the intent either. I’ve had fun playing around with this and learned a couple of things along the way.
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11 May 26
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04 May 26
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01 May 26
A piece that hits a chord and I’m definitely not the only one. It’s been shared a lot on my feed.
So well articulated, I feel with the author. This technology is pushing out of the industry bright people. The spread of fear and doubt is just heartbreaking.
The whole system is broken; AI alone didn’t break it, but it is widening the cracks. I guess what I’m trying to say is I wish none of us had to live like this. I would like to imagine a future that does not look like this.
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27 Apr 26
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20 Apr 26
For 6 months, I’ve revived this website. I have since then posted something on every Monday and I’m quite happy with that. There’s something empowering with consistency.
This note is published by a cron job, it’s a first! We are in Italy this week and I wanted neither my publishing streak to break nor my laptop to come along. So having this cron job is cool, that kind of frees brain space to prepare upcoming posts without thinking much about the publishing part of things. I simply set the date in the front matter of the content and at the time of the cron job’s execution it publishes all the content up to that date and time.
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13 Apr 26
For 3 month my baking habits have been rekindled. A 10 minutes drive away from home, we’ve found a lovely mill where I get the white flower. Once a week, I bake bread. That brings so much joy. Life may be that simple.
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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
