J’ai arrêté de me battre avec Plex et Jellyfin, alors j’ai fait mon propre truc

Posted by on September 1, 2026 No comments

Ça fait des années que je stocke mes films sur ma Freebox. Un gros dossier, des fichiers posés là au fil du temps, un bordel organisé que moi seul comprends. Le rêve, c’était de sortir mon téléphone dans le canapé, de voir mes films avec les affiches, les résumés, le casting, et d’appuyer sur lecture. Sans réfléchir.

J’ai essayé de faire ça proprement. Vraiment.

L’épisode Plex

J’ai installé Plex. Serveur à configurer, compte à créer, bibliothèques à déclarer, agents de métadonnées à régler. Au bout d’un moment ça marchait à peu près. Et puis il fallait payer pour débloquer des trucs de base, l’appli poussait des recommandations de contenus que je n’avais pas, et l’interface donnait l’impression d’être un service de streaming qui se trouvait juste héberger mes fichiers au passage. J’avais installé un logiciel pour regarder MES films et j’avais l’impression d’être un client.

L’épisode Jellyfin

Alors Jellyfin. Open source, pas de business model louche, communauté sympa. Sur le papier parfait. En pratique : Docker, volumes, chemins réseau, permissions, reverse proxy si tu veux y accéder de l’extérieur, certificats… J’y suis arrivé parce que je bricole. Mais quand ma copine a voulu regarder un film pendant que j’étais pas là, elle a abandonné au bout de deux minutes. Et je la comprends. Ce n’est pas un problème d’intelligence, c’est un problème d’outil : ces machins sont conçus pour des gens qui aiment administrer des serveurs. La plupart des gens veulent juste voir un film.

Ce que je voulais, en fait

Une appli sur mon iPhone. Elle se connecte à ma Freebox. Elle scanne le dossier. Elle reconnaît les films toute seule, va chercher les affiches et les infos, et me montre une belle bibliothèque. J’appuie, ça joue. Même quand je suis pas chez moi. Zéro serveur à maintenir, zéro compte, zéro abonnement pour les fonctions de base.

Personne ne faisait ça. Donc j’ai fini par le faire en vibe codant l’application sans connaissance de Swift.

Bobiné

Bobiné, c’est exactement ça et rien d’autre. Tu appaires ta Freebox une fois (le jeton reste dans le trousseau de ton téléphone, il ne part nulle part). L’appli parcourt tes
dossiers, identifie tes films, récupère affiches, synopsis et casting via TMDliothèque qui ressemble à une vraie médiathèque — pas à un panneaud’administration.

Quelques trucs auxquels je tiens :

  • Ça marche à distance. Accès HTTPS à ta Freebox depuis n’importe où, sans que tu aies à monter quoi que ce soit.
  • La lecture s’adapte au fichier. MP4 propre : lecteur natif avec AirPlay. Fo intégré. Tu n’as pas à savoir lequel, l’appli choisit et se corrige touteseule si elle s’est trompée.
  • Un scan interrompu reprend où il en était. Tu vois les vignettes apparaîtreibliothèque à moitié enrichie, c’est normal, pas un bug.
  • Un film déplacé garde ses infos et sa position de lecture après un rescan. Détail invisible, mais c’est ce qui fait que ça reste agréable dans le temps.
  • Rien n’est collecté. La seule permission demandée, c’est l’accès au réseau s de compte, pas de tracking.
  • Le cœur est gratuit. Un achat unique (pas d’abonnement) débloquera les téléchargements hors-ligne pour les voyages.

Petite précision légale que je tiens à écrire noir sur blanc : Bobiné n’est pas affilié à Free / Iliad. C’est une appli indépendante qui utilise l’API publique de Freebox OS.

La bêta est ouverte

L’appli est finie et stable, mais avant de la publier sur l’App Store je veux la faire tourner sur d’autres Freebox que les miennes, avec d’autres façons de nommer les fichiers, d’autres tailles de bibliothèque. C’est là que j’ai besoin de vous.

Si vous avez une Freebox, des films dessus et un iPhone sous iOS 18+, rejoignez le test de l’application.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/kNV295nE

Ça prend deux minutes : vous installez TestFlight, vous ouvrez le lien, vous m’intéresse le plus : est-ce que le scan identifie bien vos films ? Est-ceque la lecture passe, à la maison comme à l’extérieur ? Tout ce qui coince, vous pouvez me l’envoyer directement depuis TestFlight (capture d’écran incluse).

Le site avec toutes les infos et les mentions légales : https://bobineapp.fr

Merci d’avance à celles et ceux qui testeront. C’est un projet que je construis pour un problème que j’avais vraiment, et savoir qu’il règle le même problème chez vous, ce serait déjà gagné.

Ah et oui ! Il y aura une version Android et Android TV.

Double Edge of Tech Obsession: Finding My Focus

Posted by on April 24, 2025 No comments

For more than two decades, I’ve had a daily ritual: scanning tech news to catch the latest trends in the web industry. Hacker News quickly became my go-to source—it’s by far my favorite daily read. Every day, an endless stream of fascinating articles gets shared, covering every imaginable topic. The sheer variety constantly fuels my curiosity, sometimes leaving me deep in thought during any spare moment—and, admittedly, occasionally a little lost in those thoughts.

This constant exposure is also a wellspring of creativity. The “Show HN” section, for instance, is where people put their passion projects and prototypes out into the world, seeking feedback or just engaging with the community. Watching these creators share what they’ve built is incredibly motivating. It keeps my outlook positive and sparks new ideas almost daily.

But there’s a flipside: news burnout. I’ve found myself endlessly consuming content, almost addicted to the flow of updates. Take a look at the weekly screen time report on my iPhone and Mac—my top app is NetNewsWire: rock-solid, lightning-fast, totally free, and always quietly working in the background. It’s almost too easy to get caught up in this constant feed.

There’s a parallel in how we use Instagram. Have you ever fallen into the trap—scrolling through Reels, only to look up and realize you’ve lost hours to random, forgettable content? I was always wary of Instagram for privacy reasons and its tendency toward overexposure. Still, a few years ago, my wife started sending me Reels—fun snippets about our projects or memories. Before I knew it, checking Reels became a routine, especially after I’d finished reading the day’s news. Sometimes I’d use Instagram to hunt for ideas, whether for house makeovers or just cool things to build—but their algorithm is engineered to keep you hooked. Two hours later, you come up empty-handed, with nothing actionable to show for it.

I’ve realized that being efficient in daily life relies on three things:

  • Allocated, focused time
  • A distraction-free environment
  • Regular breaks between tasks

For a while, I had none of these. I kept piling more onto my schedule. About six months ago, I made the decision to slow down, reclaim focused time, and breathe a little deeper. My goal: accomplish things in a more intentional, targeted way. Yet, I noticed another crucial factor—choosing what truly interests me.

Looking at my personal to-do list sometimes feels like peeking into an untouched storage box—cluttered, neglected, gathering dust. Holidays would come, and I’d tell myself, “This time, I’ll tackle those lingering tasks!” But routines would resume, and those ambitions drifted to the background, replaced by a mental loop of half-formed plans.

In recent months, I’ve started to face this cycle head-on. I’m learning to make clearer decisions about where to invest my time and energy, and giving myself space to actually create and finish things that matter to me.

The Art of Eavesdropping: A Guide to Recording & Transcribing Meetings

Posted by on May 28, 2024 No comments
man working from home during a Zoom meeting. He wears a headset and sits at a desk with a laptop open in front of him. Display a blurred home office background. Include a summary of the meeting as a text box or virtual sticky note.

Are you tired of missing important details during meetings because you’re too busy speaking or taking notes? Do you wish you could record and transcribe your meetings without anyone noticing? You’re not alone! Many of us have been in this situation before, especially when we’re in a meeting and can’t take notes because we’re one of the speakers.

Problem

However, recording and transcribing meetings can be a hassle, especially when we’re using platforms like Zoom, Teams, or Slack. These tools allow us to discuss with many people, but they don’t always let us record without anyone noticing.

Solution

In this article, we’ll show you a simple and effective way to make a transcript of your meetings without breaking a sweat. We’ll use a few powerful tools to help you record and transcribe your meetings without anyone noticing.

Step 1: Setup Your Virtual Audio Source

To start, you need to download Blackhole a powerful tool that can merge and aggregate multiple sources into one single virtual source. Once installed (2 channels or 16 channels), you can see how to merge with this tutorial to Route Mic and System Audio.

Step 1: Record Your Meeting

We’ll use a tool called Voice Memo on Mac to record our meeting. This tool allows us to record our voice and audio from our headset + the output of your meeting tool (Zoom, Microsoft Tools, Google Meet).

Step 3: Use Aiko to Transcribe Your File

Once we’ve recorded our meeting, we’ll use Aiko to transcribe our file. Aiko is a AI powerful tool that can detect the language and translate it into a transcript. There is another similar tool Open Source called Vibe that does exactly the same.

Step 4: Make A Summary Of Your Transcript

Finally, let’s make a full summary in bullet point style with your favorite AI tool. I personally use Jan.ai which is quite handy for those kind of task. At that time of writing, Llama 3 8B Q4 is my favorite model.

Here is an example of prompt like for the summary:

Can you make a summary of this transcript in a bullet point style: {TRANSCRIPT}

Conclusion:

By following these simple steps, you’ll be able to record and transcribe your meetings without breaking a sweat and without anyone to notice it. Be kind and ask for permission as it’s not legal to record without asking consent. If it’s for your own use it might be okay but it’s a valid proof from a legal perspective.
You’ll never miss important details again, and you’ll be able to stay focused on the discussion. So, let’s get started and make transcription a breeze!

Benefits:

  • Record and transcribe your meetings without anyone noticing
  • Stay focused on the discussion and never miss important details
  • Use powerful tools to make transcription a breeze
  • Increase your productivity and efficiency
  • Improve your meeting notes and follow-up
  • Make a summary of it through your favorite AI tool

By using these tools and following these steps, you’ll be able to make transcription a breeze and stay on top of your meetings. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get started and make transcription a part of your daily routine!

Next time, the idea would be to automatize all this process with FlowiseAI or Dify.ai and then published it automatically on my OneDrive while having the possibility to search through all the content with a RAG.

Please share in comments your thoughts and way you are building your day-to-day process.

Buffer your life

Posted by on June 9, 2023 No comments

It’s quite hard to realize how much chance we have at some moments in life. Our focus is on daily routings work and family.

We are non stop working more than 8h a day, and my feeling is that the job once you are off the network, you don’t disconnect right away. It takes quite a while to disconnect totally.

It’s like when you go on PTO, you always have a delay of a couple days before you can say that you have totally disconnected. Is this sensation the result of realizing that we feel great, happy and well positioned in a company?

Probably yes… there are so much to think about and especially there are so much things to think about on a day to day basis. We’d like to cover it all in a timely manner to free up some mind space but it’s impossible within 24h. You have the work time 8h and 8h of sleep. It’s 8h of free space!

Goal is to optimize most of your time on those 8h to get maximum peace of mind time. So you get automation within your life and add convenience as much as you can to reduce chores.

There is a famous citation saying: what is important is not quantity but quality. Quality falls into happiness when time is optimized as much as you can. Getting quality takes time.

The challenge is to anticipate the unanticipated. Easy to say but hard to do.

One thing that I’ve learn a while back when I was a student for being a Project Manager at HETIC school, is to create buffer spaces within the projects. It has a cost for companies. That usually a problem for companies as they prefer to name it differently as it’s seen as lost time not spent by the people that would be working on the projects to accomplish it.

In a family context it’s hardly applicable due to a human behavior discipline. Even on a couple relationships, discipline is sometimes overdriven by some noise tasks surrounding us.

Peace of mind is quite important in our lives at work and at home to lead to happiness. Mindfulness time is required in our daily life to have time to think about our day, month, accomplishments, feelings, sharing, caring moments. Buffer could be a solution. We sometime don’t want to create those moments as we don’t see any value – like a company – but this is the key to happiness from my point of view.

This is an essay on life.

Crée ton propre Netflix local avec la Freebox Delta

Posted by on June 3, 2023 8 comments

Objectif

Créer un Netflix-like sécurisé accessible depuis l’extérieur avec la possibilité de télécharger automatiquement les films/séries. Merci Swizzin.
Swizzin Logo

Pré-requis

  • Nom de domaine
  • Compte CloudFlare (idéalement le nom de domaine est déjà lié)
  • Freebox Delta
  • Postman

À installer

  • Radarr
  • Lidarr
  • Readarr
  • Jackett
  • Jellyfin
  • Let’s Encrypt
  • Panel
  • FFMpeg
  • Jellyseer (optionnel)

Préparation de la freebox

Depuis votre navigateur, aller sur https://mafreebox.freebox.fr/.

Vérifier dans “Paramètres de la freebox” > (Mode avancé) > Partage de Fichier / Partages Windows

  • Activer SMB2/SMB3
  • Activer le partage de fichier

Étapes

Installation de la VM

  1. Aller sur VM -> Ajouter une VM
    • Nom: “Swizzin“
    • CPU: “2“
    • RAM: Autant que vous pouvez (Possible de remplacer par plus de RAM)
    • Sélectionner “Choisir un système d’exploitation pré-installé parmi une liste“
  2. Cliquer sur “Suivant”
    • Système pré-installé: “Debian 11 (Bullseye)“
    • Utilisateur par défaut: “freebox“
    • Clé SSH: <votercléSSHk> (Linux/Mac command to retrieve key: pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)
    • Cocher “Accès aux disques Freebox“
  3. Cliquer sur “Suivant”
    • Choisissez l’espace que vous souhaitez allouer (42 par défaut semble largement suffisant). Les films et séries seront télécharger depuis l’interface Freebox donc les médias ne sont pas stocker sur la VM.
    • Une fois que c’est terminé de télécharger, cliquer “Terminer“
  4. On peut maintenant “Allumer” la VM
  5. Attendre un peu que la VM ce lance et exécute tous les scripts cloud-init puis l’IP de la machine doit apparaître dans l’encart “État”
  6. Toujours dans l’onglet VM, cliquer sur Réseau > Configurer une redirection de port
    • Port de début : 443
    • Port de fin : 443
    • Port de destination : 443

Installation de Swizzin, applications et domaine

  1. Se connecter en SSH avec son Terminal (Linux/MacOS) ou Putty (Windows) “ssh freebox@<votreIPetape5>
  2. Une fois connecté et authentifier en tant que user: freebox, on change le mot de passe root: “sudo passwd“
  3. Ensuite on s’authentifie en root, “su –“
  4. Tape la commande : “bash <(curl -sL s5n.sh) && . ~/.bashrc“
  5. Après quelques seconds/minutes, il y a l’assistant qui ce lance
  6. Valider “OK”
  7. Mettez un “username”
  8. Laisser le mot de passe vide il va vous en générer un
  9. Copier ce mot de passe et stocker-le précieusement
  10. Il demande si vous l’avez bien sauvegardé. Confirmer.
  11. Dans la liste sélectionner : radarr lidarr readarr jacket jellyfin let’sencrypt panel ffmpeg
  12. Puis valider
  13. Suivez les instructions pour Let’s encrypt (domain, Y, Y, Y API token, email), done!

Changer les permissions d’accès SMB au dossier de nos vidéos

  • Lancer la commande “sudo nano /etc/fstab“
  • Changer la ligne où il y a le network mapping en prenant soin de changer uniquement la partie à partir de guest: “rw,guest,uid=1001,gid=1001,comment=cloudconfig”
  • Sauvegarder le fichier (CTRL+X, Y)
  • Lancer la commande “sudo umount /mnt/*“
  • Lancer la commande “sudo mount -a“

Voilà. Vous avez tout ce qu’il faut désormais pour télécharger, gérer et visionner vos films/séries via une seule et même interface.

Ad blocker for all your devices everywhere with Pi-Hole + WireGuard

Posted by on March 15, 2020 No comments
PiHole + Unbound + WireGuard on Raspberry Pi

On my previous article I’ve been disabling my ad-blocker to feel like a vanilla user with no experience at all in using a computer and it was a catastrophe experience on a vast majority of websites I was browsing.

Instead of a simple extension on your browser which will use computing resources, slow page rendering, you can go to a more radical way with Pi-Hole.

PiHole powerful DNS server for filtering your network

This will cost you at most 50 € with a Raspberry Pi 3 for a lifetime efficient ad/social/whatever you want blocker!

Pi-Hole is a network wide ad blocking application that filter all the traffic from your network and delivers it through a DNS server. So instead of taking some heavy resources on your computer with a browser ad blocker like uBlock Origin or LuLu as a blocker for computer wise network filtering, you get it on your full network! How handy!

What are the pros:

  • Full network filtering: which means that all your devices at home will be filtered. Even if some friends and family joins
  • Increase Internet speed: yep! True and verified. As you’ll cut all trackers/ads/and other unwanted traffic, your pages will load at least 2 times faster on most cases. You can even do some page loading comparison to check. Make sure you are connected to a 1 Gb/s Ethernet cable for optimum speed
  • Mobile through VPN: you can filter your traffic as well on your other devices that supports VPN’s. This will enable you to move with your filtering rules everywhere you go.

The couple Pi-Hole + WireGuard (VPN) is a great combination to keep battery usage low on your mobile phones while being connected to your PiHole.

Quick list of tutorials about PiHole and WireGuard setup:

I turned off my ad blocker after 10 years

Posted by on September 23, 2018 No comments
uBlockPlus

And believe me, Internet is clearly in danger.

This happened just a few weeks ago while at work at the office, a colleague asked me an information that I knew exactly where it was on the company network. So, I’ve triggered quickly my bookmark shortcut to get straight to the information requested. It was a Confluence page which I’ve checked quickly regarding the quality of information and then promptly shared it to my colleague on Slack.

After moving to his desk for discussing about this topic I started to heard my CPU reaching the moon! Why? After closing my Confluence page it was back to normal but I wanted to know why my colleagues didn’t have this issue. After reading that this could be caused by some Chrome extension, I deactivate one by one while monitoring CPU usage through Chrome task manager.

Boom! Virgin Chrome! Problem solved!

Then forgot about reactivating my extensions one by one as I was navigating on corporate network websites (without ads). Surprisingly, my navigation was fluid and extremely speed. I was like a kid discovering a new optic fiber connection on my brand new computer back in 2010. But my excitement just dropped once I started to get on all websites I was regularly following…

Nytimes

Wow! How can you read consciously an article without being polluted visually while reading? Wait! Can we still talk about reading? The pattern used by the journal is extremely disturbing.

Le Huffington Post lots of distractions

YouTube

I’m a heavy consumer and early adopter of YouTube content. There are so much interesting educational videos on YouTube that I can almost not live without it anymore. I know advertising help content producer to make a living of it but there must be another way. Donations should be the solution, not agressive and EXTREMELY repetitive ads! Moreover, some friends are giving away their phone to their kids and they watch those advertising over and over. Not good at all either from an educational point of view.

Conclusion

After a few weeks using no ad blocker, I started to see what web was alike for my parents and for my step parents. Tricky ads hidden similarly to some content, very eye catchy banner, extreme tracking obviously which target with a sniper accuracy product they searched for.

But there is one thing that I noticed the most, it’s the waste of time! At work, it honestly impacted my productivity due to required scrolling, frenetic clicking crosses, video ads that you can’t skip and visual agression that you constantly have along the day.

Full automated website experimentation with a static site generator

Posted by on July 1, 2016 No comments
Static Site Generator workflow

Lately, we’ve see a lot of static site generator tools being created by a lot of talented developers. At first sigh, you might be skeptical about the usage you could take of it. Most of the time this is advertise for a blog usage, or just a single page website. But personally, I see a lot of potential in it, you can for example create a ad listing website with a form on each ad submitted by users, you can create a full e-commerce website or you can create a full tube site. For experimentation purpose, I’ve tried to create a full tube site in full static mode + tried to automatise the content generation at it’s maximum.

What really gives all values to static sites are the side online services that could enrich drastically all the power of a single website into a full dynamic and social website.

Also, what I find really amazing with static website are the following benefits that it could bring:

  • Cost effective
  • Crazy speed
  • SEO power that they can provide!
  • (Almost) no hacks possible

How is it possible?

That’s what I’d like to demonstrate into this article as my goal was basically to generate a full tube site without having to maintain anything and put everything on autopilot. I must say that I partially succeed as there are a few features that are missing but most of the work is there yet. In order to show the full potential, I will explain the steps I went through and mention all the tools I’ve been using.

Step 1 – Choose the right static site generator

To find out the most appropriate static site generator, I’ve went through a list of mandatory features I needed. (I won’t mentioned the standard ones that are all already provided in each and everyone static site generator such as post, slug, etc…)

  • Custom collection – This is useful for creating new type of content such as in my case “videos”. We aren’t dealing with posts but with a video collection which has some different attributes (lenght, video-url, etc…)
  • Event driven plugin – This will be really interesting for fetching/scrapping automatically content from another website/API, posting automatically to social networks, minimizing, etc…
  • Sorting of collections
  • Flexible theme system
  • Command line tools

The language didn’t matter a lot but as I was more PHP fluent, I was searching for one that would fit my needs in PHP, so, I went to staticgen website to find out the best generator for my experimental website.

At first, as I’ve been reading a lot about it the time being, I’ve looked toward Sculpin. Unfortunately, what stopped me was the fact that templates weren’t well implemented yet and that custom collection (custom types) was in beta. Another criteria was that the team wasn’t maintaining the project anymore.

Then, I looked into a pretty new one that was active and proposed exactly what I wanted: Spress. I really invite you to take a look at the documentation because it’s simple & easy to read. Then take a look at a few code example on their repository and you’re good to go! Kudo guy’s for the great work!

Step 2 – Creating the template

There was no open-source template for a tube site, I needed to create my own. To speed up the process, I could have gone with a good old standard Bootstrap framework and create my blocks quickly but I wanted to learn a new CSS framework with a more UX approach. In 2015, there was a CSS framework that was making a bit of noise called Semantic-UI as they have bundle not only a lot of UI elements that all made sense but also proposed a very flexible CSS theme system where you basically just set your variables in the config files with your customization and it will change the look & feel of all your UI elements while keeping UX consistency! Same as Spress, go give it a try!

Then a problem, came to me about some dynamic values that I would need to deal with:

  • Publish date and video duration – to get over it, I’ve used the following Javascript library: MomentJS
  • Video – VideoJS is from what I know the best fitted tool for getting videos working smoothly & also responsive.
  • Social Sharing buttons – Found this on Github and works pretty fine. (I could have done this on my own but decided to go with a library that does it)

Step 3 – External services

On a tube website, you usually want users to interact with your visitors by commenting, submitting videos, making some search or simply contact us. Here are the online tools that I’ve been using:

  • Commenting – Disqus
  • Search videos – Tipusearch (a javascript search engine)
  • Video submission – Ziggeo an online service where you can simply upload or even record your video.
  • Contact form – GetSimpleForm

There is a tool that I’m missing, which is the number of page views per video. If you know any service that does just that, let me know by commenting!

Step 4 – Creating the template for Spress

After getting a fully functional template. I’ve took some examples from Spress templates and started to code my own template with all the static template I’ve been working with initially.

Step 5 – Fetching content

To fetch content & generate markdown files, I’ve used the Vid.me service which provides an API that have a bunch of information related to videos. The only thing I needed to do was the following:

  1. Retrieve from a vid.me channel all videos
  2. Download the videos & related images
  3. Generate the markdown file while injecting all the meta datas in it
  4. Run the command line for generating the website from the markdown files
  5. Put a cronjob on this script

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to create a proper plugin for Spress with it, but it’s something that I have in my plans.

Step 6 – Wrap everything up

Once the fetcher put in place, I just needed to create a neat bash script for executing everything on a regular basis to fetch, generate and move created website to the appropriate server.

I’ve also included a plugin to minimize the HTML pages in order to speed up the delivery of the pages.

The result: Loopion Me which is a tube site dedicated to Funny Fails Videos.

Known issues:

  • Everything is currently hosted on a shared hosting called DreamHost which doesn’t allow to use enough RAM & CPU usage for generating all the pages (more than a thousands). So, either I increase my DremaHost hosting performance or Spress team needs to do efforts to reduce the amount of resources used by the page generation
  • In relation with above issue, Spress regenerate everything from start to end, which of course has the consequence to take longer to generate the full site. It would have been nice if like Hugo it was generating per update pages. They call it “partial builds”.
  • Ziggeo is providing the video through the API and I have a few submission but they aren’t published yet as I haven’t created a script to transform those incoming videos into a markdown file
  • Tags & Categories aren’t implemented

Conclusion

It was interesting to see how we can make a full website on autopilot, without any dynamic code and with a minimum security risk. Of course, the moderation is drastically missing there as you can see. But in a nutshell, the potential of delegation all dynamic work to others and not maintaining it almost at all. (I just receive a report of correct importation)

Few improvements that could bring a lot of value to your site:

  • Implement categories & tags
  • After each generated video page, send a Tweet and a Facebook post
  • Get a script to validate in one click the submitted videos on Ziggeo
  • Minimize CSS
  • Improve SEO semantics (by using Google guidelines for example)
  • Provide an authenticated (Basic Auth with SSL) API for creating native mobile apps
  • Compress images

 

Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts about this experiment. Or if you have any other suggested static site generator.

What I’ve learned by being more than 2 years a SCRUM master

Posted by on March 9, 2015 1 comment

In my previous company, I’ve been a SCRUM master (in addition to my main job: project manager) for more than 2 years and as you know, we always learn from our own errors and success. That’s why I started to list of few thoughts and things that I’d like to avoid in similar situation/role:

  • Setup tools as soon as possible early in the project in order to automatize a lot of development process. The more you do before starting, the better it will be.
  • Force your team to have some pause during your sprint in order to cool down on stuff that are important to team eyes (update continuous environment, upgrade a library, research, etc.).
  • Team must justify the need of this time and not only in front of SCRUM master but also to product owner and even beyond to stakeholders.
  • When working with a deported team, meet as soon as possible the team in order to give them a perfect vision of the project and share PO & SCRUM Master charisma.
  • Give visibility with transparency to stakeholders on a sprint or release basis by giving:
    • Budget status
    • Global vision of the project (no features! Otherwise it’s taken as granted) usually give business value
    • Milestone /sprints
    • Backlog priorities
    • Risks
  • Challenge stories without bringing your knowledge but by confronting the stories from previous sprints
  • Get a commitment from the team
  • Resolve impediments as soon as possible
    • Anticipate backup plans (ex: someone working on another story) at the same time
  • Give as much as possible visibility to all the team on the upcoming sprints
  • Give time to SCRUM team for reading/studying PO stories
  • If building an online application, have at least 1 x UI/UX designer in the team
  • Don’t rush on cutting edge technology or if it’s required, team needs training on those new technologies or simply change the whole team

So far this is what I’ve encountered along my experience and personal suggestion. I can possibly update the list in the future.

If you’d like me to develop a specific topic enunciated above, please shoot a comment and I will do my best to have a post on it.

About Magento: Meets Magento | Build native mobile shopping experiences for Magento

Posted by on April 28, 2014 No comments

Meets.io is a native SDK for iOS and Android, designed to ease communication between mobile apps and Magento stores.
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