diff --git a/reduce-images.sh b/reduce-images.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..3193622 --- /dev/null +++ b/reduce-images.sh @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env zsh +for fic in src/**/*.{jpg,png,gif}(N.); do + tmp="temp.${fic:e}" + echo "$fic" + cp $fic $tmp + convert $tmp -resize 800x800\> $fic + rm $tmp +done diff --git a/src/demo.org b/src/demo.org index 0c541ac..658368f 100644 --- a/src/demo.org +++ b/src/demo.org @@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ Perhaps a list: - another thing #+end_example - * Lists :PROPERTIES: :CUSTOM_ID: lists diff --git a/src/drafts/professional-lessons-and-opinions.draft.org b/src/drafts/professional-lessons-and-opinions.draft.org index b811776..dfe11b5 100644 --- a/src/drafts/professional-lessons-and-opinions.draft.org +++ b/src/drafts/professional-lessons-and-opinions.draft.org @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ #+TITLE: Professional Lessons and Opinions #+AUTHOR: Yann Esposito #+EMAIL: yann@esposito.host -#+DATE: 2019-07-04 +#+DATE: [2019-07-04] #+KEYWORDS: programming, blog, org-mode -#+DESCRIPTION: Different divagations about my experiences in the professional world of Software Developper +#+DESCRIPTION: Different divagations about my experiences in the professional world of Software Developer #+begin_comment How to choose a programming language/paradigm to write with. @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ How to choose a programming language/paradigm to write with. - in Machine Learning, Kolmogorov complexity. Object Oriented is worse than Functional programming to represent naturally many real life problems. -What did I learned? Is it a set of specific knowledges or can we discover great +What did I learned? Is it a set of specific knowledge or can we discover great common principles? - restart from zero, tabula rasa, what is programming? @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ If you want to reach productivity and not necessarily enlightenment. You have to stop learning and use what you know well. And do not try to use things you don't know. -In particular, most programming languages/ide/workflow/utils/tools have basic +In particular, most programming languages/IDE/workflow/utils/tools have basic and advanced features. -If want want to produce and deliver in time. Your best bet is to limit yourselve to +If your want to produce and deliver in time. Your best bet is to limit yourselves to a minimal set of features that give you enough power of combination instead of looking for a super generic strong solution. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ In fact, writing a fully working app you only need, basic data structure (edn) a That's it. I was part of a team that created an advanced full featured app using only those. -No magic, just taking care of the state and not writting spaggethi code. +No magic, just taking care of the state and not writing spaghetti code. * How I choose - Functional programming is superior to imperative and object oriented @@ -91,3 +91,5 @@ Supersed by Clojure/Haskell: - very complex big software: Haskell, Clojure, Purescript, Clojurescript - low level fast, fine grained memory control: Rust + +# LocalWords: tabula rasa diff --git a/src/drafts/sad-text-browsing.org b/src/drafts/sad-text-browsing.org index aa6fd6c..e1f2933 100644 --- a/src/drafts/sad-text-browsing.org +++ b/src/drafts/sad-text-browsing.org @@ -3,11 +3,14 @@ 1. sad state, show HN, Reddit, worse, news websites, etc... 2. bad for disabled people -3. why not change the concept and make the provider of content not also provide the Look & Feel - User controlled display of content. Less money, more quality, is it possible +3. why not change the concept and make the provider of content not also + provide the Look & Feel. + User controlled display of content. + Less money, more quality, is it possible - no js - text only - interaction? controlled one - user facing code, yes, only signature, all the rest looks like bullshit to me -4. not web 3.0, more like, fuck it, we need a BRUTALIST, Hacker-only oriented - web. A safe place to talk between civilised people. What are the possible solutions +4. not web 3.0, more like, fuck it, we need a BRUTALIST, Hacker-only + oriented web. A safe place to talk between civilised people. What are + the possible solutions diff --git a/src/img/a.png b/src/img/a.png index eadeefc..4bd81c3 100644 Binary files a/src/img/a.png and b/src/img/a.png differ diff --git a/src/posts/troll-2.org b/src/posts/troll-2.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df754d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/troll-2.org @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +#+Title: Troll 2 +#+Subtitle: How a terrible movie can be entertaining +#+Author: Yann Esposito +#+Email: yann@esposito.host +#+Date: [2019-08-17 Sat] +#+KEYWORDS: movie +#+DESCRIPTION: +#+LANGUAGE: en +#+LANG: en +#+OPTIONS: H:5 auto-id:t +#+STARTUP: showeverything + +#+begin_notes +I watched what might be the most failed movie of all time and I still +enjoyed greatly the show. +#+end_notes + +I recently wanted to watch again an horror teen movie I watched when I was +a young boy: Troll. +But I discovered there were a movie called Troll 2. +I guessed that it must be the following one. + +Oh god, I saw the imdb note was, really, really bad. +But who cares, I watched it. + +And here is a resume of my experience: + +* The watching +:PROPERTIES: +:CUSTOM_ID: the-watching +:END: + +Troll 2 synopsis is a family that goes camping to Nilbog. +The son of the family see his dead grandfather that warn him against +Goblins that make you eat things that transform you and then they eat you. +Of course nobody listen to the warn of the boy, the family goes to Nilbog +which is of course infested by Goblins. + +Troll 2 is bad on most criterion you use to measure the quality of a movie. + +During the first minutes of the movie, you get to see the costume of the +goblins. +Those costume looks very bad and cheap. +So much you can only find them not terrorizing but funny and ridiculous. + +#+CAPTION: One goblin during the introduction scene of Troll 2 +#+NAME: fig:troll-2-intro +#+ATTR_HTML: A goblin +[[./troll-2/Troll-2-intro.jpg]] + +Soon after that, you realize the acting of all actors is extremely bad. +In fact, it is so bad, you might not believe me how bad it is. +To give you an idea, the only equal bad acting I ever witnessed was while +looking at amateurs first Youtube movie trying to follow a scenario. +Apparently all actor were amateurs, it was their first and last movie. + +#+CAPTION: One particularly terrible acting scene +#+NAME: fig:bad-acting +#+ATTR_HTML: A bad acting demonstration +[[file:troll-2/bad-acting.png]] + +The dialog are, really something... +For example the expression "clusters of hemorrhoid" is used in a non ironic +dialog. + +The scenario is terrible. +For example, most of the thing occurring suffer from terrible plot holes or +terrible mistakes that make everything hard to believe even if you accept +the premises of a world were Goblin would exists. +For example, the grandfather ghost can stop time for 30 seconds for no +reason at all. + +The realization is a series of basic mistakes. +Actors are not in the same places after all plan cut for example. +Some filmed scene feel so wrong. + +I forgot to give a word about the music. +It is like the director choose the worst music to go along each scene. + +The first ending is really, quite surprising. +They beat the monsters with, what I believe was a failed attempt at humor. +It misses the point so bad, that the irony still make it funny. + +#+CAPTION: Our hero save the day by urinating on the table. His family is frozen for 30s said grandpa, they were for 70s. +#+NAME: fig:prevent-eating +#+ATTR_HTML: Eliott prevents his family to eat the food by urinating on the table +[[./troll-2/prevent-eating-scene.jpg]] + +Of course, the very last scene is a classical so terrible cliché. +To let you close the experience in awe. + +But there is a bonus, the cherry on the cake. +During all the movie, it is *never* question of a Troll at all. +The monsters are all Goblin, not Troll. +I think the word "troll" is not pronounced once in the movie. + +Still, it was quite entertaining. + +# LocalWords: Nilbog cliché + +* After the movie +:PROPERTIES: +:CUSTOM_ID: after-the-movie +:END: + +What is really interesting though is that I really enjoyed the watch. +It was so bad, that in the end, you do not really enter in the movie, but +really just analyze the movie, and you start to see how much the movie is bad. +And this is so fun. +For example, there are some attempts at humor, but almost all of them fail terribly. +And so, you can laugh at how much it failed. + +Once going to imdb, I discovered I wasn't alone in loving that terrible +movie. +Now, I don't know if I should give that movie a 1 or 2 stars or 8 to 9 +stars because it was so entertaining. + +But I learned a few nice anecdotes about that movie. + +It was realized in America by Claudio Fragasso who didn't speak fluent +English. +He and his wife were apparently irritated by many of her friends turning +vegetarian. +He brought the film crew over with him from Italy. +None of them spoke English either. + +#+begin_quote +“The cast had few experienced actors, and was primarily assembled from +residents of nearby towns who responded to an open casting call. George +Hardy was a dentist with no acting experience who showed up for fun, hoping +to be cast as an extra, only to be given one of the film’s largest speaking +roles. Don Packard, who played the store owner, was actually a resident at +a nearby mental hospital, and was cast for—and filmed—his role while on a +day trip; after recovering and being released from the hospital, he +recalled that he had no idea what was happening around him, and that his +disturbed “performance” in the film was not acting” +#+end_quote + diff --git a/src/posts/troll-2/Troll-2-intro.jpg b/src/posts/troll-2/Troll-2-intro.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a6cb90 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/posts/troll-2/Troll-2-intro.jpg differ diff --git a/src/posts/troll-2/bad-acting.png b/src/posts/troll-2/bad-acting.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8452b2 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/posts/troll-2/bad-acting.png differ diff --git a/src/posts/troll-2/prevent-eating-scene.jpg b/src/posts/troll-2/prevent-eating-scene.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..745517b Binary files /dev/null and b/src/posts/troll-2/prevent-eating-scene.jpg differ