May 26, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A quick article explaining what Chum is, its interests, and how to install and
use it on your Sailfish OS device.
May 23, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
I recently watched that movie with my youngest son, and got pleasantly surprised
May 19, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
May 16, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Didn't know that, so sharing here!
May 09, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
It literally takes 5 minutes to do, let's see how to do it
May 05, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Putting it here for me, but maybe useful for others
May 02, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
To my surprise it is possible - let's see how to do it!
April 25, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
I thought I had lost a file and would need to restore a backup, but Nextcloud
made my day!
April 24, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A quick one to reflect on those 3 years
April 21, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A short how-to more for me, but could be useful to others
April 17, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Continuing Amstrad CPC games "quick" tests, with some classical ones.
April 15, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Mostly under the hood stuff, but not only
April 13, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A fun (or maybe weird) one: why over-complicating toilet flush?
April 11, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Surely it must be average at editing Markdown files? Let's find out
April 07, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
April 03, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A quick look at why I chose it, and what I used and tested before
March 30, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Better late than never, since the album got released a year ago (March '22).
March 27, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Baikal suddenly stopped working, here's a quick tip on how to fix this
March 24, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Let's see how my first trail of 2023 went!
March 17, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A (super) short article on why I think being kind always pays off
March 05, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
I finally found some time to setup BarWal on my 10iii, let's see how it works!
February 24, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Or how I got bored of having ugly code blocks and decided to fix it
February 21, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Let's have a look at the Operating Systems I'm using.
February 15, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A post focused on our beloved mobile OS at FOSDEM
February 11, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
February 07, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
I finally attended FOSDEM, THE Open Source event in Europe - here's a quick recap
February 06, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
How to make your PineTime work again with SFOS 4.5
February 02, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
After 3 months using it, it's time for a feedback!
January 30, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A quick look at this very fun game which I recently discovered
January 23, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
I finally have a search feature on my blog - here's how I implemented it.
January 19, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
My attempt at guessing what's coming with Sailfish OS 4.5 :)
January 16, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Fancy lacing system and shiny colors, but is the price worth it?
January 09, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
A quick one explaining how I easily gained disk space on one of my FreeBSD
servers.
January 01, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Some quick facts about my blogging habits in 2022.
December 30, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A few thoughts on why I gave up migrating to Hugo
December 22, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Still the year 1987, this time with a side-scrolling action game based on a
cartoon series.
December 16, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I recently ran France's oldest trail race (68th edition), here's a recap!
December 01, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Sailfish OS cannot natively play MMS audio files, but there's a way to do it,
let's see how in this article!
November 29, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
After a few runs and a 54k trail, it's time for a proper review!
November 18, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A quick one, as I recently upgraded from a 10 II to a 10 III.
November 07, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Suunto finally allows you to use their app to create structured workouts!
Let's see quickly how it works.
November 02, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A quick recap of the first Swiss SFOS event
October 28, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
No major features in that release, but it's preparing the ground for the future!
October 23, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I recently ran a trail in Correze (south-west of France) which went a bit less
well than I expected.
October 11, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A quick one as I didn't see the problem I encountered with Bose detailed enough
in the reviews.
October 01, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Since a few SFOS releases, processes tended to be killed far too often on my
X10II. This is now hopefully fixed with that tip!
September 30, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I recently went on a family trip to Italy, and I brought my running gear.
This fun article aims at comparing my experience as a tourist and as a runner :)
September 22, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
SmashRun recently released a new feature, called "Friends Report", whose goal is
to give you more insight into how your friends' running is going. Let's have a
look!
September 12, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Recently, during a business trip to the US, I ran in this beautiful park.
August 29, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
My first gig of 2022! A quick summary of how it was.
August 19, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Or how to save 100€ and be a bit nicer to our planet :)
August 13, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Who said training for a trail was impossible in the Paris area?
July 24, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
New variation of my Amstrad games tests: quicker ones, but 2 in the same
article! Let's go!
July 15, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
It's finally here, at least in Beta! Let's have a look.
July 09, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Archive released their latest album last month, here's a quick review.
June 30, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Hardly 2 months after Limeberry, this release brings nice improvements, but also
the usual bug fixes.
June 25, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
The latest addition to my Altra collection.
June 13, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Yet another gig this year - this time with The Smile, in a very nice venue!
June 09, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A quick article on my thoughts about RIPE 84.
May 21, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A deepdive on this new feature - what's good, what can be improved
May 13, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A fun post: how does a 7+ years ago SFOS compare with today's SFOS?
May 05, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Continuing with my tests of CPC games, this time with one of Ubi Soft's first
games.
April 29, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I bought my Skinners a while ago, during their crowdfunding campaign (5 years
ago, in January 2017!) but didn't really use them a lot.
I did it recently, so here's my review of those "shoes/socks".
April 21, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
3 months after Fuzzy Kiwi, InfiniTime 1.9 is there, with some new features and
improvements, let's have a look!
April 15, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A quick summary of this second SFOS meetup, and some information about the
next one!
April 11, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I am just back from Zermatt, Switzerland, where I saw Thom Yorke performing at
the Zermatt Unplugged festival. Here's how it went.
April 03, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
In this article, I'm explaining why I came back to Suunto as running watch.
March 26, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
A quick look at Speech Note, an application providing speech to text
functionality: how to install it, and testing its accuracy, both in French and
English.
March 18, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Jolla recently released Vanha Rauma to Early Access subscribers, here's my take
after a day.
March 11, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Better late than never - I received my Bangle.js 2 end of last year, but am only
starting to play with it now. Let's start with a comparison with its
predecessor, the original Bangle.js
February 26, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
My family and I drove to see the final game of the French Cup (Angers vs. Gap). Here's a quick recap.
February 17, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
My take on Nintendo's newly released Game & Watch with 3 Zelda games.
February 09, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I recently bought and started using my first Salomon shoes - let's see what I
like and don't like with them!
February 01, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
I recently went to the US for a business trip, and while there, a colleague
dragged me into a "Paris Baguette" bakery. Here's my take.
January 24, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
In this article, I am looking at all the things that happened in one year of
development of InfiniTime, PineTime's default firmware.
January 17, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
In this article, I want to compare the performances of a PowerDNS Authoritative
server using a SQL backend, versus one using a LMDB backend.
January 10, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
This release adds the long-awaited BLE secure pairing, and a couple of other
nice features, improvements and bug fixes. Follow me!
January 03, 2022 —
Nico Cartron
Some quick facts about my blogging habits in 2021.
December 29, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
After Mach 3,
let's cross the Channel and have a look at this awesome British game from the
end of the 90's!
December 17, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
I recently ran the "Hivernale des Templiers", a very nice Trail race in South of
France. As it's my first trail race, I wanted to provide some insight.
December 14, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
We recently got together with some members of the French Sailfish OS community -
finally meeting face to face!
November 22, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
I wanted to install a desktop environment on an unused NUC, and rather than
going for Debian, I decided to go for FreeBSD, to see how easy (or not) it
would be to set it up on a "modern" machine.
November 13, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
How about you can get the number of steps you walked synch'ed to
your companion app? That's what this version brings, along with other nice
improvements. Let's have a look!
November 06, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Jolla has released 2 days ago the latest Sailfish OS version - 4.3.0, nicknamed
"Suomenlinna" - to Early Access subscribers - what does it bring?
October 25, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
If you're a runner, chance is that you want to analyse your runs with fancy
diagrams. You're in luck, as SmashRun aims exactly at that!
October 18, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
I'm back from Berlin, where Jolla held a nice conference/meetup to celebrate its
10th year anniversary - let's see how it went!
October 10, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This article aims at keeping track of Infinitime firmware versions: when they've
been released, what they brought, and where to get them.
October 05, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Yup, you're reading that correctly: a new InfiniTime release is available hardly
3 days after 1.5 (Huckleberry). But there's a really good reason for that!
September 27, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
The InfiniTime development is not slowing down any time soon: we now have a very
nice Alarm app, along with some improvements around battery reading, doc and BLE
advertising.
September 10, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Following the first articles I wrote about the CPC, I will be (re)testing some
of my favorites CPC games. Let's start with Mach 3!
September 03, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This release includes many improvements, making InfiniTime a lot smoother to
use.
September 01, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
On August 31st, Jolla has released SFOS 4.2.0.19 to the Early Access
subscribers. Let's have a look at what it brings!
August 27, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
How accurate is a $25 smartwach pedometer? Let's find out!
August 18, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Whether or not you're a runner, you've probably heard many times "Running? Man
that's boring!".
Let's review how you can prove that wrong!
August 11, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Let's have a look at this nice CPC emulator - what it does and does not do, and
how it compares to the other emulators I tested recently.
July 29, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
One month after Blue-purple Elderberry / 1.2.0, "Purple Fig" 1.3.0 is out and
brings both visible and (most importantly in my opinion) super nice, non visible
improvements. Let's have a look!
July 22, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Continuing with the interviews around the PineTime community.
After JF (InfiniTime lead dev) and Lup (Bootloader lead dev), this time I am
interviewing Lukasz from Pine64.
July 13, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A fun one for me, to keep track of the shoes I'm using to run - focusing on
Altra.
July 06, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
In this post, I'll discuss some of the ways anyone can help with his favorite
Open Source project, even when not a developer.
July 01, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
I recently bought a 2nd-hand Xperia 10 II to replace my aging XA2, and thought
it would be good to document SFOS installation on it, from a different angle
than Jolla's one. Let's go!
June 22, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Exactly one month after Dragon Fruit / 1.1, here's another InfiniTime release,
bringing stability, a new Metronome app, and the support of a new accelerometer
(the BMA425).
June 17, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A quick look at this new feature, aimed at providing better performances when
under NXD attacks.
June 05, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
After the interview I did with JF,
I am now discussing with Lup Yuen, who created the
first bootloader for our beloved PineTime.
May 28, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
... or more precisely "why are you running?", is a question I heard a lot from
friends, colleagues and acquaintances, specially when I started running
seriously on a regular basis.
Let me explain you why, and the many benefits this has to me!
May 24, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Barely one month after InfiniTime's first stable release, "Dragon Fruit" is
available, bringing new features and more stability.
May 17, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Jolla recently released SailfishOS 4.1.0 to Early Access (EA) subscribers, so
let's have a quick look at what it brings!
May 14, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Last article in this series: let's integrate our Velux KLF-200 with Domoticz!
May 01, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Follow-up of my previous articles on the Amstrad CPC, this
time I am making a list of the top 10 games I enjoyed playing with in the '90s.
April 25, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Want to control your (proprietary) io-homecontrol devices (roller shutter,
etc.)?
This Velux KLF-200 device is designed for that, let me show you how to set it up
and add devices to it!
April 21, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A quick review of the apps (both native and Android ones) I'm using on my XA2.
April 18, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
We're getting super close to a 1.0 release of InfiniTime, PineTime's firmware by
JF!
Keep reading to see all the new exciting features embedded in that version!
April 14, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Second article in this series, this time focusing on sites publishing "popular
routes in cities".
April 09, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Follow-up of my first
article
about the Amstrad CPC 6128: this time, we're looking at the top CPC emulators: how
they compare and what you can do with them :)
April 05, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
In this article, I am interviewing JF, who is working on the PineTime firmware
since October 2019.
JF walks us through InfiniTime, from the first developments, up to the latest ones,
which I have been documenting on this blog.
April 02, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Yet another quick article on automation.
In this one, I am describing how to reset your Somfy IO roller shutter, in my
case to be able to pair it with a Velux Integra KLF-200, and control my Velux
roof windows and Somfy roller shutters from Domoticz.
March 30, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A quick one on how not to waste time (like I did) with Domoticz API because of
user's permissions :)
March 26, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
As a SailfishOS and smartwatch user, I'm using Amazfish companion app on a daily
basis and enjoy it.
I recently realised that (at least to my knowledge), there was no "proper"
review of it available out there, so I'm filling that gap with that article :)
March 21, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
Yet another InfiniTime release, bringing 2 exciting new features: a stopwatch
and two watchfaces, which can be swapped at will!
Keep reading to know more :)
March 16, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This article is part of a series of 3, where I'm exploring the different options
available for runners to create routes and then use them on their running
watches.
- In this first article, I am testing the major sites able to draw running
routes, with the use case of "drawing the route yourself, from a specific
starting point/distance",
- The second article (to be published) will focus on sites publishing "popular
routes in cities",
- The third article (to be published) will deal with "route shuffling", or sites
that allow creating random routes from a specific starting point.
March 10, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
We're barely into March, and there's already some news on the front of
InfiniTime!
Nothing really new per se, but when you scratch the surface, you'll see that
it's a "building block" for future InfiniTime releases.
Follow me and let's upgrade together!
March 09, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This one's for me - I am a huge Radiohead fan, and have been to quite a few of
their gigs, so in this quick article I am listing them all, with possibly some
notes from my memory :)
March 02, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
In this series of articles, I want to look at the Amstrad CPC 6128: its history
and my "relationship" with it, the different emulators available today,
before delving into the games I played with when I was young(er)! :)
February 25, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
3rd InfiniTime update in February 2021 - I told you, the project is super hot!
So what does this version bring? Basically an update to the
LVGL version, from 6 to 7.
Cool! But concretely? Keep reading to find out!
February 23, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
With this release, we're very close to having a fully functional (albeit basic)
smartwatch. So let's dive in!
February 20, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A quick review of Altra's trail shoes: the Superior 4.0
February 17, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
SFOS 4.0.1 is available since yesterday, and since I have it running on my Sony
Xperia XA2 for almost 2 weeks (as part of the Early Access program), let's have
a look at the main features and improvements it brings.
February 16, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This page lists different tips about SailfishOS, mainly for me when I'm looking for stuff, but can be useful for others as well :)
February 10, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A very quick one today: bored of mistyping all the time because of this tiny
space bar in SailfishOS?
Look no further, here's how to fix that!
February 05, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
InfiniTime is pretty active in this year's start,
as we got 2 versions in 2 weeks!
Let's have a look at what those versions bring.
February 03, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
I am an avid runner, and like to test watches.
This article is my review of WorkOutDoors, a
terrific workout app for the Apple Watch.
January 30, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
A follow-up on my previous posts
about PineTime: what works, and what is missing.
January 24, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
In the last post about PineTime,
we looked at the basics of PineTime.
Now it's time to upgrade InfiniTime, PineTime's firmware :-)
January 23, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This post explains how to keep using Mozilla Location Services (MLS) on
SailfishOS, therefore speeding up GPS fix, especially useful on Sony Xperia XA2.
January 22, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
This post describes quickly the setup of a
PineTime, a hackable and affordable
smartwatch from Pine64.
January 12, 2021 —
Nico Cartron
If you're a fellow SailfishOS sailor, you certainly have noticed that since
version 3.3 "Rokua", Mozilla locations services have stopped working correctly.
(More details available
here).
Fortunately, Coderus recently gave the possibility of using the Yandex location service as a substitute for the Mozilla service.
July 27, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
A quick explanation/workaround on how to make Openrepos' Sailslack on SailfishOS work
July 23, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
Some quick tips on how to use Spotify / Hutspot on SailfishOS
July 15, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
or how I lost 1/2 day trying to fix something that was obvious.
June 21, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
A quick look at why I moved my InfluxDB data away from one of my Raspberry Pi.
May 02, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
This short article is a follow-up to my previous one on using the OPNsense API.
I'll quickly show how I am using Domoticz to easily change the gateway
used by a device (in my case my laptop) from my main ADSL connection to a 4G one,
by calling the OPNsense API.
May 02, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
Even though I'm a DNS geek/enthusiast given my past, I love Pi-Hole
and use it at home on a Raspberry.
This allows me to block ads in a simple and effective manner.
(Of course it then forwards requests to a PowerDNS Recursor for several reasons).
I wanted to have a nice Grafana dashboard with info coming from Pi-Hole, so here's a
quick post as I wasted quite some time because of a simple issue.
April 29, 2020 —
Nico Cartron
I'm a huge fan of FreeBSD and therefore when I contemplated
replacing the crappy router/firewall that comes with my ISP with a proper router,
I looked at open-source software running it.
I initially started with pfsense, which was a fork of
m0n0wall, but then switched to OPNsense
whose approach I liked more, and which itself is a fork of pfsense.
Reasons for the fork are explained here.
April 17, 2020 —
Nico Cartron