/messages Messages from Mathieu Mayer /messages/2026-04-16-0910/ /messages/2026-04-16-0910/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:10:00 GMT Alright, this is awkward… I deleted this section a little while ago. But now I am bringing it back. Snip snap, snip snap! I just missed it, I thought maybe I could simplify it a bit I removed categories, it’s just one long feed of texts now. If you read this, you are awesome. /messages/2026-01-01-1324/ /messages/2026-01-01-1324/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:24:00 GMT Happy new year! /messages/2025-09-23-1324/ /messages/2025-09-23-1324/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:24:00 GMT I’ve been playing Hollow Knight: Silksong It’s a challenging game but very very fun. Can’t recommend it enough for anyone who love 2D adventure games like Metroid or Castlevania, Ori, etc… On the side, I’ve also been playing Dragon Quest 3 HD2D which is basically Team Asano’s remake of Japan’s favorite RPG ever. I’m not old enough to remember playing these oldies on the original NES but I absolutely love the minimalism of the design, even if that ofc means a very simple (barebone) story. You’re basically thrown into a vast world full of mysteries, treasures and quests, and nothing really to tell you where to go or why. You, as the player, have to figure out most of everything. Weirdly refreshing in 2025. /messages/2025-08-14-1324/ /messages/2025-08-14-1324/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:24:00 GMT I added /resume to my site 🤓 Thought it would be easier to share and update going forward. Work portfolio next hopefully 🤞 I don’t produce a lot of shareable design artifacts So I need time to storyboard this, create assets and put it together /messages/2025-07-28-0602/ /messages/2025-07-28-0602/ Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:02:00 GMT I’m in France atm I watched Scavengers Reign and it was awesome The whole ecosystem they created was fascinating The plot was simple yet gripping The characters were great, my fav were Kamen and Levi The show was sadly canceled but it’s so good, I’m sure there’s a little hope a follow up can be made one day. Also Common Side Effects from the same creators was great and was renewed for a S2 so there’s hope. /messages/2025-07-14-0902/ /messages/2025-07-14-0902/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:02:00 GMT This morning I started thinking about how I could take this message-to-self idea further. I am quite convinced already this is a great format for me to get the writing started. It’s also great at sequencing ideas in very simple sentences. And really, that has always been the biggest blockers to writing blog posts to me. Blog posts are usually short essays with a beginning, a development and a conclusion. Writing a good blog post, in my view, is more cognitively loaded than writing a few texts. It’s a little bit like writing a plot vs writing a dialog scene: Writing a dialog is quite organic to me while… … writing a plot requires a birds eye view and a greater discipline I find? Not sure if this is a shared “universal” experience or a case by case. But the amazing thing with blog posts and longer formats in general is that they have better staying power. A chat bubble is very ephemeral by essence while a post or an essay can stay a reference forever. So now I wonder, what could I do that would help me to turn small chat bubbles into longer posts. A few ideas to develop later: I could write answers texts that ask me to clarify (a little bit like playing chess solo) I could create a tool off some LLM API that do a reverse prompting off my texts (asking me to clarify everytime it detects ambiguity) I could fork down from a specific bubble into other chats, like “threads” (this doesn’t solve my text to essay problem at all but it does help expanding and creating more material, which is also worth looking into) This was way too long. Ok bye. /messages/2025-07-08-0952/ /messages/2025-07-08-0952/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:52:00 GMT Quick update on the Trimui Brick situation This thing is awesome! Well, the ergonomics are quite bad but vertical handheld always had this issue to me, and it’s made worse by the fact this specific handheld is tiny… Having said that, it does fit in any pocket And it can play anything comfortably up to the PSX I even managed to run Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast) on it with no issue… Right now though, I’m replaying Zelda Minish Cap and just started Mother 3 (fan translation). Bye /messages/2025-06-24-1326/ /messages/2025-06-24-1326/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:26:00 GMT I just bought a second-hand emulation handheld device off Mercari It’s called the Trimui Brick It looks like a slicker GameBoy My plan is to install MinUI on it as well as some essential classics. I’m sure the device will become an Apotris machine at some point but it will be interesting to show some old games to my kids and see how they respond to them. /messages/2025-06-10-1209/ /messages/2025-06-10-1209/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 03:09:00 GMT Note to self Do not ever eat anything from an all-you-can-eat buffet Ever, in any under circumstances Don’t do it! It’s a trap. It will make you sick 🤢 /messages/2025-06-03-2009/ /messages/2025-06-03-2009/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:09:00 GMT Added RSS to this site 🌈 Here’s the feed /messages/2025-05-29-1746/ /messages/2025-05-29-1746/ Thu, 29 May 2025 08:46:00 GMT Elden Ring Nightreign about to drop! Going to jump in with 2 tarnished friends Maybe I’ll write a small bubble-chat-based review See how it goes… 🤞 /messages/2025-05-29-1646/ /messages/2025-05-29-1646/ Thu, 29 May 2025 07:46:00 GMT I’m about halfway done with my Kyoto guide I will publish it here on this website I’m so excited about it because you see After you’ve lived in a city for a while Extended family and friends will sometimes message you to get your tips and tricks… And actually most of these are not even direct It would be like my mum or my sister bullying me to help their friends And at the beginning I’ll be like, ok fine, and write a whole thing that’s personalized But after 10 years it got old So now I’ll have this link ready to go muahaha (machiavelic laugh) /messages/2025-05-26-1137/ /messages/2025-05-26-1137/ Mon, 26 May 2025 02:37:00 GMT That new Fantasy Life game looks like… A grinding good time! Level 5 used to be one of my favorite game dev Then mobile games happened… But, with this, it seems they are finally back! I love watching tons of little progress bars go up I don’t know, it’s a condition with me at this point 🤭 /messages/2025-05-24-1007/ /messages/2025-05-24-1007/ Sat, 24 May 2025 01:07:00 GMT I added dark and light modes. But then I got a bit sidetracked and added other themes. Right now I’m just swapping colors and fonts but maybe, maybe in the future I will also change the layout slightly. Also updated the colophon /messages/2025-05-22-1446/ /messages/2025-05-22-1446/ Thu, 22 May 2025 05:46:00 GMT I’ve been playing Remnant 2 coop with a friend lately on Gamepass It’s really great! It’s Resident Evil and Dark Souls had a baby except it’s coop. I expected nothing from it and I am kinda amazed by how much fun we’re having with it. Maybe that’s the secret ingredient to enjoying games again. The lack of expectations… /messages/2025-05-22-1138/ /messages/2025-05-22-1138/ Thu, 22 May 2025 02:38:00 GMT Actually Obsidian wasn’t it… It would scan my folder again and again upon startup Trying out another Markdown app called Markdown Pro right now I also made a script that detects changes to my messages folder on my iCloud Drive and pushes to GitHub automatically Maybe a bad idea? /messages/2025-05-22-1038/ /messages/2025-05-22-1038/ Thu, 22 May 2025 01:38:00 GMT Testing writing messages from my phone Synced Obsidian via iCloud Now I wondering how I could push from mobile… /messages/2025-05-21-1438/ /messages/2025-05-21-1438/ Wed, 21 May 2025 05:38:00 GMT So instead of publishing the site What did I do, you think? I removed tailwindcss and postcss and converted everything to vanilla CSS Péter dans un verre d’eau, tu connais ? /messages/2025-02-10-1438/ /messages/2025-02-10-1438/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:38:00 GMT So I did ended up waiting for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 It’s just as amazing as the first one so far There’s really nothing like it, 10/10 /messages/2025-01-31-2358/ /messages/2025-01-31-2358/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:58:00 GMT I need a big meaty RPG that’s not BG3 Should I pull the trigger on DA: The Veilguard? Or maybe wait til Kingdom Come Deliverance 2? I loved the first one A medieval RPG where you go from peasant to hero Yeah let’s wait, it’s just 4 more days… /messages/2025-01-31-2313/ /messages/2025-01-31-2313/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:13:00 GMT I am unable to use my laptop on the go for more than 30min without triggering this dull pain in my right arm I think it’s the trackpad and the keyboard I have the Glove80 in my office. Typing without it feels wrong now. I could maybe buy a portable mouse for when I’m on the go at least… /messages/2025-01-30-1309/ /messages/2025-01-30-1309/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:09:00 GMT I want this to be my personal website. But I also want to show some of my work stuff. I find it pretty hard to conciliate both lives together on a website. That’s why for the longest time I always had two sites. A personal fucked up one. And a professional portfolio. I wonder if I could merge both of my worlds here… /messages/2025-01-28-1621/ /messages/2025-01-28-1621/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:21:00 GMT Hey… I want my website to help me think. I don’t want to have to think to help my website, if that makes sense. Blogging… never really worked for me. Blogging assumes you already did all of the thinking and are able to formulate it, grrr; I have attention deficit just thinking about that And then I stumbled upon this blog by artist and designer anhvn and I thought the chat bubbles format was genius. I reached out to her on Mastodon and she kindly told me it was ok to borrow the idea Actually, she wrote about this in a post from 2022 One of her inspiration, Max Krieger, who also seems brilliant BTW, and ends up his post quoting The Tools for Conviviality from Ivan Illich 😎 I’m not very good at writing formal English, but I’m a pretty decent chatter So I’m gonna try this and see. /messages/2025-01-23-1445/ /messages/2025-01-23-1445/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:45:00 GMT Hello world Lolololol Shit’s about to get omega weird in here!!! For posterity, I’m leaving my test messages. I’ll deal with the embarassment later.