https://irz.fr/en/ Creativity, craft, tech, AI and people who make things. en https://irz.fr/en/articles/barca-modernista-typeface-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/barca-modernista-typeface-en Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FC Barcelona Modernista brings Catalan modernism into shirt names and numbers. The project gets interesting when local identity meets actual production and competition constraints. creative Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/benjamin-code-test-without-help-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/benjamin-code-test-without-help-en Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Benjamin Code watches a founder use his product for thirty minutes without rescuing her. Silences, wrong assumptions and lost state suddenly become very concrete bugs. ideas Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/learning-simd-without-needing-it-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/learning-simd-without-needing-it-en Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT ThePrimeagen learns SIMD even though his project does not need it. The point is not to force optimization everywhere, but to recognize the shape of a problem later. ideas Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/macbook-neo-memory-squeeze-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/macbook-neo-memory-squeeze-en Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The €699 MacBook Neo arrives during a sharp rise in DRAM prices. The interesting part is less the laptop itself than how vertical integration changes the available tradeoffs. tech Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/mcp-stateless-tools-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/mcp-stateless-tools-en Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT MCP 2026-07-28 removes protocol-level HTTP sessions. It sounds like plumbing, but it changes how naturally small agent tools can live on serverless infrastructure. ai Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/codeberg-vibe-coding-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/codeberg-vibe-coding-en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Codeberg is not banning AI. The forge is asking a more practical question: who pays for masses of generated code that nobody plans to maintain? tech Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/decoy-font-tattoo-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/decoy-font-tattoo-en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Decoy Font fits two readings into the same letters. Tattoo artist Olivier Poinsignon is testing what happens when that optical trick leaves the screen and runs into scale, curvature, grey ink and healing. craft Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/home-routines-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/home-routines-en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT To support his mother with early-onset Alzheimer’s, Benjamin Code pushes complexity away from her interfaces: keep the front simple and absorb failure behind it. tech Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/jake-laser-robot-chair-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/jake-laser-robot-chair-en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jake Laser mounted a seat on an industrial quadruped for his father. The prototype is shaky, spectacular and useful mainly for what it makes newly hackable. tech Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/tom-rochette-acceptance-gap-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/tom-rochette-acceptance-gap-en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The problem is no longer just getting an agent to do the work. It is getting the right evidence back so a human can decide whether to accept it. ai Arthur Lacoste https://irz.fr/en/articles/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet-en https://irz.fr/en/articles/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet-en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tom Stanton reports 346.4 m/s from his latest gravity-powered trebuchet. The entertaining number is only the endpoint of a better story: simulations, cheap prototypes, measurement, breakage and redesign. craft Arthur Lacoste