TheFrenchGhosty’s Blog

Introduction This blog post is an indirect follow-up to a blog post I made back in December 2025 about the “artistic objects” I enjoyed in 2025. This blog post is gonna be about various “artistic objects” I’ve enjoyed from January 2026 to June 2026 (included). Spoilers will be minimal. Some important context I’ve watched far less movies and played far less video games in the last few months, the reason is that I had a complete and massive fallout with my (at the time) best (online) friends with who I was watching most things. ...

Recently I was made aware that a new video codec was released: AV2 And it genuinely annoyed me. I ended up having a discussion/rant about it, and this blog post is basically a summary of that. For reference, I’ve been messing around with/learning about codecs and file formats for nearly 20 years, so my annoyance comes with reasons. It’s Happening yet Again For people not knowing exactly what AV2 is, I’ll try to explain it simply: AV2 is a video codec, a codec is basically a “format” / set of standards in which you store media. ...

This blog post exists to announce that I have a new project. The Project Trakt (the movies/shows tracker) has recently gone the enshitification route: Their new UI is awful: It’s missing specific views (like season view for TV shows), the list of your comments/reviews is gone, ratings are now out of 5… for reasons… seeing your watch history is now done 1 week at a time, you can’t rate seasons anymore… and so much more. People are complaining about it, but the staff isn’t listening (and actually banned a lot of people from their forums… and often from the actual website too)… It also removed features and became hostile to free users (then again, paid users also lost features, like automatic data export - and some of the banned people were paid users). This is probably the (second) worst UI redesign I ever saw. It feels (and surely is) vibe coded… So I fixed the UI by only using them for scrobble and making my own UI from their data export, in pure markdown: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/trakt-export-to-markdown ...

This blog post exists to announce that I have written a new article on my Wiki, because having that specific article on my Wiki makes more sense than having it as a blog post. If you want to read it, it’s available on https://wiki.thefrenchghosty.me/macos/delete-dsstore-files-automatically/

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5691670 Trakt: https://trakt.tv/movies/under-the-silver-lake-2018 A Masterpiece of Cinema, about Cinema This is one of the hardest movies I’ve ever needed to write about. This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. This blog post was originally written back in early January 2026 and I wanted to edit it because it was too “raw”, but I think the “rawness” of it fits the movie, so I just decided to release it almost as is, nearly untouched. ...