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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. ...

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14205554 Trakt: https://trakt.tv/movies/kpop-demon-hunters-2025 Better than I thought, worse than the hype made it out to be A friend wanted me to watch it (he did watch it before), and my curiosity made me agree to. Half an hour in, I genuinely wanted to stop but I never stop mid-movie, and in this case, I was right to continue. The movie does get better. So yeah… the first 30 minutes - basically the first act - are bad, nearly unwatchable, with bad (over-hectic) pacing, mediocre writing and forced jokes. But if you get through that, the rest of the movie is alright - it’s not great, it’s not bad, but it’s fine. ...

Introduction Some people have recently mentioned to me that almost all my blog about “artistic objects” have been mostly negative. I have decided for the end of this year, to do a blog post where I recommend stuff I loved this year! For reference, this idea started because someone asked me for movies I actually like (after my last blog post), and when I sent a list and they commented it, I ended up asking “Do you think the only thing I watch is the (mostly slop) I blog about?” ...