Rafik Draoui
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Rafik Draoui
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Maker & mender of software, amateur sailor, and dabbling ceramicist, amongst other things / Auteur & rénovateur de logiciels, marin amateur, et céramiste néophyte, entre autres choses

Currently living on the shores of Mahone Bay in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)
There's still trimming, bisque firing, glazing, and glaze firing ahead, each of which is another opportunity for wrecking the piece. I've learned to not get attached to anything until I see it out of the last firing 😅
January 23, 2026 at 12:08 AM
$ jj commit -m "..."
$ jj b set sentry-upgrade -r @-
$ jj git push --allow-new

You can also set `git.push-new-bookmarks = true` in your settings to avoid having to pass `--allow-new` manually every time.
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One day I'll act on my idea to go to Halifax with my bike for a long weekend! I love the trails and small coastal roads of the South Shore, but I miss city biking!

(and also, it would be nice to go to Halifax for a reason other than "errands" or "catching a train or a plane"!)
July 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Back in 2019, I often saw rabbits when biking late at night on the Lower Don River trail next to the train tracks. I don't recall seeing them anywhere else, but I moved away from Toronto in 2020, so they might have spread further since then!
July 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
On the South Shore of Nova Scotia where I live, there was a superstition that the first four-leaf clover found in a season shouldn't be plucked, but instead bitten off the ground! Described in a delightful book of folklore gathered in the 1940s.
June 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is still mostly the situation in Québec on July 1! (which conveniently happens to be a holiday) There's no law mandating it (and there hasn't been for decades), but somehow it persists! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_...
Moving Day (Quebec) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The book is still on my "to-read" shelf, so I can't truly recommend it yet for your "evocative universes" book list, but from reading its back cover I think that "Stone of Aran: Labyrinth" by Tim Robinson might fit (but I won't know for a few weeks/months until I get to read it!)
March 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It was either the rebasing, or else being able to easily moving changes to the correct commit with a command like `jj squash --into x` or `jj rebase -r x --before y`.

Basically, the fact that if I can think about what I want to do, there's an intuitive command that does exactly what I want!
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Rebasing all of my in-progress "branches" on top of the latest trunk with a single command.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Maison de la littérature in Québec's old town is a modern space full of natural light inside an ancient church. www.bibliothequedequebec.qc.ca/bibliotheque...
Maison de la littérature
www.bibliothequedequebec.qc.ca
February 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The library in Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) is in a wooden Victorian building with creaky floors! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunenbu...
Lunenburg Academy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I saw a copy in a used books store two years ago, read the first sentence, and that was enough to convince me to buy it :)
January 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM