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294    <p><code>Last Update: August 12th, 2026</code></p>
295<h1 id="what-im-up-to-now">What I&rsquo;m up to now…</h1>
296<h2 id="-location">📍 Location</h2>
297<p>Still in Paris, year 7 — and spending this particular week deliberately not leaving it. <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/12/the-start-to-our-august.html">We booked a proper staycation</a> in the neighbourhood instead of joining the August exodus: same bed every night, tourist energy by day, zero train stations involved. The city is at its emptiest and, honestly, its best.</p>
298<p><img src="https://www.tibz.blog/uploads/2026/fe718f3d3c.jpg" alt="Auto-generated description: A couple shares an intimate and joyful moment outside a café, with the woman gently holding the man&rsquo;s face as they smile warmly at each other."></p>
299<p>One unexpected perk of living where we do: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/10/the-weeknd-is-playing-nights.html">The Weeknd played three nights at the Stade de France</a> and we could hear most of the gig with the windows open. Same thing happened with Beyoncé and AC/DC in previous summers. Free live audio FTW!</p>
300<h2 id="-life">🏠 Life</h2>
301<p>🩵 Azul is 2.5 and starts <em>maternelle</em> in September, which is the kind of milestone that makes you recount the years twice just to be sure you got it right.</p>
302<p>📷 Shana and I <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/10/got-ourselves-some-summer-toys.html">got ourselves some summer toys</a> — a pair of Kodak CharmEra keychain cameras, bought specifically to make things together away from our phones. <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/11/first-shots-are-in-a.html">The first shots are in</a> and they&rsquo;
302re wonderfully bad in exactly the right way. They live on my keyring now, next to the house keys.</p>
303<p><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/441/2026/0375645c6d.jpg" alt="Several Kodak CharmEra keychain digital cameras and Kodak 64 GB microSD cards are placed on a marble surface next to a woven mat and a folded fabric."></p>
304<p>🚲 New bike, and the best €50 I&rsquo;ve spent this year: my neighbour was selling her father&rsquo;s vintage road bike, an 80s/90s steel frame that had been sitting untouched for years. I sent it to the shop earlier this month for a full service and a few upgrades, and I&rsquo;m genuinely excited about it — solo rides and commutes on a bike with some history to it, all summer and fall!<br>
305<img src="https://www.tibz.blog/uploads/2026/1513804cf8.jpg" alt="A yellow road bicycle with saddlebags is parked next to a bench with plants on a brick-paved sidewalk."></p>
306<p>🏃 🏀 The leg is fully back after the March muscle tear — <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/05/12/first-run-since-the-my.html">the first run post-injury</a> went well in May, and Thursday-night pickup basketball is firmly back on the calendar. I&rsquo;ve been able to play basketball, football, run, &hellip;we are SO BACK!</p>
307<p>☕ The <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/06/04/new-project-brewing-rarely-felt.html">coffee project</a> is still brewing — quietly, slowly, and still the thing I&rsquo;ve felt most aligned with in a long time. More on that one day in the future.</p>
308<p>📚 The unexpected win of the summer: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/18/over-the-best-few-weeks.html">the network of local public libraries</a> around us. Finding good English-language books here used to be genuinely hard, and the graphic novel selection turned out to be excellent. I&rsquo;ve read 26 books this year against a goal of 10, almost entirely because I stopped buying and started borrowing.</p>
309<p>🌏 Also: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/20/love-running-errands-in-the.html">running errands in the 13th</a> remains one of my favourite low-effort Paris afternoons. Bánh mì, a can of pandan soy milk, done.</p>
310<h2 id="-work">💼 Work</h2>
311<p>I&rsquo;m leaving <a href="https://itonics-innovation.com">ITONICS</a> later this fall, and going back to my startup roots.</p>
312<p>It&rsquo;s been a genuinely good and interesting run — including when <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/04/22/incredible-customer-feedback-today-my.html">a customer emailed my manager, our CEO and our co-founder</a> entirely unprompted, which is the kind of thing I&rsquo;ll be taking with me. I&rsquo;ll share the new role and company later this year.</p>
313<p>Until then: <a href="https://tibz.blog/work"><code>/work</code></a> or <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/thibaultlemaitre/en">LinkedIn</a>.</p>
314<h2 id="-building">🛠️ Building</h2>
315<p>Still using and refining the <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/04/18/ive-been-building-little-guides.html">AI-assisted personal guides</a> — <a href="https://tibz.blog/paris">Paris</a>, <a href="https://tibz.blog/berlin">Berlin</a>, <a href="https://tibz.blog/coffee">coffee</a>, <a href="https://tibz.blog/workout">workout</a>, and the <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/recipes.html">shared recipes page</a>. All one tap away from my iPhone Control Center. The coffee one is the one I actually open every week, which tells me something about which of these was really for me.</p>
316<h2 id="-play">🎮 Play</h2>
317<h3 id="recent-recommendations">Recent recommendations:</h3>
318<ul>
319<li>
320<p>📚 <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/itibz">StoryGraph</a> — I went through Kieron Gillen&rsquo;s entire <strong>DIE</strong> run in three weeks, all of it borrowed from the local Public Library: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/20/finished-reading-die-vol-mortelle.html">Vol. 1</a> (★★★★¾), <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/11332168-c6cb-4c38-96da-f29bfd498739">Vol. 2</a>, <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b9779952-0e95-4d68-8892-5fa0d52906ea">Vol. 3</a>, and <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/12/finished-reading-die-vol-bleed.html">Vol. 4</a> finished today — an epic final act, and <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/10/stephanie-hans-the-queen-that.html">Stephanie Hans</a> is the queen that she is.</p>
321</li>
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323<p>Also loved <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/18/finished-reading-in-waves-by.html"><em>In Waves</em> by A. J. Dungo</a> (★★★★¾) and <strong>Hmong</strong> by Vicky Lyfoung (★★★★¼).</p>
324</li>
325<li>
326<p>Currently reading: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/19/currently-reading-sonny-boy-a.html"><em>Sonny Boy</em></a>, Al Pacino&rsquo;s memoir, on audiobook and nearly finished. I had some Audible credit going spare and it turned into the best thing I&rsquo;ve listened to all year — narrated by the man himself, which changes it completely. Hearing him tell his own life and anecdotes in his own voice sent me straight back into his filmography. Also going: <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3fef411f-7940-42c6-8e60-9333af0efb11"><em>Soft Core</em></a> by Brittany Newell, and <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f71dd985-b5cd-4fda-a3e6-f45eb37875d6"><em>Tonight in Jungleland</em></a>, the making of <em>Born to Run</em>, which I started in January and am 17% into. I usually read at night when putting my daughter down, so ebooks on Kindle are easier than paper, for which I need an additional light.</p>
327</li>
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329<p>Up next, once I finish <em>Soft Core</em>: <strong><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/708e17d5-0e39-425c-89be-dbec0ffba19e">Yesteryear</a></strong> by Caro Claire Burke, the tradwife-influencer satire everyone has been talking about since the spring. I&rsquo;m not usually one for a book hype train, but Shana read it with her book club and rated it highly, and that&rsquo;s a far better recommendation than any list.</p>
330</li>
331<li>
332<p>🎶 <a href="https://www.last.fm/user/tibzback">Last.fm</a> — surprise of the month: <strong>Kacey Musgraves</strong> is my most-played artist by a mile, mostly <em>Middle of Nowhere</em> and its run of duets with Willie Nelson, Billy Strings and Miranda Lambert. Turns out a lifelong pop-punk head can pivot to country in about a week. Post Malone&rsquo;s <em>F-1 Trillion</em>
332 and Shaboozey are in the same lane.</p>
333<p>The other half of the month was pure nostalgia: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/24/incredible-mail-day-the-thanniversary.html">the 15th-anniversary Zoetrope reissue of My Chemical Romance&rsquo;s <em>Danger Days</em></a> landed and sent me straight back through <em>The Black Parade</em> and <em>Three Cheers</em>. Right kind of special edition — not a €200 box set.</p>
334<p><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/441/2026/img-4310.jpg" alt="A vinyl record of My Chemical Romance&rsquo;s album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is shown along with colorful, graphic art pieces related to the album&rsquo;s theme."></p>
335<p>Also: five <strong>Sum 41</strong> albums, every one of Weezer&rsquo;s <em>SZNZ</em> EPs, a <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/04/yoooooo-remember-flobots-httpsyoutubehluxyepta.html">Flobots</a> rabbit hole out of nowhere, and Muse&rsquo;s <em>The Wow! Signal</em> <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/07/very-excited-about-mail-day.html">on vinyl</a>
335 — that copy was launched to the edge of space in March, which I will not be getting over.</p>
336</li>
337<li>
338<p>📺 <a href="https://trakt.tv/users/itibz">Trakt</a> — finally finished <em><strong>The Madison</strong></em> season 1, and it was a refreshing blast: <em>This Is Us</em> dropped into a <em>Yellowstone</em> world. Can&rsquo;t wait for season 2. Its soundtrack quietly became one of my most-played records of the month, which tells you how much it got under my skin. Now deep into a <strong>The Wire</strong> rewatch — down to season 3.</p>
339<p><strong>X-Men &lsquo;97</strong> season 2 has been the appointment watch; I&rsquo;m through <em>The Dead Man&rsquo;s Hand</em> and the finale drops today. <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/08/welcome-back-ted-lasso-old.html"><strong>Ted Lasso</strong> is back for season 4</a> — welcome back, old friend. And I&rsquo;m catching up on <strong>Your Friends &amp; Neighbors</strong> season 2 with Shana too. Next up: For All Mankind / Star City.</p>
340<p><img src="https://www.tibz.blog/uploads/2026/06f21099c6.jpg" alt="Auto-generated description: A woman with closed eyes stands outdoors against a backdrop of mountains and a river, promoting the new series The Madison starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, streaming on Paramount+ starting March 14."></p>
341</li>
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343<p>🎬 <a href="https://letterboxd.com/tibz/">Letterboxd</a> — two big ones this month, both at <a href="https://letterboxd.com/tibz/tag/le-studio-aubervilliers/films/">my local cinema</a>. <a href="https://letterboxd.com/tibz/film/in-waves/"><em><strong>In Waves</strong></em></a> (★★★★½) was the highlight of my whole summer: I borrowed the graphic novel from the library in July, knowing that the movie would be screening three weeks later, down the road. Beautiful animation, touching story, and a genuinely great adaptation. Then <a href="https://letterboxd.com/tibz/film/the-odyssey/"><em><strong>The Odyssey</strong></em></a> (★★★★) — epic scale of the kind only Nolan really attempts anymore, closer to the big 1960s pictures than anything current. Not my favourite of his, but I&rsquo;m glad I caught it in a theatre in one sitting rather than at home.</p>
344<p>On the other end: <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/08/watched-springsteen-deliver-me-from.html"><em>Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere</em></a> got two stars from me. This ain&rsquo;t it — which stings, given the <em>Born to Run</em> book on my nightstand.</p>
345<p>The <strong>Godfather</strong> double bill at the end of July (★★★★½ and ★★★★) came straight out of the Al Pacino audiobook above — hearing him talk about making them made revisiting them feel almost compulsory. <em>Scarface</em> &amp; <em>Godfather III</em> are next, and I suspect this becomes a whole run.</p>
346<p>Also up: <strong>Spider-Man: Brand New Day</strong>, which finally reaches my little local theatre next week, a couple of weeks behind everywhere else. Reviews and ratings all live on <a href="https://letterboxd.com/tibz/films/diary/">the profile</a>.</p>
347</li>
348<li>
349<p>📰 <a href="https://theathletic.com/">The Athletic</a>, <a href="https://leparisien.fr">Le Parisien</a>, [L&rsquo;Équipe], <a href="https://www.apple.com/apple-news/">News+</a>. etc&hellip;</p>
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351</ul>
352<h3 id="live-shows">Live shows:</h3>
353<p><strong>Recently:</strong> <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/06/12/a-wonderful-night-for-the.html">Tom Misch at La Cigale</a> in June, capped with a late-night smash burger at <a href="https://www.10pigalle.fr/">Numéro 10</a>, and a solo concert date for <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/06/12/fantastic-night-out-at-olympia.html">Billy Talent at l&rsquo;Olympia</a>.</p>
354<p><strong>Coming up:</strong> <strong>A$AP Rocky</strong>, <strong>Simple Plan</strong>, <strong>J. Cole</strong> and <strong>Good Charlotte</strong> before the year is out.</p>
355<p>2027 is already stacking up too: <strong>Weezer</strong> in May with <strong>Taking Back Sunday</strong> opening — a genuinely unreasonable bill for anyone who was 15 in 2004, and well timed given how much Weezer I&rsquo;ve been playing lately. Then <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/06/23/looking-forward-to-the-next.html"><strong>Blink-182</strong> at La Défense Arena</a>
355 in June, with Pierce The Veil supporting.</p>
356<p><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/441/2026/26cf777bae.jpg" alt="Concert tickets display scheduled performances by A$AP Rocky, Simple Plan, J. Cole, and Good Charlotte in Paris, France, during late 2026."></p>
357<h3 id="sports">Sports:</h3>
358<p>⚽️ The <strong>World Cup</strong> is over, and it did not go our way. France lost the semi-final to Spain, then lost the bronze final to England 6–4 — a genuinely absurd scoreline, Saka hat-trick and all. Spain went on to beat Argentina 1–0 in extra time to lift it. No third star this time. <em>See you in 2030!</em> 🇫🇷</p>
359<p>🏀 <strong>Paris Basketball</strong> into the offseason, still processing: first in the regular season for the second year running, then the Betclic Élite final lost to Monaco in a decisive Game 5. But the rebuild is properly under way and the signings keep landing — <strong>T.J. Warren</strong>, former Nets guard <strong>Tyson Etienne</strong>, <strong>Alize Johnson</strong> in the frontcourt, plus <strong>Terry Tarpey</strong> and <strong>Mãozinha Pereira</strong>. Nadir, Jared Rhoden and Captain&rsquo;Seba are staying. And we just announced a brand new signing today, in the <em>French Prince</em> himself, <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/08/12/my-paris-basketball-is-signing.html">Frank Ntilikina</a>. Season ticket renewed, obviously.</p>
360<p>⚾ <strong>Baltimore Orioles</strong> sitting a few games under .500 in mid-August. Not thriving, not mathematically dead. <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/03/26/happy-mlbopeningday-folks-go-os.html">Go O&rsquo;s</a> regardless.</p>
361<h2 id="-things-im-thinking-about">💭 Things I&rsquo;m thinking about</h2>
362<ul>
363<li>Leaving a job you&rsquo;re actually good at, on purpose, because the shape of the work stopped matching the shape you want your life to have. Much harder than leaving one you hate.</li>
364<li>Which people show up when you make a decision <em>for yourself</em> — <a href="https://www.tibz.blog/2026/07/29/as-you-grow-in-life.html">the most useful thing I learned in July</a>, by some distance.</li>
365<li>Two cheap keychain cameras doing more for how Shana and I spend an evening than any app has in years. Friction as a feature, not a bug.</li>
366<li>Borrowing instead of buying and secondhand over <em>new</em>. Four DIE volumes in three weeks, none of them mine — and then the <em>In Waves</em> adaptation turning up at the cinema down the road a few weeks after I&rsquo;d returned the book. A very small, very satisfying loop.</li>
367<li>Azul starting school, and how much of the next decade that quietly sets in motion in one September morning.</li>
368<li>13+ years of this blog, still the least strategic thing I do, still the thing I&rsquo;d miss most.</li>
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