Gemini CLI: A Fresh Setup Guide

The Problem: When “Easy Install” Isn’t Easy I recently decided to set up the Gemini CLI on my Windows 11 machine. I watched a bunch of videos, and for everyone else, it seemed to be a simple, one-command installation. That was not my experience. My journey started with an npm command that failed due to security policies, and then led me down a rabbit hole of environment variables and cloud settings. This isn’t another “perfect world” tutorial. This is the real guide to what can go wrong and exactly how to fix it. ...

July 9, 2025  · 5 min · 1001 words

The Easy Way to Find and Sync Subtitles

In a continuation of my earlier post about how watching movies and cartoons in French helps my child improve their language skills, I ran into a problem that many language learners (and movie lovers) eventually face: subtitle desynchronization. 👉 Read the first post here: How French Movies Help My Child Learn the Language The Problem Let’s take a real example — a movie I recently bought sealed for only €2: The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro* (2014), directed by Marc Webb. We really enjoyed the original trilogy with Tobey Maguire, and this reboot felt like a great addition. ...

June 3, 2025  · 3 min · 541 words