Stéphane
Lambion —

I'm a writer, artist, designer & researcher, shaping words in London.


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Recent work

Currently

I am finishing a practice-based PhD in Arts and Social Sciences.

I cofounded Jetters, an art collective hosting monthly craft sessions in London.

I attend the London Permacomputing Club and I work on a project to promote ethical technology.

this now section was last updated on 06.12.25

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Aside from my practice, my main interest is degrowth and the many concepts that go with it: intentional friction, slowness, anticonsumerism... I prefer sharing over owning, repairing over replacing, caring over consuming. I am interested in sustainable and communal ways of living.

That also ties into my relationship to technology: I am interested in s·low tech and minimal computing, and permacomputing. Far from big corporations, I believe in an internet that is humane: a vast range of small websites rather than a small range of vast websites. I am curious about alternative ways of connecting on the internet.

Log

06.12.25 Redesigned this website—and this one is designed to last. Just like these websites that haven't changed since the 90s.

28.11.25 Attended Brewing Permacomputing Clubs at Stroom Den Haag (NL).

Friends with websites

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I like old photos, blueprints, maps, handwritten notes, arrows, brutalist architecture, pouches and cases, weird Unicode characters, traditional Georgian music, very tiny things, tracing paper, playing cards, Linux, diagrams, instruction manuals, old emulators, torn paper and lists.

Aside from my practice, I enjoy climbing, cycling and cooking.

education & programmes

“If I was a writer, and dead, I would so like my life to be reduced, through the care of a friendly and detached biographer, to a few details, a few tastes, a few inflections - let's call them biographemes.” R.B.

give me three oranges
and I’ll juggle for you

I truly hate
artist statements

I’m still hoping to
finish my PhD someday

ticket inspectors are
the scum of the earth

“my heart is french
but my arse is international”

the coldest winter i’ve known
was in the south of france

my level of happiness
depends on my ability to cycle

why have a cardamom bun when
you can have a cinnamon one

my most listened song lasy year
was white flag by dido (…)

i was born in brussels
but i’ve never lived there

everything i own
fits in one bag

if you see a green jacket
that might be me

Uses

I care about the tools I use. They are (almost) all free, open source, and ethical. My choices are led by a principle of simplicity and resilience: I use as few apps as possible, and I always go for the simplest option. I avoid services based on subscription models (also known as creative rent, preventing you from owning your tools).

I have a second-hand MacBook Air running on Linux (Fedora) thanks to the t2linux project. I have niri as my composer and DankMaterialShell as my desktop shell. My phone is a second-hand Pixel phone running on Graphene OS.

I mainly use my computer to edit text (writing, notes, code), which I do in Vim, running inside Ghostty as my terminal. All my notes are plain Markdown and I use Yazi (or plain bash) to navigate and manage files. The Vim plugins I added (with vim-plug) are Goyo, NERDTree, Startify, vim-markdown, vim-bookmarks, Limelight and vim-wayland-clipboard. All the programmes mentioned in this paragraph are styled with the lovely Catppuccin Frappé.

I use rclone to sync my most frequently used folders on my cloud (Koofr), which doesn't contain more than 10Mb of data. For the other files, I do a weekly backup on an encrypted thumb drive. I use Cryptpad when I need to collaborate with people.

All my music is stored as local mp3 files (cheekily downloaded with yt-dlp or bought on Bandcamp) that I play with mpv directly in my terminal. Regularly, I copy my music on my phone, on which I use Auxio. Most of the time though, I will just listen to NTS Radio, and at the moment I actually listen to podcasts more than I listen to music. For that, I use AntennaPod.

I use Proton for emails (and VPN) and Signal for messagging (and here is my public key, should it come in handy).

I have Firefox as my main browser on my computer (with uBlock Origin to block ads, I Still Don't Care About Cookies to get rid of those annoying banners, and Bitwarden to store passwords). On my phone, I use Vanadium. My main search engine is DuckDuckGo.

For navigation, I use OpenStreetMap on my computer and CoMaps on my phone, with RHVoice as a text-to-speech synthesiser.

I am interested in CSS as a graphic design tool, so I use that for basic jobs. When it gets a bit too complicated, I'll use Figma, and will keep doing so as long as they refuse Adobe's offers to buy them.

Here are some other utilities I use regularly: tldr for commands I'm not familiar with; topgrade to upgrade everything on my computer with one command; lftp to transfer files to servers; pandoc to convert files (especially Markdown to PDF). I also have fastfetch to make people believe I'm knowledgeable about computers.

I use paper and pen for my calendar and my todo lists.

this uses section was last updated on 06.12.25

Colophon

This website was made ☞ with my own hands ☜. It uses vanilla html/css, no js and only valid code. The type is set in Sligoil by Ariel Martín Pérez for the body and PicNic by Mariel Nils for the headings.

The concept behind the structure draws inspiration from Doriane's website as well as Benjamin Earl's. Adopting a grid layout helps me embody effectively the fluidity of my practice and the variety of ways in which I work with words.

None of your data is being collected and no cookies are stored on your computer. No AI was used to make this website and its carbon footprint is very low. It is hosted on a green server in France.

I don't use static site generators, partly because I'm not a programmer and I don't have a very good understanding of how they work, partly because I love coding by hand. Even when making a website for a friend, I prefer to do it with them sitting next to me, so I can explain what I'm doing and teach them a bit—just enough for them to be able to update their pages and understand what's going on under the hood. That's one way to spread HTML energy and code in situ.

The current version of this website was made during the winter 2025 in London. It rained a lot; the sound of the rain on the warehouse's roof was both beautiful and scary.

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