Who are you?
I'm a French developper with way too much time on my hands.
I'm in my thirties, I like code, pizza and video games.
So you're not really a monkey?
Of course not. I'm a frog — I thought
we established that already.
Try and keep up please.
Why this site?
I wanted my own corner of the internet, and now I have it.
Mission accomplished I guess.
I built this site around two main categories:
projects ands
essays.
The former is about tech stuff I wanted to share.
The latter contains reflexions on software engineering as a whole.
I went with Astro for the engine, because a personal site does not need to ship several megabytes of JavaScript to its end-users.
What about the third category?
You don't wanna go there.
Noted. What about the name?
In America, you prompt the AI.
In Soviet Russia, the AI prompts you!
This is called a "Russian Reversal" and it's hilarious.
Thank God it's just a joke.
Tell us about your experience
I've been working in IT for more than a decade. At first in server rooms, then I pivoted to creating my own bugs. I've done most of my (server-side) work with Java and Node.
Client-side, the correct choice is obviously XSLT + HTMX, but I've been paid to use Angular.
As far as databases go (and they go pretty far nowadays) Postgres and SQLite are my go-tos.
If splitting your app into small chunks is your thing, I'll happily throw in Kafka and a couple of containers.
To think I learned to code to get a change from Ops in the first place…
So you like distributed systems?
I love them.
Event-driven microservices: Nobody call anybody, just yell into the void, somebody will be listening.
- Kai Lentit (x.com)
Still beats any monolith mistakenly and haphazardly distributed over HTTP.