It's minimal, but I'm posting things.
This page has been inaugurated on 17th of October 2025.
Following on Derek Sivers' /now page idea, I also intend to make this page a nice overview of what I'd tell a friend I hadn't seen in a year.
This first edition of the page will be a little bit more broad than that.
I'm closing in on 5 years of experience as a server-oriented software developper ; Currently, I'm still in a salaried position, and am preparing my freelance business for a launch in the second half of 2026.
I was blessed to get started in software development without a degree ; and I've been hard at work for the past two years at my Bachelor's degree in IT and software development. If all goes as planned, I'll have this degree in 2026 :)
I've been living for roughly ten years in the south of France, Montpellier. I've grown less and less attached to the region -- I never truly was in the first place -- and have decided to move away in 2026. Why not now ? I'm collaborating with my employer to ensure a smooth transition with me leaving the team ; also I need some extra prep time for my freelancing business and working on my diploma.
Since 2024, I've visited Finland three times ; I feel a deep connection with the country, the people and their way of being. I've also visited Estonia which shares many similarities.
It's too early to say to what extent I am willing to relocate to Finland; I've considered it a couple times.
Mahjong is a fun and social game and I regularly play it's japanese variant, named Riichi Mahjong. Although I don't play (too) much online, I largely prefer IRL games. I am part of the Mahjong Club Montpellier's core team and play twice a week on average.
I'm still unsure what the goal of this blog is. At first I wanted it to become a purely technical blog to create some online presence for my upcoming business. For now, I'll just post the things I want to post and we will see where things go.
I made this blog using Java and Spring ; having pretty much total control over it will allow me to do some fun things.
I've learned to appreciate Lisp and some of it's dialects; they are fantastic languages! However, even after having studied Scheme and some Racket, I have not managed to get anything useful out of them yet...
That's why I decided to learn Clojure, a Lisp which compiles to JVM bytecode. It seems much more likely to enable me to make useful programs.