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.
I'm closing in on 5 years of experience as a back-end and cloud oriented software developper.
I recently launched my own consultancy company, and no longer work in a salaried position.
2026 and 2027 will be pivotal and high risk-taking years for me, but I'm excited.
2026 is the year I move to live in Tallinn, Estonia, Since 2024, I've visited Finland six times, I feel a deep connection with the country, the people and their way of being. Along the way I discovered Estonia -- the place the Finns recommended me to visit -- and felt a similar connection. It is so relaxing being in this region of the world, it is uncomparable to France; to the point even that France feels like a second-world country.
Though I've lived most my recent life in France, I've grown less and less attached to the region of Montpellier.
I'll admit, I never truly was in the first place ; the important friends I've made there will be the only reason I will visit again.
I'm happy to finally have obtained my bachelor's degree in computer science.
This has been possible after two years of hard work, and I'm extremely proud of myself.
I got this diploma on the 12th of January 2026.
I've made a point to live on my own terms.
More specifically, I've had the tendancy over the last 15 years to not act out of consideration/empathy/sympathy for people around me.
This overly-compassionate and relativistic identity brought out mostly inaction and disappointments.
Live the life you want, don't let your considerations for other's rule out something that's important to you.
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 working on bringing live Mahjong to the scene in Tallinn, and have created a club.
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.
Nowadays, with the advent of AI coding, I feel like I can quickly iterate on this blog without it being a time-sink.
Since the advent of AI, I must admit LISP programming has been put on the backburner, but it still earned a mention on this page.
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.