1. Introduction

I have been making websites since high school in the late 90s. I learnt to write HTML code on my father's old laptop (I even retrieved the tutorial I followed). I created my first page on Geocities (I sadly lost my Neighbourhood ID).

I'm telling you here about a time that those under twenty cannot know—no CMS. No frameworks. No CSS….

20 months later, this blog returns to life.

A lot has happened since we last spoke: I found a job and lost it. So, being in between contracts, I'm back on my blog.

Expect some more posts in the next couple of months.

On the tech side, I'm making a couple of changes as well. It's still generated by Hugo and running on AWS (S3). I migrated the generation to GitHub Actions, and I have started…

TL;DR: I'm building a new prototype of a social media product. It's called Echochamber.ai and I'm documenting the process.

After a 9 months hiatus, I finally rebooted my project last December. I finished my previous contract and decided to commit to it 3 months full time focusing on finalizing a prototype and validating my hypothesis: > Users would be interested…

TL;DR: I'm building a new prototype of a social media product. It's called Echochamber.ai and I'm documenting the process.

I left you in mid-March with the first prototype of my Echochamber.ai idea, which was, at best funny, at worst stupid. However, the feedback about the idea was significantly…

TL;DR: I'm building a new prototype of a social media product. It's called Echochamber.ai.

I've started to document the process here.

From the about page:

> Echochamber.ai is an anti-echo-chamber tool. First, we identify your topics of interest based on your Twitter profile and the accounts you follow. Then, we will send you a daily…

While having a bit of free time between 2 contracts last january, I decided to build a website for my own, the first time in 10 years. (it's a nerdy data visualisation about NBA data - if you follow this blog, you know I love basketball). Later in the year, I built another experiment website to track the things I'm not learning on Wikipedia everyday :-)).

The 2 links are here: -…

We have one ritual in my new job.

Every other Friday afternoon, one of us has to present a non-work related topic of its interest (usually 10-15 minutes). There is no limitation for that and we can cover whatever we want. The only detail is we usually bring a couple of nerf guns so things can get crazy in one way of the other. Anyway, it's really good fun.

I…

2018 is starting with as much changes as 2017 (well at least the blog is not moving host, I'm still happy with AWS). Lots of moving pieces on the personal and professional side too (as expected, my Chromebook is now taking the dust :-)).

I'm now head of engineering for a startup, working at the intersection of artificial…

Being in-between jobs, I needed a cheap laptop to be able to work outside of my flat in my favorite South London cafes.

I could have got a nice Macbook or the Ubuntu certified Dell XPS13 (or even a Thinkpad) but these tiny machines don't come cheap and there is a strong change that I would get a work laptop with my next job matching the same specs. So I'd rarther save a grand for a personal…