Welcome to my personal website
A little bit about me
I am a software engineer coming from the world of robot's localization, but at ease with all aspects of software engineering. Languages where I am the most at ease includes C++, Java & Python. My favorite language is Rust, with which I do all my side-projects. I have also done Javascript, Matlab and quite a bit of Swift in my earliest programming experiences. Here, you'll find information about projects that I have done, some ways to contact me, and (maybe if I have time) some thoughts and opinions that I have to share (As it happens, I am a nature lover that is pretty scared about our future due to the climate crisis and I would like to write about it)
Personal links
- My Github account contains the code that I am allowed to share.
- My LinkedIn account
- My lichess account if you want to play chess games with me ♟️
Even more about me
I am passionate about what I do: programming and computer-science. I like the most Rust and C++ but really, any kind of programming is cool. In the last few years, I programmed in my free time two chess engines with a UI to play with them, a text editor, a 3D game-engine, a website generator (used to build this site), participated in several coding challenges such as advent-of-codes, the google's FooBar challenge or Euler project.
In the rest of my free time, I like
- All kind of carbon-free muscle-powered travels: hiking, trekking, biking, bike touring, ski touring
- Endurance sports: running, trail running, cycling
- Photography
- Playing chess
- Reading books about fantasies or fictions or ecology
- Good beers, good people, good coffee
- Camping outside, with or without tent
Why a personal website ?
As you can understand, this personal website is not a resume (though, you can find my resume here !), nor is it limited to a port-folio (though, you find many of my projects here!). I don't really know what it is about, to be very honest.
For most of my life, I was considered (and probably still am) as a nerd. Nerds have personal websites! I have loved technologies for all of my life (especially everything that involves computers), but I am also deeply scared for the future of another one of my favorite things on earth: the earth. Maybe this is a trial to see if I can (to some extremely limited extent) join both attractions.
More about how this page was built
This is my attempt to write an extremely lightweight, yet pleasant, personal website. It uses only the basics: HTML, CSS and (at the moment) not a single JS file. All of the this website is automatically generated from sources written in markdown, that are parsed using a small python script and then exported to their .html equivalent.
I use to have a personal website (which I was very happy about) written with the React framework gatsby. After not touching the code for 1 year and a half, it happened to have 195 broken dependencies. Just that. This experience made me mad about the current state of these newly shiny JS frameworks, and I ended up writing a personal website without any JS dependency.
It's simple. It works today. It would have worked 10 years ago. I hope it will work in 10 years.