A few weeks ago, I officially launched Notewell, a platform that helps language teachers create personalized course materials for their students. This site is far from my first side project as a developer; yet it’s the first project I’ve managed to monetize. This (small) success made me put my finger on what I’d been missing …
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Since Claude Code came out, I’ve built a bunch of small personal projects in just a few days. But with code generation no longer being an issue, two problems remained: • checking that the AI hasn’t done something stupid• being able to deploy each project really fast without spending hours re-coding a CI/CD pipeline or …
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You don’t know what’s the real impact of something before you ditch it.That’s what I did with AI chatbots: they are great, but recently I felt the need to go on an “AI diet” for a while. I’m not an LLM expert, but as anyone using it for pretty serious stuff (work, coding, personal life), …
Here are the things I’ve learned over the last 7 years to thrive as a professional:
Docker multi-stage feature allows to make your dev environment as close to production as possible. While Docker is an industry standard for deploying web applications to production environments, it also comes in handy for local development. When you decide to use Docker for both purposes, a few concerns arise : Fortunately, Docker has a built-in …
Disclaimer: dirty hack here. I recently finished implementing the front end for my music website. I chose to use ReactJS. However, when I wanted to improve my website’s SEO, I started to run into a major issue that is inherent to React and Single Page Apps frameworks. The Problem In a nutshell, React is not …
If you plan to use Flask to build a JSON API (for instance a REST API), there are high chances you will end up using the following add-ons : This article will give you some insights into how to efficiently test a Flask application alongside these extensions. In particular, we will create a set of …
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