Posts

Being introduced to a nine-seater and automatic transmission while driving a full van along Brittany’s winding roads for four days.

Why coding agents prematurely declare victory, and why the agent that wrote the code can’t be the one to sign off on it.

How a decade of manual budget tracking led to PennyBird, a private, local-first expense app built around useful friction

A practical system for getting reliable results from AI coding agents by managing context and runtime.

Isolate outside-world interactions behind interfaces so tests stay fast and reliable

A year-end overview of how I use AI for daily software work

Why bike touring hooked me: hardship, freedom, and brief moments of magic

A proposal for “trust as a service” to help Tunisians abroad care for parents back home

The guilt of leaving home and the need for a durable support network

My Goodreads-based system for finding, tagging, buying, and picking what to read next

Uptime is a business decision—align reliability targets with real needs and costs

A question for startups: are you building technology or using it to solve a problem?

Good contributions blend in: prioritize consistency over cleverness

Monoliths are fine—choose microservices only when requirements justify the complexity

A quick burnout check and the steps to recover before it’s too late

Resist the shiny new tool: every added service becomes future maintenance

Ten years after my father’s sudden death, I reflect on grief, regret, and how it changed the way I value time

From “I don’t dance” to joining Bordeaux’s summer dance crowds

A turbulent 2017—burnout and breakup, plus the habits that helped me recover

After my father’s death, the five-year plan that got me to Europe

What I learned coaching first-time coders at Django Girls Bordeaux

Processing my father’s sudden death while struggling through school—grief, regret, and a new reality