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TL;DR: I’m building a new prototype of a social media news consumption product. It’s called Echochamber.ai, and I’m documenting the process. 0. The context: the concept and failed attempts. I left you about 3 years ago after (yet) another failed reboot of Echochamber.ai. I am still focused on the same idea; Users would be interested in receiving digest links from a different perspective on topics…
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. No responsive design. No Javascript…
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…
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 in receiving weekly…
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 positive. I would regularly pitch the idea, and people would grasp it instantly (or…
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 digest of 5 news based on relevant issues for you…
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:
Hello and welcome to my site :-) My name is Thomas, I’m a (French & Lebanese) software engineer based in London, UK. I’ve started to build my first homepage on Geocities (I sadly lost my Neighbourhood id). Then ran a couple of heavy metal bands fansites as a teenager, which pushed me to learn the first basics of PHP and MySQL . This put me on the web development track as a computer…
I’m learning to use Jenkins. If you’re reading this, it means my 1st build worked. Here is my inspiration, with a complete tutorial.
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 recycled an old presentation for…
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 intelligence and health technologies. We are building deep…
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…
The only constant in life is Change, and 2017 is currently confirming this rule for me. More to come soon but as for now the main change here is the hosting for this blog which is now living in the cloud (or more specifically on AWS).
Earlier this year, I’ve been asked to explain how end-to-end encryption is working for a non-technical audience (think of computer litterate people who do not know that much of geek stuff outside or their MSOffice package). The only constrain was time (10 minutes maximum). That was very interesting experience and brought great prompt for more discussions. I thought the presentation support…
Hi there. Long time no see. I’ve been busy but is working on getting back to writing :-) Meanwhile I’ve been geeking a bit with Docker.I wanted a practical exercise so why not trying to host a website on it. This blog is now served from a Docker container on a Digital Ocean VPS. I’ve also deployed a Let’s Encrypt certificate. This blog is now full HTTPS Yay :) Links and…
At the beginning of the month I attended the first Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia (which took place over the Circumvention Tech Festival last year) for a week in the sunny Valencia. Thumbs up to Open Tech Fund and IREX teams for making this happen and bringing such a crowd of wide range of people connected to the online freedom fight space. I’m going to quite a few of these events…
I’m a big fan of documentaries. One of the recent ones I’ve been watching lately is the 15 billion the 3 parts BBC one about Crossrail Elizabeth line. 3 episodes for a total of 3 hours on this astonishing and engineering work under a living (and buzzing) city. Breath-taking. It makes you feel quite humble about your day-to-day work and want to switch to civil engineering almost…
Still learning how to manage my “One Thing I Learned everyday” process. I could talk about some important matters I discovered today, but it’s friday evening and I’m joining friends later so I’ll write about beer. As you know I love beer (and heavy metal)! Here are a couple of things I learnt on beer recently. Brewdog has opened a share plan. For the occasion, they…
First of the What I Learnt Today, let’s start with something easy :-) A couple of technical resources for your servers : Hardenining your website with some easy to setup htaccess rules That One Privacy Guy’s VPN Comparison Chart Update Your Wordpresses through command line
Hi! Welcome to my new blog. Yes! A new blog in 2016. As much as I’ve been working with and for media professionals for more than 7 years, both in developing countries and main media, I lost the habit of writing (which I used to have). For whatever reason I never manage to get to write in a 140 characters format, or on a third party branded platform. I need a place I own and control…
Now setting up Prose. With file attachment. Not optimal yet.
Am still playing with Hugo. A couple of things I’m trying to implement. Continuous integration setup with Wercker. Debug theme (bullet points are missing on the homepage). Better integration with Prose. Theme based template for Hugo (later). So I have achieved the following setup. Thanks Atchai. Am documenting the process here so I can share it with friends. The website you are reading is…
My first post from a static generator file. I am riding a fixie on Internet :-)
I document here what my life currently looks like. See nownownow.com to learn about the concept. 2025-11-05 My first nownownow entry. I am still looking for my way here. Work Been freelancing for about 6 weeks now, until the end of the year. I am working for a big corporation but at least I’m discovering Web3 and crypto world. I am also spending some time trying to figure out what 2026 will…