My First Post

Hi everyone!

This isn’t the first time I’ve hosted a website. But this is my first attempt at hosting a blog.

Back in 2002, when I was 16, I built my very first website using the famous LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). That’s how my journey into the tech world began.

I learned a lot from that first experiment. Back then, deployments were simple: you just dragged and dropped your files over FTP, and you were good to go. I used OVH and Infomaniak to host that website.

Fast forward to 2024: I started hosting my own Mastodon instance, deployed on AWS using Git, GitHub, Terraform, and more. I’ll write a dedicated blog post about that later, because it deserves one of its own.

And now, in 2026, I’m finally starting this blog.

I’ve wanted to create one for a long time, and the main thing that held me back was my English. I could have written articles in French, but I wanted my writing to reach a wider audience. Some people might say that my English is already good enough — and honestly, it’s decent — but English is still not my native language.

So what changed?

AI arrived, and now I can use it to review and polish my writing. To be clear: my blog posts will not be written by AI. I only use it to improve readability and correct my English.

Why do I want to write a blog? Because I think I have a few interesting things to say. I’m 40 now, and I finally feel confident enough in my opinions to share them publicly. I also have enough hindsight now to look back on the things I’ve experienced and talk about them with perspective.

Maybe there’s a little narcissism involved too. I’m willing to embrace that.

Anyway, I already have a few posts in preparation. Let’s see where this new adventure takes me.