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Hello World

Hello, you. And welcome to my new "handmade" personal site / blog / portfolio!

I say "handmade" meaning I wanted to create the project structure and style

myself, only using a foundational framework, in this case SvelteKit.

Back in my days…

I'm really not a "front dude". I entered the wonderful world of programming at

12 years old by learning C and C++.

Why program at this age? Because I wanted to make video games, that's why. And

I still want it, I'm doing it when I have the time!

After C and C++, I learned HTML4, CSS2, and not much JavaScript. Years passed

and I was learning more and more.

When I was 17, I started my Computer Science studies, and so during 5 years I

was learning programming at school and at home. I fondly remember the OpenGL

classes — mindblowing, doing 3D stuff only with code!

During that time I also did front stuff, at first with the venerable jQuery,

then Angular JS. Five years later, I started working as a web developer, then

learned React and discovered next-generation JavaScript thanks to Babel.

I'm still using React at work with TypeScript, and a little on my personal

projects.

But I wanted something else, something as capable but less complex. I tried

Vue, and it didn't really click for me.

So I read about Svelte. I read all of the official documentation, and played

with it a little. Then, it clicked. It was amazing! The ease of use, the speed,

it just worked.

I quickly did my first released application with it: the GitHub Notifier.

And boy it was refreshing! The final code is simpler and easier to manage.

So that's what I did, and what you're seeing right now.

Well, I hope to write more blog posts, on other topics.

I'm more of a backend/game dude and what I like the most nowadays is mostly

Rust, my spiritual successor to C++. I'm also using Godot Engine and GDScript

to write games, and I would like to write about that too.

So we will see what will happen next.