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Eventuallymaking

Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience. I love to share about technologies and startups

Latest Articles

Why I'm Not Making Writizzy Open Source

Making your product open source: an obvious path to sustainability or an economic and mental trap? Experience and dilemmas through the Writizzy case.

·10 min read

AI and Ecology, Fantasy or Convenient Scapegoat?

It's hard to talk about AI these days. I've rarely, if ever, seen a subject so polarized in tech.

·15 min read

How I Do Design as a Backend Developer

From Bootstrap in 2011 to Claude Design in 2026, a look back at 15 years of web design evolution and design systems, seen through the eyes of a backend developer.

·10 min read

What I Learned Spending €100 on Online Ads

How I spent my first 100 euros on Reddit Ads for my SaaS Writizzy. My mistakes, the impact on traffic, my metrics and the results.

·11 min read

The Transactional Outbox Pattern with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ

How do you secure your writes between PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ without penalizing your performance? Discover the Transactional Outbox pattern

·7 min read

What is a Hacker Residency?

Between hackerspaces and artist residencies, discover the concept of "Hackers in residence".

·2 min read

Are We in the Era of Shitty Code?

There isn't a day that goes by without discovering a major security flaw or data breach somewhere. Is this the beginning of a shitty code era ?

·10 min read
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My AI stack for developing products without breaking the bank

Can you build an app with AI for 20€/month? Here's a field report to optimize these uses: token optimization, specs and agentic workflow.

·8 min read
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Day 181: What I learned with a Claude SEO Skill

I tested Claude-SEO (MCP) to audit Writizzy after days of declining traffic. My deep dive into technical optimizations (JSON-LD, E-E-A-T, Nuxt) and the mystery of Google's 'Discovered - Currently Not Indexed' status

·7 min read

Why Open Source Won’t Be Enough to Free Us from Big Tech

264 billion euros flow out of Europe every year. Why open source, without a genuine digital commons strategy, won’t save us.

·7 min read

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