# Eventuallymaking

> I love building stuff and writing about it

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

## Posts

- [Migrating from Github to a European alternative](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/migrating-from-github-to-a-european-alternative): Among the important basic building blocks for building software that are monopolized by the US, I present to you: Github (Microsoft). (published 2026-09-09)
- [The Default Transparency Trap on Bluesky and the ATProto Protocol](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/the-default-transparency-trap-on-bluesky-and-the-atproto-protocol): Public PDS, visible likes, exposed metadata: on Bluesky, everything crosses. Beware, transparency has a price. (published 2026-08-31)
- [What if the AI bubble burst?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-if-the-ai-bubble-burst): What if the AI bubble burst? Is it already a bubble? How could it burst? What would the consequences be? (published 2026-08-28)
- [My software stack to build products](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/my-software-service-stack-to-build-products): My European software radar: the complete list of software (hosting, payment, monitoring) that I use or recommend to launch a product in Europe. (published 2026-08-25)
- [Social networks: what if we had the solution to escape US Big tech?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/social-networks-solution-escape-american-giants): What if the answer to Tech monopolies wasn't a new application, but a new way of designing the Web? (published 2026-08-19)
- [We must not pit ecology against sovereignty](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/we-must-not-pit-ecology-against-sovereignty): Is it consistent to oppose sovereignty and ecology or are we replaying the battle against nuclear energy from the 2000s? (published 2026-08-08)
- [The Price of Digital Sovereignty](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/the-price-of-digital-sovereignty): European digital sovereignty faces a reality: finding alternatives isn't enough, they must also remain economically competitive (published 2026-07-29)
- [My Software Factory in the Age of AI](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/my-software-factory-in-the-age-of-ai): How I oversee code written 100% by AI agents: context, skills, hooks, architecture tests and quality gates. The details of my software factory. (published 2026-07-29)
- [Why I'm Not Making Writizzy Open Source](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/why-i-am-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. (published 2026-07-28)
- [AI and Ecology, Fantasy or Convenient Scapegoat?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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. (published 2026-07-13)
- [How I Do Design as a Backend Developer](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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. (published 2026-06-24)
- [What I Learned Spending €100 on Online Ads](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-i-learned-spending-100-euros-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. (published 2026-06-19)
- [The Transactional Outbox Pattern with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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 (published 2026-06-15)
- [What is a Hacker Residency?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-is-a-hacker-residency): Between hackerspaces and artist residencies, discover the concept of "Hackers in residence". (published 2026-06-12)
- [Are We in the Era of Shitty Code?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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 ? (published 2026-06-10)
- [My AI stack for developing products without breaking the bank](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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. (published 2026-06-08)
- [Day 181: What I learned with a Claude SEO Skill](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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 (published 2026-05-04)
- [Why Open Source Won’t Be Enough to Free Us from Big Tech](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/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. (published 2026-04-27)
- [AI & Layoffs: What if Artificial Intelligence Is Just an Excuse?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/ai-layoffs-what-if-artificial-intelligence-is-just-an-excuse): 273,000 job losses expected in the tech sector: Is AI already replacing us, or is it being used as a cover for opportunistic layoff plans? An analysis of a market shift where productivity isn’t always where you’d expect it to be. (published 2026-04-04)
- [Coding 10x faster: what's the real benefit?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/coding-10x-faster-what-s-the-real-benefit): Developers who save a ton of time thanks to AI: what do you do with it? Let's explore that. (published 2026-03-09)
- [Dogfooding: Why I Migrated My Own Blog to Writizzy](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/dogfooding-why-i-migrated-my-own-blog-to-writizzy): Dogfooding: Why I migrated EventuallyCoding to Writizzy. Between the difficulty of open source and the agility of SaaS, here are some insights from my experience. (published 2026-03-01)
- [The B2BigB Syndrome: How Large Corporations Quietly Kill Startups](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/the-b2bigb-syndrome-how-large-corporations-quietly-kill-startups): Selling to a large corporation seems like the ultimate validation for a startup. It's often the beginning of the end. Endless sales cycles, cash flow problems, product derailed from its roadmap: here's why B2BigB is a trap, and how to try to avoid it (published 2026-02-25)
- [I Tried to Ditch Windows for Linux... Spoiler: It Didn't Go Well](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/i-tried-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-spoiler-it-didn-t-go-well): Security, geopolitics, planned obsolescence: the reasons to leave Windows have never been stronger. Here's my attempted migration to Linux (published 2026-02-09)
- [AI's Impact on the State of the Art in Software Engineering in 2026](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/ai-s-impact-on-the-state-of-the-art-in-software-engineering-in-2026): How has AI transformed software engineering? From the end of ego-coding to 'Context Driven Engineering', discover feedback from Doctolib, Malt, Alan and Google on the industrialization of AI agents in 2026 (published 2026-02-06)
- [When Code Becomes a Commodity: The Rise of AI Native Companies](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/when-code-becomes-a-commodity-the-rise-of-ai-native-companies): From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: How AI is turning code into a commodity. Discover the new BBRV (Build, Buy, Run, or Vibe) framework and why the 'Product Engineer' is the only moat that matters in the era of liquid software (published 2026-01-28)
- [Cloudflare vs Italy: A Wake-Up Call for Europe's Tech Dependency](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/cloudflare-vs-italy-a-wake-up-call-for-europe-s-tech-dependency): Italy demands Cloudflare block pirate sites. Cloudflare refuses, invoking free speech. But behind this standoff lies a deeper issue: Europe's dependence on US tech infrastructure (published 2026-01-23)
- [Using custom components with Nuxt-mdc to build a theming system](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/using-custom-components-with-nuxt-mdc-to-build-a-theming-system): How to customize MDC components per theme in Nuxt with MDCRenderer (published 2026-01-20)
- [Developers in the Age of AI Agents: Transformation, Industrialization, and the Future of the Profession](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/developers-in-the-age-of-ai-agents-transformation-industrialization-and-the-future-of-the-profession): 2025 was a turning point for many developers in their relationship with AI, with the emergence of agents — and that's probably what we'll remember most. (published 2026-01-13)
- [Tailwind and open source in the LLM era: when documentation no longer monetizes](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/tailwind-and-open-source-in-the-llm-era-when-documentation-no-longer-monetizes): Tailwind’s refusal to add llms.txt highlights a deeper issue: how open source projects can survive in an era where LLMs replace documentation traffic and traditional monetization breaks down. (published 2026-01-04)
- [Europe's Tech Independence Movement Is No Longer Theoretical](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/europe-s-tech-independence-movement-is-no-longer-theoretical): A former EU Commissioner banned from the US. Threats against European judges. In 2026, Europe's tech dependency is no longer a theoretical risk. (published 2026-01-02)
- [Hosting a Nuxt static site on Bunny.net](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/hosting-a-nuxt-static-site-on-bunny-net): Step-by-step guide to migrate from Netlify to Bunny.net for static Nuxt sites. Storage zone setup, automated deployment, and DDoS protection. (published 2025-12-28)
- [Is Platform Moderation Doomed to Fail?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/is-platform-moderation-doomed-to-fail): Blogs, algorithms, moderation: how do we balance discoverability with user control? (published 2025-12-22)
- [Variable pay for tech roles: good idea or bad idea?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/variable-pay-for-tech-roles-good-idea-or-bad-idea): Variable pay for software engineers sounds motivating on paper. In practice, it's a recruiting obstacle, a source of tension, and often counterproductive. Here's why equity works better. (published 2025-12-18)
- [What if your favorite platform died? How I'm trying to build software that lasts](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-if-your-favorite-platform-died-how-i-m-trying-to-build-software-that-lasts): How do you build a platform users can rely on for years? Reversibility, avoid enshittification, viability, etc.. (published 2025-12-18)
- [Managing Custom Domains and Dynamic SSL with Coolify and Traefik](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/managing-custom-domains-and-dynamic-ssl-with-coolify-and-traefik): Handle your customers' custom domains on Coolify. A guide to automating dynamic SSL certificates with Traefik's File Provider. (published 2025-12-16)
- [What's the Real Impact of AI on Tech Companies in 2025?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-s-the-real-impact-of-ai-on-tech-companies-in-2025): What's AI actually changing for dev agencies and SMBs in 2025? Insights from CTOs on adoption, the bubble question, and why everyone's both using it and sick of it. (published 2025-12-12)
- [Building an app independent from US tech in 2025](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/building-an-app-independent-from-us-tech-in-2025): As a European, can you be 100% independent from US tech? (published 2025-12-06)
- [Implementing a tracking-free captcha with Altcha and Nuxt](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/implementing-a-tracking-free-captcha-with-altcha-and-nuxt): Setting up Altcha captcha with Nuxt. Open-source, no tracking, includes code... and why it didn't solve my spam problem. (published 2025-12-02)
- [Tim Ferriss Promised Freedom. Indie Hackers Are Selling Shovels](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/tim-ferriss-promised-freedom-indie-hackers-are-selling-shovels): Tim Ferriss promised freedom through automation. Today's indie hackers are trapped selling courses about selling courses. Here's how a movement lost its soul (published 2025-11-30)
- [Securing File Imports: Fixing SSRF and XXE Vulnerabilities](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/securing-file-imports-fixing-ssrf-and-xxe-vulnerabilities): How to fix SSRF and XXE vulnerabilities in file imports? Real-world case with exploitation, code examples, and security solutions in Kotlin. (published 2025-11-28)
- [What is Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) ?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/purchasing-power-parity-ppp): Thinking about Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for SaaS: should prices be adjusted according to country? Analysis of marginal costs and VPN risk (published 2025-11-12)
- [Someone tried to hack me](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/someone-tried-to-hack-me): Lessons learned after a malicious data deletion attempt on my new SaaS. We explore the 'Pain in the Ass Driven Development' philosophy for balancing security risks and costs in early-stage products. (published 2025-11-10)
- [How to Build with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI and Deploy to Coolify](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/how-to-build-with-github-actions-or-gitlab-ci-and-deploy-to-coolify): How to offload a resource-intensive build process using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI and deploy the resulting Docker image to Coolify. (published 2025-11-06)
- [Being Opinionated](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/being-opinionated): Building a product is making choices. The same applies to how you talk about it. (published 2025-11-05)
- [Can You Still Learn to Draw in the Age of AI?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/can-you-still-learn-to-draw-in-the-age-of-ai): After years of learning to draw, I stopped when AI arrived. As a developer, I see the same wall facing junior devs today. Did we get the future backwards? (published 2025-11-03)
- [Having a good customer support isn't optional](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/having-a-good-customer-support-isn-t-optional): I'm one of those people who consider support service crucial. (published 2025-10-31)
- [First impressions after migrating to Nuxt 4](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-11-nuxt4-migration): Migrating to Nuxt 4 and Nuxt UI: feedback after migrating Hakanai. (published 2025-10-31)
- [When a Kotlin Sealed Class Explodes Your Spring Boot Startup Time (from 6s to 3 minutes)](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-10-kotlin-postgresql-jsonb): 3 minutes to start Spring Boot locally: debugging a performance issue caused by a Kotlin sealed class and Jackson. (published 2025-10-27)
- [What I Missed Working Solo](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-i-missed-working-solo): Building a product alone is hard. (published 2025-10-26)
- [SEO failure](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/seo-failure): Well, this is embarrassing. I just realized the SEO for hakanai.io has been completely broken for months. (published 2025-10-25)
- [Using Coolify to deploy applications with wildcard SSL on dynamic subdomains](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-10-coolify-wildcard-ssl): Configure wildcard SSL certificates with Coolify and Traefik using DNS challenge. Complete guide for managing dynamic subdomains and custom domains over HTTPS. (published 2025-10-19)
- [Hello World, again](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/hello-world): Hello World (published 2025-10-15)
- [Using Coolify and Nuxt for multi-tenant with dynamic subdomains](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-10-coolify-subdomain): Set up custom subdomains for your clients with Coolify and Nuxt. Simple configuration with Traefik and regular expressions. (published 2025-10-14)
- [Coming Back After a Year of Expatriation](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-08-back-to-business): A year abroad, an empty calendar, and one question: what's next? After a year in Japan, how do you restart? (published 2025-08-06)
- [Domain Name Change: A Retrospective](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-04-brand-migration): Insights from changing a brand name: SEO impact, domain management, email considerations and more... (published 2025-04-28)
- [Mini-game: Reducing my dependence on American tech giants via the Tech Dependency Index](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-04-score-tech-dependency): How to measure your dependence on US tech and how to reduce it? (published 2025-04-02)
- [2025, Europe Vs USA: Tech at the Crossroads](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-03-europe-vs-usa-tech-choices): What if tomorrow, Americans cut off our access to digital services, or increased prices tenfold? Or worse, what if these services became weapons against us? (published 2025-03-23)
- [The Myth of Neutrality: Why Tech is Political](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-03-tech-neutrality): Some argue that tech is neutral. But tech is about making choices, and these choices shape society. (published 2025-03-13)
- [SEO for a SAAS When You're Solo (and Broke)](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-03-seo-saas): Want to know the most frustrating thing about launching a SAAS? (published 2025-03-09)
- [Creating a Technical Vision](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-02-tech-vision): From Daily Chaos to Clear Direction: How Written Communication Drives Technical Leadership (published 2025-02-23)
- [My 2025 stack for building a SAAS application](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-02-stack-saas-2025): Here are the technologies I use to build SAAS applications efficiently. (published 2025-02-10)
- [Bye Twitter, or X, whatever](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-01-bye-twitter): Why I decided to quit Twitter and why you should too. (published 2025-01-26)
- [I was forced to ABANDON my product 😱](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-01-product-pivot): Discover the story of the product that never saw the light of day... Or not. (published 2025-01-20)
- [Review 2024, the future of this blog](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2025-01-2024-review): Review 2024, what worked, what didn't? What is the future of the blog or Youtube channels? (published 2025-01-04)
- [How to install Metabase on Coolify and make your first dashboards](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-12-coolify-metabase): Install Metabase on Coolify, an open source PAAS that installs wherever you want, and make your first dashboards. (published 2024-12-19)
- [Setting up Postgresql, and backups on S3 with Coolify](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-11-coolify-pgsql-s3): How to add a Postgresql database on Coolify, and how to set up backups on S3. (published 2024-11-27)
- [How to deploy a Kotlin application on Coolify](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-11-coolify-kotlin): Deploy a Kotlin application on Coolify, an open source PAAS that installs wherever you want. (published 2024-11-10)
- [Migrating to Coolify: an open source PAAS that installs wherever you want](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-10-coolify-feedback): Should you consider migrating to Coolify? What are the advantages and disadvantages? (published 2024-10-30)
- [How I automated the download of Youtube videos with a Python script and AI](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-10-python-youtube-chatgpt): With AI, how I solved in 20 minutes what had been bugging me for months (published 2024-10-28)
- [Huge security breach on Hakanai](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-09-security-breach): Let's talk about security breach, white hat and build in public (published 2024-09-30)
- [Nuxt and Monaco to edit MJML emails](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-09-nuxt-monaco-mjml): How I almost changed my hosting provider because of Monaco Editor and MJML. (published 2024-09-19)
- [A catastrophic July 2024?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-08-august-2024): Let's make a review of this month of July 2024. (published 2024-08-05)
- [Less is more: I had a lot of memory crashes on my application](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-07-memory-crash): Everything was going fine and then, all of a sudden, 2 weeks ago I started having problems with the app crashing... (published 2024-07-15)
- [Using OpenAPI in a Nuxt application](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-07-nuxt-openapi): Using openApi in a Nuxt application to simplify API calls (published 2024-07-04)
- [June 2024 review](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-07-summary-june-2024): Let's sum up the month of June 2024. (published 2024-07-02)
- [Deploying a drinking game on the Edge with NuxtHub](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-06-drinking-game-nuxt-hub): How to use Cloudflare D1 and Cloudflare KV with NuxtHub to deploy a drinking game on Cloudflare worker? (published 2024-06-12)
- [What are Product Hunt, Hacker News and Reddit worth to an Indie Hacker?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-06-launching-product-hunt): Are Product Hunt, Hacker News and Reddit really traffic sources for an Indie Hacker? I tested for Hakanai. (published 2024-06-02)
- [How to set up a subscription payment system for a SAAS with Stripe](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-05-stripe-payment-saas): How to set up a subscription payment system for a SAAS with Stripe (published 2024-05-26)
- [Using Nuxt-auth-utils to implement a magic link login](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-05-nuxt-auth-magic-link): How to implement a magic link login with Nuxt-auth-utils (published 2024-05-17)
- [The technical stack to build a SAAS in 1 week](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-05-my-perfect-stack): Which stack to build a SAAS in 1 week? (published 2024-05-13)
- [Youtube: challenge met?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-05-challenge-met): 4 months after the launch of the Youtube channel, has the gamble paid off? (published 2024-05-02)
- [How to make a Nuxt module protected by a licensing system delivered by Lemonsqueezy?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-04-license-lemonsqueezy): Discover how to protect a Nuxt module with a licensing system and driven by the Lemonsqueezy API (published 2024-04-03)
- [Using nuxt-auth-utils to manage API tokens](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-03-oauth-nuxt): How to set up google authent and access token management with nuxt (published 2024-03-16)
- [Using Nuxt Layers to create a theme system - Build in Public #3](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-03-theming-system-build-in-public-3): How to use Nuxt Layers to create a theme system in Bloggr (published 2024-03-11)
- [My favorite technologies for coding fast - Build in Public #2](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-03-favourite-stack-build-in-public-2): Discover the technologies that allowed me to release 4 websites in 2 weeks (published 2024-03-06)
- [Launching Bloggrify](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-02-launch-bloggr): A personal blog template to get started quickly (published 2024-02-19)
- [Tech Lead Vs or with Engineering Manager](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2024-01-tech-lead-engineering-manager): How to create a Tech Lead/Engineering Manager duo that acts as a catalyst for change (published 2024-01-24)
- [There is no compromise](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/there-is-no-compromise): There is no room for compromise and vanilla culture in companies (published 2024-01-18)
- [2023 review](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-12-2023-review): Let's look at some figures together on what happened on eventuallycoding in 2023 (published 2023-12-21)
- [ChatGPT to the rescue](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-11-chatgpt-to-the-rescue): Not yet using copilot or chatGPT as a developer? Well, let me show you an example of why you should. (published 2023-11-21)
- [Why use an Internal Developer Portal?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-11-idp): An Internal Developer Portal is a tool that centralizes all the information a development team needs to build, test and deploy an application. (published 2023-11-18)
- [Discovering the Opportunity Solution Tree](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-11-opportunity-solution-tree): Feedback on using the Opportunity Solution Tree to structure personal discovery (published 2023-11-13)
- [From CTO to Fellow Engineer in Scale Up](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/from-cto-to-fellow-engineer-in-scale-up): From CTO to fellow engineer. The difficult choice for a founding CTO (published 2023-10-24)
- [Planning within impactful teams](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/planning-within-impactful-teams): Why I don't use traditional roadmap with date and gantt charts (published 2023-10-22)
- [Fighting complexity](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-07-fighting-complexity): If there's one factor that strongly and negatively influences impact at scale, it's complexity, and as product leaders, we have a responsibility for this complexity, whether it's the product we build or the organization in place. (published 2023-07-24)
- [Alignment, Autonomy and context](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/alignment-autonomy-and-context): What is the role of tech leaders in ensuring autonomy and alignment and creating impact? (published 2023-05-31)
- [Tech Marketing](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-05-tech-marketing): Let's discover how tech marketing can be a strong lever to create impact in an organization (published 2023-05-10)
- [Engineering Leadership](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/2023-05-engineering-leadership): IT development is one of the most collaborative activities. Developing its communication is crucial, especially to meet a major challenge: how to multiply its impact (published 2023-05-01)
- [Accepting boredom](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/accepting-boredom): I have learned over the years to appreciate this forced time off, and to develop the belief that it is even necessary to continue to make an impact. (published 2023-03-21)
- [Individual impact in an engineering team](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/individual-impact-in-an-engineering-team): Let's define together this notion of individual impact in an engineering team. (published 2023-03-13)
- [Pick your battles](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/choose-your-battles): Everyone theoretically knows the importance of prioritizing, yet many of us fail to make choices. (published 2023-03-11)
- [Being in the room](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/being-in-the-room): How to be in the room as a technical leader ? (published 2023-03-01)
- [Engineering as a Science: Stop Guessing, Start Measuring Your Keystroke Capital](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/measuring-everything): Don't just refactor because it "feels right." Engineering is a science. Learn why measuring your Keystroke Capital and adopting a scientific approach is critical for scaling teams. (published 2023-02-19)
- [It’s not just a matter of technique](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/it-s-not-just-a-matter-of-technique): Technology is not only about technique. Let me show you why (published 2023-02-03)
- [Questions to ask before joining a startup](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/questions-to-ask-before-joining-a-startup): between the myth of the toxic startups run by big megalomaniac and the fantastic adventures of unicorns that impact millions of people there is a gap and you don't want to fall on the wrong side. (published 2023-01-19)
- [The Singapore Project: Migration to Nuxt](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/the-singapore-project-migration-to-nuxt): How did we migrate from 7 technologies on the frontend to Nuxt (published 2023-01-09)
- [What if we rewrite everything ?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-if-we-rewrite-everything): A rewrite is often the culmination of a technical debt that is too heavy to repay, an acceptation that we can no longer manage to develop, the cost and the risks being too high. But if this situation is already a problem, the rewriting itself is a trap that can kill a product. (published 2023-01-02)
- [Why constraints matter](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/why-constraints-matter): The importance of constraints, or how to stimulate creativity and innovation by setting limits (published 2022-09-03)
- [Frontend development for a side project: choosing the right stack](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/frontend-development-for-a-side-project-choosing-the-right-stack): A backend developer's journey through frontend development. From TailwindCSS struggles to finding the right stack with Bulma and Vue.js. Real challenges, tooling pain points, and lessons learned. (published 2022-04-14)
- [How a developer tackles the design phase: my workflow with Figma and Procreate](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/how-a-developer-tackles-the-design-phase-my-workflow-with-figma-and-procreate): A developer's approach to designing a side project UI. From wireframes to Figma customization and Procreate illustrations. Real workflow, tools, time spent (1 week), and lessons learned (published 2022-04-08)
- [How to build a side project, step 1: the idea](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/how-to-build-a-side-project-step-1-the-idea): How I built Coderwatch: a practical guide from idea to launch. Includes MVP definition, real hosting costs (€20/month), Cold Start solutions, and monetization options for side projects. (published 2022-04-04)
- [What does an Engineering Manager do?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/what-does-an-engineering-manager-do): In this post I would like to talk about the role of Engineering Manager, the person responsible for the efficiency of delivery, the people and their development in the company. Having discussed it with several people, this role can be quite different depending on the company. So I wanted to share our experience at Malt of this role. (published 2022-01-31)
- [Stay up to date in a product team](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/stay-up-to-date-in-a-product-team): Today I'd like to talk about knowledge management in a product team because for me that is one of the very important subjects on which we must invest (published 2021-10-20)
- [Should we measure the performance of an engineering team?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/should-we-measure-the-performance-of-an-engineering-team): The subject may seem tricky as it draws two major topics, measuring instruments, what to measure, how and why? And the management method (published 2021-10-07)
- [Differences between VP Engineering and CTO](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/differences-between-vp-engineering-and-cto): How we setup the VP engineering role at Malt and how it works with a founding CTO (published 2021-08-31)
- [How Engineers Drive Impact: Discovery vs Delivery](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/how-engineers-drive-impact-discovery-vs-delivery): Discovery vs Delivery: how engineers create impact beyond coding. Why excluding devs from Discovery is a mistake, and how AI changed the game in 2025. (published 2021-06-25)
- [You're Senior After 6 Years. Now What?](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/senior-with-6-years-of-experience-what-s-next): Staff, Principal, Fellow: what's the career path after Senior? Dual ladder, impact levels, and how developers drive real value through Discovery and Delivery at Malt. (published 2021-06-24)
- [Why the subject is no longer to adopt agility but to change product culture](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/why-the-subject-is-no-longer-to-adopt-agility-but-to-change-product-culture): Why the subject is no longer to adopt agility but to change product culture (published 2021-06-14)
- [CTO from startup to scaleup](https://eventuallymaking.io/p/cto-from-startup-to-scaleup): What if I told you about the journey as a CTO, in a company from 0 to 200 people, from startup to scale-up? (published 2021-05-02)

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