My name is Alexandre aka Alex, I’m a 41 years old (and counting) Tech Lead, Software Craftsman, Jack of all trades Developer working in Luxembourg, and living in Metz, France.
Interests
I like some sports like badminton, squash and walking. I do love photography you can take a look at some shots on my photostream.
I’m into programming, a lot and I’ve made it my job. I am mainly paid to write Java, Kotlin, REST APIs and such stuff, but on the side I like other stacks like Clojure, Kotlin, Go, Python, OCaml, iOS stuff, trying to keep-up with AI also.
This site
I‘ve crafted a lot of sites already, using custom solutions with PHP (ah early 2000), Django, Play! Framework, and popular systems like dotclear, Spip, WordPress and static site generators like Jekyll.
The previous++ version of this site was using Jekyll and while updating it I took a look at alternatives like nanoc, but I finally wrote my own just because I can and because there was no static site generator written in Java that I could find.
I named this generator Jssg, it’s written in Java, but is now abandonware. And.. IT being chaos at the end of the day, I finally decided to use WordPress.
Then to move to Hugo, which is the current version of this website. It takes < 300ms to render my site, so it’s super fine.
But, this is endless, I may have one day a frontier model write another one for me, maybe 😅