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Hello 🌘

I'm a freelance developer, coach and trainer from France

You can see my freelance website there: https://alex-rock.tech/en/, on which there's a specific section to the few talks I gave.

I sometimes write blog posts too: https://www.orbitale.io/, sometimes technical, sometimes not purely technical, but I try to often talk about the strange world of tech we work in.

I love free Open Source software, and I believe that Open Source could help the entire world by bringing community effort into solving peoples problems, could it be by allowing them to create a website for a project in seconds, or create free and Open Source plans for artificial respirators.

In any way, when I have a project, I will always try to make it Open Source first, create documentation, even if it's just for me, because I hope it will help Open Source newcomers to participate too, and give a good example of how things can be done.

I do have several activities! Check them out:

• Skills:

  • 🐘 PHP
    • That's my main skill, been doing PHP since 2008, and tried tons of frameworks in the past.
    • I have two Symfony certifications, and been doing a lot Symfony-based projects since 2013
  • 🦀 Rust
    • I started coding with Rust in 2020, mostly for the purpose of learning, and also for fun.
    • Rust is a low-level language, but I love using it with ♾ Tauri to create desktop applications.
  • 🟨 Javascript and 🟦 Typescript
    • Even though I'm mostly a backend developer, I also know frontend, at least enough for having been coding on browsers since 2011.
    • 🔵 Typescript is definitely the best option nowadays because it's stricter and has more capabilities.
    • I know and love ⭕ Svelte, and know ✌ Vue too. (I know React but I don't like it, just saying, because React seems to be kinda famous)
  • 🐳Docker
    • Been using it to bootstrap projects since 2016, it's a must-have now to make sure a project's development setup is the same for everyone working on it!
  • Other stuff:
    • I'm managing Debian/Ubuntu-based dedicated servers.
    • I know about OpenAPI, HTTP, REST, GraphQL, and a few things about the protocols that govern make web.
    • Experienced DDD, Clean Architecture, and read a lot about design patterns, programming practices, etc. Nobody can know everything, but I do my best to know as much as I can!

• Open Source projects:

  • 🪄 ImageMagickPHP, an ImageMagick command-line wrapper for PHP.
  • 🗜 ArrayFixture, a small package to simplify static fixtures creation with Doctrine ORM.
  • 🔥 SmokeTesting, a helper tool to ease the creation of Smoke and Functional tests with PHPUnit and Symfony.
  • 🎲 CharacterManagerBundle, a workflow-like system to create character generators for custom table-top role-playing games.
  • 🚀 PHP/JS JAMstack template, a web-application template based on PHP, Symfony, API Platform, OpenAPI, Svelte Kit and Tailwind, to bootstrap a JAMstack project quickly
  • 🌳 Corahn-Rin, once a monolithic project created in 2013, but extracted from the monolith as a smaller application in 2021. It is a character and campaign manager for the Shadows of Esteren table-top RPG.
  • 🗺 Esteren Maps, once a monolithic project created in 2013, but extracted from the monolith as a smaller application in 2021. It is a Google-map-like application for the Shadows of Esteren table-top RPG.
  • ⏲ processtime, a cross-platform version of the "time" shell function, but as a binary, which goal is to display execution time for a process.
  • 📊 Svelte vs React benchmarks, benchmarks of Svelte, SvelteKit, React and Next.js build times and sizes.
  • 📄 CmsBundle, a very lightweight Page/Category implementation setup for Symfony applications.

• Other side-projects:

  • 🦀 Rymfony, an open-source Rust-based alternative for the Symfony CLI using Caddy server.
  • 🍎 Compotes, a small desktop app to visualize bank account operations analytics, built with Rust, Tauri, Svelte and Typescript.

• Prototypes (for learning, fun, or anything else):

  • 🎵 Handpan Composer a fun prototype/experiment to create music for the Handpan, a musical instrument classified in the steelpans, with a very zen and lovely sound 🎶.
  • 🦀 Pagoo, a prototype/research on creating a daemon-like command executor listening to webhooks via an HTTP API.
  • ♟ Game dev study, a prototype of a Svelte+Typescript+Hexcomb boilerplate code for video games development in the browser.