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 like to 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:

• 🐘 PHP
  • That's my main skill, been doing PHP since 2008, and tried tons of frameworks.
  • I have two Symfony certifications, and been doing almost only Symfony-based projects since 2013
  • I made some Open Source projects:
    • 🍎 Compotes, a small app to visualize analytics about bank accounts operations.
    • 🪄 ImageMagickPHP, an ImageMagick command-line wrapper for PHP.
    • 📄 CmsBundle, a very lightweight Page/Category implementation setup for Symfony applications.
    • 🎲 CharacterManagerBundle, a workflow-like system to create character generators for custom table-top role-playing games.
    • 🌳 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.
• 🦀 Rust
  • I started coding with Rust in 2020, mostly for the purpose of learning, and also for fun
  • Here are some of my projects using it:
    • Rymfony, Open Source alternative to the closed-source Symfony CLI binary
    • 🍎 Compotes v2, a complete rewrite of the first PHP/Symfony version, using Tauri (a Rust tool to create desktop applications) and the frontend framework Svelte (using Typescript)
• 🟨 Javascript and 🟦 Typescript
  • Even though I'm mostly a backend developer, I also know a bit of frontend, at least enough for having been coding on browsers since 2012.
  • 🍦 I really like vanilla JS, because it's light, but 🔵 Typescript is definitely the best option nowadays because it's stricter and has more capabilities.
  • I know and love Svelte and a little Vue too.
  • Some of my projects are using it:
    • 🍎 Compotes v2, because even though the backend is using Rust, the frontend is built using Svelte and Typescript.
    • 🎵 Handpan Composer a fun experiment to create music for the Handpan, a musical instrument classified in the steelpans, with a very zen and lovely sound 🎶.
• 🦕 Deno
  • Experienced it, tested it to create bundled versions of Typescript projects, but can also be used to compile executables!
  • Soon, most of my Svelte-based projects will be based on Deno rather than Node.js, because I think it's a much better runtime.