I recently shipped a new feature on Comics Outmash called “polls”. Each month or so, the admin can open a new “poll period” where people can suggest a title they’d like to read next. Once there has been enough suggestions, the admin flips a switch and the users can vote on the titles they’re interested in reading. Unsurprinsingly, the title with the most votes wins. As part of this feature, I went through a tiny rabbit hole of at least 4 internet searches and discovered that it’s not possible to add an HTML form inside another. Or, is it?
Romain Pouclet
I’m looking for a job as a software engineer
A few months ago, I announced that I’d decided to leave my position as a software engineer at Apple. After 7 years working on various projects, like Xcode Cloud and that cool hang detection indicator for iOS 16, I felt it was time for me to move on, not without giving myself a few months to rest and hang out with visiting family first. Now, I’m ready to start working again, so I’ve started looking for a position as a senior/staff backend software engineer.
Using Kotlin to build Comics Outmash
In 2022, a colleague of mine asked if I’d be able to help write a Swift on server demo for a WWDC session. At the time, I remember answering to their Slack message with something like “if you cut me I will bleed Swift on server” which, at the time, was probably true. Knowing this, and if you know me at all, you might have been slightly surprised when I mentioned that I decided to use Kotlin for the Comics Outmash project.
Colorful updates
I have used the same theme for this blog for the past few years and it was due for a refresh. While I have gotten pretty good at fighting urges to move to a different platforms, I spent Saturday in cloudy Squamish adding a dash of colour here and there, as well as some new pages.
A breath of fresh air and a new side project
A few years ago, I joined the discord server of a french podcast network, which (among other shows) produces Comics Outcast, a show that I’d been listening to almost religiously. In this show, each host presents in turn the first 3 issues of a comic book series and discuss it with the others. It’s fun and mostly done in good faith (mostly, you know who you are). Over the episodes, I’ve learned a lot about editors, artists and series and I eneded up spending a buttload of money in comic books. Still, I started working on a website with them.