2023 in review

Picture of a Dark-Eyed Junco, a bird from British Columnia with a black head and the rest of the body being brown and white. It's standing on the grass, which patches of ice and snow behind it.

2023 was a bit of a shit year for me. I’ve tried to keep most of my personal life out of this blog, so I won’t go into details. That being said, if I’m going to review this past year, it should be mentioned that a bunch of events took a huge toll on my mental health. With that out of the way, let’s review some parts of 2023, in no particular order.

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New Landing Page

A personal webpage section with a photo of a man named Romain, who is a Software Engineer in Vancouver, leaning on a seaside pier railing, alongside a brief professional summary that emphasizes his expertise in distributed applications and microservices, his hobbies, and social media links with a prompt to download his resume.

I’ve put together a landing page on romain-pouclet.com with all my links. Many thanks to Camille for the picture.

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Notes #2

  • I have a bunch of side projects and experiment and I finally took the time to extract some of the common logic I use everywhere. Right now, that includes helpers for Vapor apps, a set of components for Bootstrap based on Plot (which allows me to create web pages pretty quickly), a module to manage authentication on top of cookie and JWTs, etc.. It took me foverer to finally decide to do that, maybe turning 36 last month is the reason why I decided to get my shit together?

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Notes #1

I wanted to write tonight as I’m fighting jet-lag, hoping to go to bed no sooner than 8:30pm. I’ve been following Chris’ weekly notes for a little while now and I’ve been enjoying the format. Without any hopes of making this a weekly things, I’ve decided to experiment with notes of my own. So let’s do this.

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Keeping my dependencies up to date

A man wearing a blue shirt, a speech buddle says updated Vapor to 4.57.0, it ain't much but it's honnest work

I’ve been working on this side project codenamed Caretaker for a while now and since it wasn’t my main activity, I would sometime not do any work for weeks or months, depending on how my life was going (it’s going well, thank you for asking). Every time I wanted to go back to the project, I would start with the same thing: making sure my dependencies were up to date. A couple of months ago, I made a tool for it.

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