The last time I was this enthusiastic was in 2012, when I discovered Symfony... 🚀 I had planned for the first software to be released before talking about it publicly. But I can't help it, I'm having way too much fun, I'm way too absorbed by the marvel that is Ruby on Rails... 💎 EVERY SINGLE TIME I discover how to do something, like 10...

Imagine: Your brand new MacBook Pro M3 Pro struggling on a simple migration of 12 tables. 😱 That's EXACTLY what happened to me last week. And the worst part? It wasn't the first time MySQL 8.0+ disappointed me. 🔍 The story begins this summer... On my LFGitignore project (a little Django side project), the performance was so catastrophi...

Hey there 😁, Today on the blog, Joss wrote about his summer experiment using AI to completely redesign his SaaS platform, Plus Tard. Spoiler: it's not as simple as asking ChatGPT to "make it pretty." The Challenge With paying customers arriving and feedback rolling in, Plus Tard needed both a landing page refresh and an internal app re...

Since going freelance, I created an email address: "contact@developpeur-freelance.io", looks professional, on a custom domain and all that... 💼 But young Ludo from 2020, there were a few things he didn't know back then. In 1-to-1 discussions, on WhatsApp for example, people would sometimes ask me "what's your email so I can forward thi...

Hey there 🙂, I hope you're doing well and that your back-to-school/work season is going well 😁. On my end, for the first article of the year, we're going back a bit into the hotwired ecosystem (Symfony-UX). And yes, I wrote an article about Turbo and Turnstile (Cloudflare's anti-bot solution). (there's also a French version) I hope the...

Hey there 😁, Like many of you, AI is a part of my life now. I use it a lot to help me do things... Right now I'm working on a new landing page for ViteUneTable. It's Bootstrap 5, nothing crazy... To speed things up, I'm working with Claude 🙂. With Tailwind, I'm able to get quite good results, but with Bootstrap, it's a complete disaste...

Hey there 😁, In December 2024, I wrote three free SaaS apps for tiny companies. I wrote them, but I didn't think anyone would use them. 6 months later, there are around 100 users on each app who use them frequently. So I decided to translate them into English. Here are the apps: • LFNY: Create custom short links • LFQR: Create QR codes...

I love 37signals, I’ve been talking about them for years! To me, they’re a model company… In 2021, with just 34 employees, they generated $35 million in revenue (I don’t have reliable data on net profit). Also: 37signals uses a super lightweight structure, favoring two-person teams (one programmer and one designer) for each project cyc...

Hey there 🙂, First things first: if you want to understand a part of my world, here’s where it started — the first book I ever read: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. So now… why this post? Because I’m really frustrated. This week has been terrible. I just wanted to keep working on my hairdresser booking syste...

Hi there, First of all: from now on, the emails you receive from me will be written in English. Why? Because we live in an AI (and LLM) world, and these systems understand English much better than French. So I need to practice — and maybe you should too? For the past six months, I used a system that sent emails only when I published a ...

Hey there 😁, Thanks for stopping by! This is my first post on Hey World, so it won’t be very long. I already run an English-speaking developer blog, but I wanted to try posting on another platform too 😁. You might wonder how I discovered 37Signals — it was through Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus), which I found really interesting from a de...