Location: Paris, France

Remote: Remote first, but I enjoy spending time with my collaborators (especially at the beginning of a mission) and traveling for work from time to time.

Willing to relocate: Temporarily, depending on the job but not for more than 6 months.

Technologies: Can learn anything web related very quickly but I'm especially proficient as a full stack working with a boring Python/Django/PostgreSQL stack. I enjoy working with Vue.js or Svelte but I will keep using HTMX or Alpine.js whenever I can out of simplicity. Happy to use low-code tools and vibe code stuff when it makes sense. I can also use Cloud solutions (GCP, Render, Heroku, AWS) or administrate a Linux server.

Résumé/CV: https://louis.ga/cv/en/#exp

Email: hn [AT] louis [DOT] ga

Python/Django specialist looking for projects bridging tech and visual arts. Currently available for freelance work. I bring 5+ years building production software—from co-founding a legal tech startup where I wore every hat from Linux sysadmin to team lead, to a recent stint at Louis Vuitton on JS/TypeScript. Comfortable across the stack, with particular depth in data pipelines, ML/computer vision, and making things work reliably at scale. M.S. in Computer Science (computer vision) from Sorbonne, dual B.S. in Math & CS, plus a foundation year in applied arts. This mix shows up in my work—I care about both what's under the hood and what users actually see.

I'm quite good with people and enjoy being part of a team. Looking for interesting projects at the intersection of software and visual/creative domains, or anything hardware / real world related -- but honestly, I enjoy hard problems wherever they live.

Open to contracts, part-time collaborations, or interesting project-based work. Based in Paris, remote-friendly.

Don't hesitate to get in touch. ;-)

Regards.

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Yes such a fantastic book. I thought about it recently while reading this article about the three teenagers who created the Mirai botnet, same vibes, you would probably like it: https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-h...

He said fun, not easy. Sometimes it's precisely doing brainless stuff over and over again that becomes hard, like writing a template displaying a table of your results or implementing filter and pagination on a web app. I don't feel like I'm growing anymore when doing those things. Or even for some tests. Or when you need a Bash script automating menial stuff. (Still you could find new perspective on things.)

> Sometimes it's precisely doing brainless stuff over and over again that becomes hard, like writing a template displaying a table of your results or implementing filter and pagination on a web app.

I always have a hard time taking this complaint seriously, because the solution is absolutely trivial. Write a snippet. Have you really been out there, year after year, rewriting the same shit from scratch over and over? Just make a snippet. Make it good and generic and save it. Whenever you need to do something repeated on a new project, copy it (or auto-expand if you use it that often) and adapt. Snippet managers are a thing.

Or better yet, refactor your app so it doesn't require so much boilerplate - surely if you're doing the same thing over and over again you can just extract it into it's own function / method and abstract over it.

We do need this. HN is quite US-centered and sometimes I'm tired of it. So good luck. I'll be part of it.

EDIT: There is indeed a bug: clicking on a title which is an internal link sends you to the wrong page -- you have to click on the comments count.

Funny stuff, that's cool.

Very probably.

I am also curious to know wether a domain name still confers a solid advantage. Now that so many people use social networks like Instagram, does (the SEO or domain name, etc. of) your website remain a critical part of the process?

Actually the SEO plays an important role in some areas, for sure.

So cool, thanks for sharing.

We used to do that as children as well: a spiral cutted out of paper on top of a long skewer stuck into a potato. Felt like perpetual motion somehow.

It works if you put it on top of a radiator btw.

LMS stands for Learning Management System, I didn't know.

Absolutely. Thank you.

I love Unploy, the documentation as well, but I find it a bit too complex. For even simpler usecases I often use Alpine AJAX [1], which is an Alpine.js plugin giving your links and forms -- only, because progressive enhancement -- basic AJAX capabilities.

[1] https://alpine-ajax.js.org/

I first read about Unpoly in Stephan Schmidt's Radical Simplicity website[1], I liked it's value prop and decided to try it. I found it bit too complex just as you said. A long time later I came across htmx and decided to try it even after reading a side comment that the library was "like unpoly". 15 minutes later I had a simple to-do list running htmx ajax calls using php and mysqlite in the backend. It was so easy I could not believe such thing could exist. Then I decided to read the Hypermedia book and never stopped using htmx in my projects.

[1] https://www.radicalsimpli.city/