The blog is back!

The blog is back, after a long pause. No suspense: this isn’t a facelift, it’s a full rebuild. New stack, new theme, new intentions — and, more importantly, a new workflow. The goal of this meta post is to stay short: explain what changed, why now, and what’s coming. Long-form pieces will follow in the next few weeks.

A rebuild, not a facelift

The site is rebuilt on a new foundation. A table says it better than a paragraph:

	Before	Now
SSG	Hugo + PaperMod	Astro v7
Typing	—	strict TypeScript
Styling	PaperMod theme CSS	Tailwind v4 (@theme)
Theme	PaperMod	”Terminal” (mobile-first, dark/light, self-hosted JetBrains Mono, WCAG AA)
i18n	FR/EN	FR/EN kept (symmetric paths)
Comments	Comentario	Comentario, merged FR/EN via translationKey
Hosting	Netlify	Netlify (Git auto-deploy)

Every line maps to a real problem in the old site: missing types, a theme that was hard to extend, comments split in two between FR and EN. The foundation is new, not just repainted — and a lot more maintainable.

Why now? LLMs as leverage

Writing was the bottleneck. I had (and still have) a backlog of ideas in reserve: notes, drafts, topics on hold. But turning an idea into a clean bilingual post used to take weeks — sometimes forever. The follow-through stayed rare.

With a well-scoped LLM, that math changes. Producing a first bilingual draft goes from weeks to hours. The writing mechanics are no longer the bottleneck — so the cadence will follow. That’s the main reason I’m reviving the blog now, and not last year.

Let me be clear, though: the LLM doesn’t do everything. Framing is still the hard work. Choosing what to write about, why, in what order, in what tone, with what judgment — that stays on me. The LLM executes; it doesn’t decide. The gap between “having an idea” and “publishing it” got smaller. It didn’t vanish.

What I believe about LLMs and writing

I’m saying this as a conviction, not a trend: the text written by an LLM mirrors whoever drives it. Given raw, with no brief, no plan, no review, it produces generic text — readable, flat, with no angle. Driven by someone who knows what they want to say, it becomes a real accelerator.

What’s interesting is that the tool lowers the barrier to writing. Writing something readable has never been more accessible. Anyone can produce a decent post, in a language that isn’t theirs, on a topic they struggle to put into words.

And that’s where the usual objection comes up: “everyone will write the same thing, quality will collapse.” I don’t buy it. Quality doesn’t collapse — it shifts. The barrier is no longer writing; it’s framing. And framing is exactly what already separated a good post from a lukewarm one before LLMs existed.

This isn’t magic. It’s closer to training wheels: the small wheels stabilize, but you pedal and you steer.

If framing is the real work, then the posts that follow are worth reading — not because they’re “AI-assisted,” but because the time saved on mechanics gets reinvested in substance.

No tracker, no cookie

This blog has no analytics. No tracker, no cookie, no GDPR banner asking you to accept fifty partners. It’s a pure static site, served by Netlify.

That’s a choice, not an oversight. It’s consistent with the rest of the site and with my topics: on-prem, open-source, sovereignty. If I want to know whether a post resonates, I’ll read the comments. That’s enough.

What’s coming

What’s in the pipeline, in no particular order:

• Pragmatic SSL/TLS — a long-form piece that’s been a long time coming, on PKI, short-lived certificates, and how to set up a chain of trust without overcomplicating things.
• “A website has three audiences” — a reflection post on who you write for when you publish online (readers, machines, yourself).
• Dagster — the follow-up to the data-platform series, this time on pipeline orchestration.
• And more ideas in the backlog — where you can also suggest topics in the comments.

The point isn’t to ship everything at once. It’s to hold an honest cadence, in both FR and EN.

Welcome — or welcome back — to the blog. The RSS feed is open, and so are comments, merged between FR and EN — write in whichever language you want. See you soon for long-form content. If a topic matters to you, the backlog is open to suggestions.