What Am I up to these days

Updated: 2020-02-17

Random facts

  • Founder at FirePress 👨‍💻 (Website hosting on Ghost)
  • One of my GitHub project is getting some traction
  • Je me présente à travers ce post —  Qui suis-je
  • I live in Montréal, Canada.
  • My personality type is the debater (ENTP-A).
  • Former reality show singer at Star Académie 2003. Think of it as an American Idol version of the show in Québec Canada
  • I released a minimal tech song. You can listen the video here
  • Launch my first business at 23 years old. I’ve been CEO and sound engineer for 7 years at Studio Transology
  • By far Twitter is the place where I enjoy to connect with people outside my physical entourage.
  • I keep in decent shape by going to the gym 3-4 times a week

Focus

Here are the things I actively prevent myself to do. I need to focus and execute the big plan.

  • Start learning about AI with this awesome course
  • Learning Python, Go, Nodejs, K8s, Ansible, Terraform
  • Moding an old car
  • Build an Alexa skill
  • Start learning to day trade
  • Deploy Discourse stack

YouTube

  • My Vlog #OneStepAtATime — I’m starting the show « One Step at a Time» as I realize that I still have a good 50 years in front of me. I want to share my personnal journey as I believe it’s gonna be an outstanding one. It’s also to remind myself that when I’m impatient, life is not about the destination, it’s about
    the journey.
  • The #AskMeAboutYourWebsite show — I'm documenting FirePress’s journey 🌇 for the next 10 years. This is a place where I allow myself to go deep into our vision of building an outstanding website on 🔥📰.

Archives

  • I'm moving my CI/CD from Travis to Github Actions (workflow) (example)
  • I just upgraded my office that have a better lighting, sound and fun
  • My iPhone home screen looks like this
  • Just moved in to a new apartment. I will now have an office that looks like an office.
  • Had a great diner with an old friend David L. It's one of those nights that makes friends one of the greatest part of life.
  • I'm a Docker mentor at the Montréal meetup events.(april 18). I decided to not continue to be a mentor as I have to make priorities.
  • Sold my fancy car about 4 weeks ago. I'm surprised to say I don't miss it. I did this move to put the cash in my startup as I bootstrap it. (nov 17)
  • Sold my scooter and bought an e-bike instead. (nov 17)
  • I previously launched two startups:
  • repost
  • FollowFi
  • FirePress (the one I'm building at the moment is my third one)

P.S. This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.