Or, at least, Steve Yegge said so - before completely stopping to write blogs a couple months (years ?) ago (probably after the infamous “Amazon rant” incident.

So here I am.

I used to have a stupid blog (in french) about the news called La semaine qui…. For about three years, I wrote one article a week about the past events (usually during the week-end, with a varying publishing schedule.)

I stopped in October 2015, because :

  1. reading the news is bad for your health.
  2. reading about French news is really depressing.
  3. making jokes about depressing stuff is what real comedians do (before they start visiting rehab centers), and I'm not a real comedian (I just play one on stage, in between my day-job as a Software Engineer.)
  4. I yet had to write an hour of sketches to even consider myself an unreal comedian, so I needed the time.

So this blog will be about anything but the news.

Most probably, software and tech. (Did I mention I’m a software engineer ?)

I’ve been missing “learning a new language every 6 months”.

Hopefully, one of the next topic will be Elm, the language with the most polite compiler :

--- This is purely teasing
module Tailend exposing (..)

import Html exposing (..)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Html.Events exposing (onInput)
import String exposing (toInt)

-- MODEL

type ValidationError
    = NoAge
    | InvalidAge
    | NoExpected
    | InvalidExpected
    | InvalidRange

--- Did I mention I'm just teasing ;) ?
--- That, and testing Jekyll (poor) support for syntax highlighting.

(Or maybe I’ll just waste spend a few hours figuring how to get the syntax highlighter to work as I want.)

Now go out, and write your own blog, too.

Steve said so.