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Coding and Hosting a Telegram Bot with Python 🐍

Lire cet article en français I spent a few weeks creating a Telegram bot for a very dear friend. Until now, he had been performing the redundant task of posting content on social media using the same template created with Canva. While Canva is very accessible, it still involves redundant steps that can be easily avoided. With chatbots and Telegram making headlines recently, I thought it was a good idea to launch my own chatbot.

September 11, 2024 Read

Set up a Catch-All email for cheap 📥

Lire cet article en français Until now, whenever a restaurant or website asked for my email address, I was reluctant to give out my real address. I’m obsessed with never reusing the same password, and I also don’t want my email address to be sold to third parties. If this is your case, there are several solutions, including the Catch-All email address which allows you to use any different addresses as you wish.

June 1, 2024 Read

What Windows Server Core is capable of 💠

Lire cet article en français Windows Server is the version of Windows favoured by businesses for their on-premises infrastructure. It offers various solutions, or roles, that are not (always) found in the home versions of Windows. This article aims to overview essential roles on Windows Server Core. Active Directory (AD) What would an infrastructure be without a directory? Active Directory does exactly that: Centralise users Group users and assign roles Manage access rights to resources Manage computers and devices connected to the network Active Directory manages the company’s domain, and users can connect to it using credentials.

April 2, 2024 Read

The Modern Stack of Facebook.com 📚

Lire cet article en français I loved Facebook during my childhood. Today, people from my generation agree to call it the worst social network, still it remains the most popular social network in the world. With 2 billion active users daily, Facebook is “not dead, nor dying” according to its director (March 2023). Launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, or “the Zucc” as we love to call him, Facebook started as a PHP monolith coded outside his creator’s class hours.

February 4, 2024 Read

Boost your pro career with certifications 🏅

Lire cet article en français After 12 cloud and DevOps certifications, I can tell you that I’ve learned a lot. Those little virtual badges have managed to stimulate my dopamine, and the reward isn’t just a chemical reaction in my brain. Some people ask me about certifications, and I want to summarize what I say to them into a single article, so that you too can benefit from this system which, in my opinion, values the skills of everyone, but still needs to be nuanced in the professional world.

July 12, 2023 Read

Host your blog for 0€ 💸

Lire cet article en français LinkedIn, Meta and Twitter want them down! To create content in the 20’s era (from 2020 on), there is a plethora of platforms. Some are newborns (Mastodon, Notion), some are ephemeral (Google +, Skyblog), some are somewhat disliked (Facebook, Twitter), these have a life sometimes shorter than your washing machine. But there is one platform that does not suffer from programmed obsolescence: blogs. In the first post of my super blog, I wanted to tell you how I made… my blog.

April 24, 2023 Read

My new website/blog/CV/portfolio ✨

Lire cet article en français After two weeks of hard work, teaching myself the fundamentals of the Toha theme working with the Hugo framework, I’m very happy to to launch my super personal blog on which I’m writing these lines. I use the services of GitHub to host my site and the superpowers of GitHub Actions to generate the static content of my site. Feel free to give me feedback on my site 👋

April 24, 2023 Read