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My name is Maxime Valette. I have been a web developer since the age of 7 and a web entrepreneur since the age of 15. I have built entertaining websites like VDM (VieDeMerde), FML (FMyLife), and BetaSeries. I am also the founder of FeedPress and CTO of ComeUp.

I am passionate about how technology and data can contribute to the entertainment industry on a large scale. This includes aspects such as creation, production, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

This blog will primarily focus on my technical discoveries and thoughts regarding this rapidly evolving field.

Featured

• Dependence versus Maintenance: Navigating the Shift to Self-Hosting

  Updated:May 28, 2024 |  at 05:22 AM

  Learn how BetaSeries saved money and gained control by moving services to self-hosted solutions, exploring the benefits and challenges of this transition in a cost-conscious tech environment.

• Finishing Beats Being Perfect

  Updated:Apr 12, 2024 |  at 03:10 AM

  In the fast-paced tech world, it's more essential to finish projects than to strive for perfection – a philosophy that fosters progress, innovation, and growth in the face of daunting challenges.

• Understanding Cumulative Layout Shift and CSS Grid Ordering on Mobile

  Updated:Mar 13, 2024 |  at 04:58 AM

  To ensure a seamless web experience, avoid using negative values for CSS grid item ordering, as it can cause content shifting during loading, impacting user interaction on mobile devices.

Recent Posts

• The Weird Intern

  Updated:Sep 11, 2024 |  at 03:57 AM

  Simon Willison shares a playful perspective on using an AI tool as his "weird intern," highlighting its quirks and surprising effectiveness for writing better code.

• Inline Chain-of-Thought

  Updated:Aug 8, 2024 |  at 03:44 AM

  Using Dewey Decimal classification to categorize episodes for a unique webpage, Matt Webb explores how AI makes accurate guesses through "inline chain-of-thought" prompting based on reasoning inputs.

• The Rise and Fall of FastClick.js: Enhancing Mobile Web Performance

  Updated:Aug 6, 2024 |  at 04:20 AM

  Navigating the evolution of mobile web development: from the significance of FastClick.js to modern alternatives ensuring quick and responsive interactions without additional overhead.

• Pushing the Frontier

  Updated:Aug 2, 2024 |  at 05:20 AM

  Delve into the intriguing and speculative question of whether current problems will be relevant in the face of future technologies like GPT-5, posing potential existential risks to businesses.