Cycl’Assist 0.3 is out!

Posted on October 22, 2018 in Dev • 3 min read

Cycl’Assist aims to be a webapp to ease tracking and reporting issues with bike infrastructures while riding your bike (any danger on the way such as holes in the ground, cars parked like sh*t, road work, etc). You can think of it as Waze for bikes :) Version 0 …


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Reduce webapp build size

Posted on September 11, 2018 in Dev • 14 min read

I recently started working on Cyclassist which aims to be a webapp to ease tracking and reporting issues with bike infrastructures while riding your bike (any danger on the way such as holes in the ground, cars parked like shit, road work, etc). You can think of it as Waze …


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Looking for a flat the modern way

Posted on August 06, 2017 in Dev • 4 min read

I recently moved home and had to go through the painful process of looking for a new flat to rent. You usually want to optimize various criteria, such as the commuting time, but housing websites and their search form are not fit for these. You also end up doing a …


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Localizing a webapp with webL10n.js

Posted on December 26, 2015 in Dev • 2 min read

I am currently working on a Velib webapp. With Élie, we modularized everything so that the backend API can be edited easily, and adapted to any other bike sharing system, hence we wanted it to be easily localizable and looked for solutions compatible with as much browsers as possible. We …


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Blocking JavaScript on a per API basis

Posted on April 14, 2015 in Dev • 2 min read

JavaScript is widely used on the Internet, and living without it can be a real pain. However, JavaScript use raises some security concerns, in particular because some JavaScript APIs can be really sensitive. Indeed, WebRTC calls can be used to detect your real IP even the private one, on your …


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