Welcome

Hi, I'm Alex Normand, a 22 year old Web developer located in Paris, France.
I'm currently an intern at Crédit Agricole where I work as a web developer as part of my Master's degree. I'm a final year student at University Paris Sud 11 Orsay where I'm studying for a Master of science in computer science.

Latest blog posts

Switching to Wintersmith

I've decided to Switch this site to another static site generator: Wintermith. I won't go over the reasons why static site generators are awesome (or harmful) for simple websites and blogs. This site used to be powered by Hyde, an SSG written in python. This post will describe the reasons why I decided to drop Hyde in favour of Wintersmith.

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Automatically Add Vendor Prefixes During Your Build Process

Several months ago, the CSS working group discussed the issue of the -webkit prefix monopoly and the fact that developers usually don't bother adding other prefixes. As a result, browser vendors considered using -webkit as the only vendor prefix and thus dropping their own prefixes (ie: -moz, -o, -ms,...). This suggestion caused an uproar in the web community.

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