Introduction: Once Upon a Time, a Secret Laboratory
As a child, my ambition was clear: when I grew up, I would be a "mad scientist." I spent afternoons filling an orange binder with outlandish projects: robots of every shape, complex machines, and improbable inventions. I dreamed of buying an Ape Car to build my mobile secret laboratory inside it—an idea that, I admit, still fascinates me sometimes.
That creative energy led me to play with LEGOs for hours and dismantle any technological device I could get my hands on (with the small drawback that, most of the time, I didn't know how to put it back together). It was my personal exploration of the world, a way to understand how things worked "from the inside."
That energy and curiosity never went out. They just evolved.
Today, that orange binder and the dream of a mobile laboratory have taken a new form. This website is my new laboratory. It's the digital space where I continue to experiment, build, and bring my ideas to life, just as I did as a child, but with different tools: no longer markers and graph paper, but code, software architectures, and an endless passion for technology.
Building the Laboratory: The Technical Foundations
To build this digital space, I carefully chose my tools. I opted for SvelteKit 5, appreciating its intrinsic reactivity and excellent developer experience. TypeScript was fundamental to ensure code robustness and maintainability through strong typing, reducing errors and facilitating scalability. For the user interface, Tailwind CSS 4 allowed me rapid and highly customizable creation of responsive design while maintaining impeccable style management.
Robot drawings like Triangolix and Volix
For deployment, I chose Cloudflare Pages for its speed and the efficiency of its cutting-edge serverless infrastructure. In the future, I intend to explore migration to Cloudflare Workers to achieve greater server-side flexibility and handle more complex logic or APIs directly at the edge, further optimizing performance.
The most important choice for content management was a JSON file-based system, without a traditional database. This approach proved most convenient for this project's specific needs, particularly for ensuring extremely direct and performant access to data like URL translations and content metadata, essential for my multilingual routing system. Direct integration of JSON data into the build process gave me full control and made data immediately available and optimized. For now, it's the ideal solution, though I'll consider returning to more conventional databases if needs evolve in the future.
The Experiments: A Living, Evolving Portfolio
A laboratory isn't a gallery of finished works, but a place of continuous creation. That's why you won't find only "Completed" projects here. I constantly work on numerous initiatives and always have several active projects simultaneously. So I wanted to create space for "Work In Progress" experiments, to show you what I'm working on in real-time, even if it's not yet complete. It's a choice to give you a broader glimpse of my development process, showing my proactivity, problem-solving ability, and continuous learning process, inviting you to follow the development and see an idea's growth from its earliest stages.
The idea of also showing embryonic phases, "concepts," and sparks of new ideas is something I'm still framing and defining. I want to find the right way to tell the story of the creative chaos that precedes every structured project.
The Next Evolution: Me, My Site, and a New Partner
This laboratory is designed to evolve. And just like any self-respecting "mad scientist," I'm always searching for new, powerful tools to transform ideas into reality.
Recently, a new "partner" has joined my workbench, an assistant that's revolutionizing how I plan, write code, and even create content like this. I'm talking about Artificial Intelligence.
I'll tell you in detail about this extraordinary symbiosis and how it's empowering my laboratory's capabilities in my next article. For now, I invite you to explore this space, browse through my experiments, and feel at home in my new digital laboratory.