What I Made In 2017

After some time working on the collaboration between Captain Train and its acquirer Trainline, to bring together both companies’ technologies through a common protocol, and maintaining the SNCF integration through major evolutions of their offerings, I left the company to join Qonto

This bank startup that just came out of beta when I joined (I literally removed the beta tag from the website on my first week) offers the most streamlined online banking experience for businesses.

I brought together a great team. This year, we will focus on making the backend banking integration top-notch.

As a result, I had less time for free-time open-source. There were three big directions to what I did:

• The Shields.io core team increased, and it allowed us to optimize things like the font-width computation (hat tip to Paul Melnikow for that).
• I pursue TheFileTree, to provide the infrastructure for a self-helping community of makers. (It is very far from there yet.) I switched it to using the Canop system, which I still have to make support a full JSON, to allow for more complex apps. I redid the API and made the app system as designed the year before.
• I played with AI in the stride of DeepMind’s [AlphaGo][] effort, and produced a Node.js Go library, badukjs.

To sum up, this year, I switched focus from “me” to “us”. Great things are not a lonely job, but an active coordination.

Next year, I will focus on building-block infrastructure for more cooperation.

Previously.