Jeremy SomsoukJava, a pot of phở, and little games for the kids. A few things about the person behind this playground.
My old website said I was “most skilled in Java and making phở.” A convenient claim: very few people have reviewed both my code and my broth.
I’m a software engineer at Doctolib, a dad, and someone who apparently needs more software projects after spending the day working on software. This website used to say “Just a simple playground.” That still feels accurate, although playgrounds usually have fewer dependency updates.
Java is the part I can reasonably defend. I spend my days reading code, changing it, and trying to understand why something that looks straightforward has become a whole afternoon.
Phở is harder to assess. There’s no compiler to tell me what I got wrong. Just a pot, a spoon, and the suspicion that it needs something. More salt? More time? Someone else cooking?
I’m less confident about everything else I cook. I’d like the phở claim to remain narrowly scoped.
The kids have their own criteria. My job title probably doesn’t count for much. Making a game they can actually play is a stronger application.
That’s how La Cabane started: they needed reading practice, and I knew how to build things. So I made little games. Reading still takes effort, but at least I can do something about the buttons.
I wonder what they’d put on my homepage. Probably nothing about Java. I hope La Cabane would make the list.
Although “Dad, this level is too easy” is the review I’m more likely to get.