Learning on Benoit Pasquier

From Engineer to Manager: A Year of Growth and Transformation

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

It feels like it was yesterday when I became an engineering manager but it has been almost a year. I want to take this time to reflect on the challenges and learnings from this journey.

Things to know before becoming an Engineering Manager

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The journey from individual contributor to engineering manager isn’t always straightforward. Today, I’ll share what it means to become an engineering manager from my point of view, and a few important points to be aware of before making this transition.

Transitioning to an Engineering Manager role

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I haven’t posted anything on my website, it’s because there have been a few changes in 2022 that kept me away from writing. It’s time to resume it.

Being more efficient as a mobile engineer

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +0000

I was reading this week about “10x engineer” and what it means in the tech industry. If the title can be questionable, I wanted to reflect on its definition and what it can mean in mobile engineering.

Ten years of blogging, one article at a time

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Most of people don’t know but I’ve been blogging for some time now. Actually, tomorrow will be ten years. Today is a good time to take a walk on memory lane.

Things I wish I knew in my early coding career

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 08:00:00 +0000

For the past few years, I had the opportunity to mentor new joiners through different roles. In some aspects, I could see myself in them the same way I started years back: eager to prove themselves, jumping on the code and hacking around.

I tried to think about what I learnt the hard way since my first role in the tech industry and how could I help them learn the easy way.

Goodbye 2020 - A year in perspective

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:00:00 +0000

Close to the end of the year, I tend to list what I’ve accomplished but also what didn’t go so well, to help me see what can I do better next year. With couple days early, it’s time to look back at 2020.

As software engineer, how to face the impostor syndrome?

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 08:00:00 +0000

Shortly stepping back from coding for a week and reading about the community, I realized it how easy it is to be crushed by anxiety: I see so many great things happening every day, things I want to be part of, but at the same time getting anxiety to be good enough. This is my thoughts of how to face the impostor syndrome.

Should I quit blogging?

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0000

When I started this blog in 2012, it was at first to share solution to technical problem I encountered on my daily work, to give back to the community. Over the years, I extended the content to other projects and ideas I had. Nowadays, I get more and more feedbacks on it, sometimes good, sometimes bad, either way something always good to learn from.

Software engineer, it's okay to not have a side project

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:00:00 +0000

There is a believe that any software developer must contribute or have a side project to work on. Even if it’s great to have, I think there is something bigger at stake doing that.

How to avoid common mistakes for your first iOS talk

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:00:00 +0000

I have been a bit more quite for the past couple weeks to take a break of my weekly routine of blogging. It’s not because I was lazy, but I wanted to take time to digest WWDC. At the same time I had other running projects, one was my first talk at an iOS meetup. Here is couple tips I would have love to hear earlier.

How to create a customer focused mobile app

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Last year, I launched with a friend Japan Direct, an itinerary app for Japan travellers. Even if the first version came up quite quickly, I kept iterate but always staying focus on customer feedback first. Almost a year later, it’s good time for synthesis, see what worked and how we created a customer focused app.

Develop your creativity with ephemeral iOS apps

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:00:00 +0000

From my first year studying computer science, I’ve always wanted to do more on my free time and create simple projects that could be useful for others. I won’t lie, I wish I was able to monetize them but regardless the outcome, learning was always part of the journey.

Build a visual search app with TensorFlow in less than 24 hours

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000

For a while now, I really wanted to work on a machine learning project, especially since Apple let you import trained model in your iOS app now. Last September, I took part of a 24h hackathon for an e-commerce business, that was my chance to test it. The idea was simple: a visual search app, listing similar products based on a picture.

Always keep your skills sharp

Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0000

It has been couple months since my last post and despite the idea, a lot of things kept me busy far from blogging. Looking back, it all articulates around the same idea: why it’s important to always keep your skills sharp.

What I learn from six years of blogging

Mon, 28 May 2018 08:00:00 +0000

I recently realised that my first blog post was 6 years ago. It’s a good occasion for me to do a little retrospective and share what I learnt from blogging over the years.

French Election 2017, don't get fooled by surveys

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:51:54 +0000

Technology has never been as important as today in politics. Everything is related to numeric data. If we only analyze news around US elections in 2016, it was mostly about email hacks, fake news in daily news feed, or online surveys. Concerned about French elections 2017, I wanted to be a bit more active and do something related the last one: to online surveys.

How can a developer do marketing?

Sun, 07 Aug 2016 02:44:17 +0000

Working as a mobile developer, I created multiple apps during last couple years for companies I worked for, and eventually for personal projects. At the beginning, I though the goal for any developer was the release itself: shipping code and moving on, but I quickly found out that it was more frustrating than everything to stop here. That’s how I started thinking about what should be the next step and if a developer can actually do marketing and how.

AmbiMac, an app creating your own ambilight

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 22:58:49 +0000

Philips created few years ago Ambilight, a TV with a dynamic lights on it back. With two friends, we wanted to design an app with a similar function based on connected light bulb during an hackathon. Here is what we have done in 24h hours of code, let’s meet AmbiMac.