Back-End Developer & Creative

Frank
Le Rouxe

I create, therefore I am.

Projects

Things I built, many you can try right now.

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Hold the Pose

New ★ Among the most clicked

A party game of poses and distractions: the Athlete holds a pose while the opposing Judge does everything to break it. 54 cards, print and play or play in the browser.

  • Game design
  • Party game
  • Web app

ATLAS: Il Risveglio

★ Among the most clicked

A cyberpunk interactive adventure to learn Java fundamentals: 9 levels, built-in code editor and gamified progression.

  • React
  • Java
  • EdTech

PandaFusion

Professional PDF merger: combine, reorder and track file size (up to 500MB) with drag & drop.

  • React
  • Vite
  • PDF

PurpleTako

A cooperative and competitive card game: collect tentacles while facing human threats and other players.

  • Game design
  • Card game

PurpoGym

Workout planner: build routines with exercises, sets and reps, organized by week. Also available as a native Flutter app.

  • React
  • Vite
  • Flutter

AI Cloud vs Locale, Benchmark

A code-generation benchmark comparing cloud AI (Claude Opus) with local models (Qwen3 8B/14B) on a MacBook Air M3.

  • AI
  • Benchmark
  • Local LLM

Blog

Notes on development, AI and self-hosting.

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Work & economics

Code is free, context is not: if an AI clones your app over a weekend, what are you actually selling?

Between 30 September and 1 October 2026, seven Rust clones of Adobe's applications appeared on GitHub, written with an AI agent. What actually collapsed (the cost of the first 80%), what did not collapse at all (domain expertise and security), and where value moves once source code stops being a moat.

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Environment & climate

Climate is not a technology problem: the plans already exist, what is missing is execution

The summer of 2025 cost Europe 24,400 deaths and Italy 12 billion euros in damage. Yet nearly every level of government, from the condominium to the UN, already has its climate plan written. From the physical causes to the effects on cities and the seven scales of action, the real bottleneck is not technology: it is the continuity of the political and financial framework over time.

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Work & economics

The model is free, the hardware isn't: where value moves when intelligence becomes a commodity

Frontier models are free to download and API prices collapse by 80% overnight, while hardware doubles in price and starts arriving on a lease. An analysis of a value shift along the AI supply chain — and what it means, concretely, for anyone working with data that cannot leave the building.

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Self-hosting

TermHub: my server's terminal, from any device

A self-hosted, multi-machine web terminal with persistent tmux sessions behind Tailscale: I open my work on the PC and pick it up on my phone in under a second. How it works and why I prefer it to an agent like OpenClaw or to plain SSH.

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Self-hosting

We pay for everything, yet own nothing: why I went back to owning my data with a home server

We subscribe for a lifetime only to end up holding nothing but revocable access. Between the spending-perception gap, data harvesting and cloud technofeudalism, reclaiming digital sovereignty with a home server is the most sensible choice.

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