Matthias Le Brun
@bloodyowl
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Hi!

My name is Matthias Le Brun (aka @bloodyowl).

I’m a front-end developer living in Paris, France.

I'm Head of Product Design at BeOp, where we're building a new kind of advertising platform.

Things I work with
ReScript
React
Jest
Sketch
JavaScript
Projects
Putain de Code !
Podcast
Talks
02/2021
Simplify your UI management with (algebraic data) types
Approaching how algebraic data-types can help in UI development.
10/2020
Simplify your UI management with (algebraic data) types
Approaching how algebraic data-types can help in UI development.
03/2020
Migrating a large Reason+React codebase to hooks
Sharing my experience writing complex hooks along with a codemod to upgrade to the hooks ReasonReact API.
06/2019
Third-party hell
Sharing my experience building third-party widgets in the browser hell. Updated version.
02/2019
Best practices
Should we trust "best practices"? A take on dogmatism in the development industry.
04/2018
A good Reason for typing
Revisited version of my previous Reason introduction talk.
03/2018
Third-party hell
Sharing my experience building third-party widgets in the browser hell.
09/2017
Reason for OCamlers
Presenting ReasonML to regular OCaml users, showing both similarities and differences.
09/2017
Reason, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
My first talk about ReasonML. Going through the language and the tooling
05/2016
Flow: strong, static typing for JavaScript
Presenting Flow, and how it helps detecting bugs in a JavaScript codebase.
06/2015
CSS at Scale
Going through the ways CSS makes it hard to scale application and teams, introducing alternatives like CSS-in-JS.
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