I'm Ariel, a technical writer based in Lyon, France. I am also an engineer of documentation systems, a multimedia creator, and general techie.

This site has my blog, things I've worked on, and other things I find interesting.

Recent posts

FOSDEM 2025 report

I went to the 2025 edition of FOSDEM. Here is what I came away with.

No markup is magical

We can talk about how good common markup languages, and have our preferences... but none are perfect, and none do everything we want. After a while of using Markdown, I've mellowed out on how I see markup languages.