I'm Romaric Ruga,

• aka. RIMAROK (freelance web-developer)
• aka. IMROK (multipotent creator).

My passion about software design & development is driven by the will to give my creations a shape on the internet.

Back to my teen years, I always felt the urge to use computers and to build things online.

Since my mother bought us an internet connection I started to customize forums, host my static websites and create some JS/PHP algorithms.

After my computer science/company management (MIAGE) master degree, in 2016, I immediately started my freelance life.

Seven years later, I'm still roxxing as an independant web-developper, with a serious interest for sustainable IT and a quite sensible approach.

Currently my main skills are :

• Front-end development (TypeScript, React, SASS),
• Back-end development (Node, PHP),
• Testing (Jest),
• CI/CD automation (Actions, Travis).

I'm also found of patterns !

Nebula is a solution coupling Notion, Gatsby and GitHub CI/CD for a user-friendly data management interface and automated static website refresh.

The main attempt is to create a more light and sustainable alternative to CMS like WordPress.

• nebula-genesis, is cloned from the actual Github repo to fetch data from Notion API and to cache it,
• nebula-atoms, is a set of Gatsby/React templates, components and types to import in projects.

The actual project and process can be seen on the astraliko-nebula folder.

Some of the following website projects also embody this stack.

• rimarok, my web developper professional website.

• imrok, my creative blog for various thoughts sharing.

• highbs-bok, my deep optimistic book saga's website.

During the last years, I played with various JS full-stack technologies.

The following are archived but meaningful projects :

• v5⭐✨,
• v4⭐,
• v3,
• v1.
• A long-time and multi-versioned full-stack project that made me use ES6, React, Firebase, Bulma, Express, Mongo, Bootstrap, Heroku and more.

My goal was to provide data about plants, from a wide range of sources.

I also experienced some aspects of gamification, to make data import more fun.

• motif-js_0.1`,
• motif-js_0.2`,
• motifs-js.

Working on PERMA-DATA and micro JS apps, I found myself trying to re-use some parts of my code

At this point the concept of patterns did really hit me.

• At first it was a project/file system patterns library (ex: read some JS/MD files),
• But it soon became a static website generator.

Then I discovered Gatsby and re-oriented the project to cover both aspect of my website generation system, that I was previously providing through this framework :

nebula-genesis, to query and fetch the website content, nebula-atoms, to display fetched content.