About
Welcome to my website !
I am an autodidact developer, I love to maintain and improve code.
I hope you will enjoy my website and find interesting things.
Languages and tools
Here are some of the languages and tools I use and have good knowledge about.
PHP
Javascript
HTML 5
Rust
Node JS
Shell scripts
Debian packaging
MariaDB
MySQL
Open-source projects
This open-source projects I maintain or collaborate to.
Projects
mail-autodiscover-autoconfig
A web service written in Rust to help email software and mobile apps to detect server settings.
mariadb-mysql-kbs
A lib that gives you documentation links and data for your MariaDb/MySQL server variables.
Currently used in phpMyAdmin.
Long term support
Doctum
An API documentation generator, previously named Sami.
It was abandonned since a long time, I took up maintenance with a fork.
Currently used by Laravel and Silverstripe CMS
laravel-fcm
A fork of a lib to send push-notifications.
The author did not respond onto, I forked it and maintain it.
Facts
Some facts.
I created my first email in 2010 at Laposte.net.
Minecraft
I created my account in 2012.
First domain name
I created wdes.fr in 2014.
First company
I created my first french company "Wdes SAS" in 2017.
First job
I did join a company for my first job in 2018.
Second domain name
I bought in 2018 wdes.eu from it's owner.
Became a Debian Maintainer
After a lot of packaging work at Debian, I asked to be a Debian Maintainer.
Freelance
I decided to work differently and started to be a freelance in January of 2021, until the end of 2022.
My company starts business
My company did start business in October of 2021.
Full time at Wdes SAS
I now work full time for my company Wdes SAS.
Resume
Here is my professional and coding resume
Summary
William Desportes
I am a web developer, specialized in the PHP language
- France, Brittany
- [email protected]
Professional Experience
Wdes SAS
2017 - ∞
Entrepreneur
Since 2017, the company Wdes SAS creates open-source software and ensures their maintenance. I work there full time since 2020. The company also offers infrastructure services: Emails, Sentry, virtual machines...
Needone
2018 - 2020
Full-stack developer
Ma mission chez Needone en tant que développeur full-stack était d'assurer la maintenance de marketplaces ainsi que de participer à leur création.J'ai également réalisé des tâches dev-ops.
phpMyAdmin
2018 - ∞
Full-stack developer
Since 2018 I have been a member of the phpMyAdmin team, I contribute on my free time since 2021. And worked there as a freelancer between 2020 and 2022.
Open-Source & Coding Experience
Created my first PHP website
2012
I copied and modified existing PHP/HTML code
Created my hostinger Account
05 11 2013 (but probably one year before)
Starting to discover hosting services
First website for someone else
2014
I started re-building a website that a teacher at my school had
Joined GitHub
June 3, 2014
Starting to discover Git
First VPS
2014
An OVH VPS on CentOS for 1.99€/month
Created one of my first websites on Tumblr
19 Jan 2015
I edited the HTML code in Tumblr, that where my first HTML steps
Creating Minecraft launchers
June 2015
My first steps in Java
Playing Minecraft online on Egyptus
2015
Discovering PHP and Java code by reading source code
Created my GPG key
12 05 2015
Starting to sign my Git commits and tags with it
Created my first Git repositories
19 Jun 2015
For my minecraft launchers
Published my first Android app on the Google Play store
20 Nov 2016
This was an app to read launch menus that I parsed out from PDFs
Created the Wdes GitHub org
12 Feb 2017
To own the wdes namespace
Created my first GitHub pull-request
3 Nov 2017
On the JS mysql2 lib
Forked the phpMyAdmin project
26 Dec 2017
I probably intended to start contributing
I created my first open-source repository/tool
6 Apr 2018
To backup my MySQL database on my RaspberryPi
My first contributions to phpMyAdmin
May 2018
Some bug fixes and enhancements
Created mariadb-mysql-kbs
6 Jun 2018
To extract some data from phpMyAdmin files and automate the updates
Joined the phpMyAdmin org !
5 Sep 2018
I joined the phpMyAdmin org, quite a milestone !!
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More stories to tell. (I plan to move out this list on another page because it is quite long and have way too much items after 2018 to tell)