Hi, I'm Emilie.

A path that didn't start with code

My background isn't in computer science. I studied languages, then moved into data science. For a long time, software development was something I admired from the outside — a world I kept thinking I'd "one day" step into.

That day came in January 2025. I joined the Apple Foundation Program at Simplon, a four-week intensive in Swift and iOS development. I kept building on my own afterwards, but something didn't sit right. I was making things that looked nice — and that's it. I wanted to learn how things actually work underneath.

Choosing the hard language on purpose

I didn't want to start with Python or JavaScript or HTML/CSS. Everyone starts there. I'd heard about Rust — vaguely, mostly that it had a reputation for being hard, sometimes brutally hard for newcomers.

That was exactly what I wanted. On October 27, 2025, I wrote my first line of Rust. And then I fell in love.

A few weeks later, I started shipping. minikv came in December 2025 and crossed 300 stars on GitHub. Whispem — a small language I designed end-to-end — saw its v1 release on February 1, 2026. I built dprism, founded the Rust Aix-Marseille meetup, and got featured in Programmez! magazine. Rust didn't make me a developer. The work did. Rust just gave me a place worth working hard for.

Why I built WhispHub

I started WhispHub on November 11, 2025, and I rebuilt it more than once. There were versions I didn't like. Versions that worked but felt off. I kept the project private, kept iterating, and didn't show anything publicly until I was actually proud of it. The first time I shared WhispHub on LinkedIn was Thursday, April 23, 2026 — almost six months after the first commit.

That delay was deliberate. Building in public is wonderful advice for some, but I needed time to find what this thing was really about.

What kept pulling me back was the same observation. Every project a maker builds becomes a GitHub repo, and a GitHub repo is great for code — but it's not great for the why. It doesn't tell you what the maker was thinking, what problem they were solving, what made them excited. The "why" gets buried under issues, commits, and pull requests, or it never gets written down at all.

I wanted a quieter place. Somewhere a project could be a living page instead of a forgotten folder. Somewhere makers — especially solo makers, side-project people, students, learners — could share what they're building, share why, and find others who actually listen.

That's WhispHub. Small ideas, big echoes.

What I'm building toward

WhispHub is built end-to-end by me, in Rust on the backend and Astro on the front, hosted on Railway. It's transparent about its tech, opinionated about its tone, and free to use. I'm not chasing scale for its own sake. I'm building the kind of place I would have wanted when I started six months ago — calm, honest, focused on the work.

If that resonates with you, you're already in the right place.