My name is Emma Fabre (or Anahkiasen), I'm an artist and software engineer originally from France. I'm someone with a passion for creating things and sharing knowledge, and as such have dedicated a part of my life to technology, in particular the Internet, awed by what it could help us accomplish, the gaps it could help us bridge, the people it could help us find, and the way it could tip the scales of power.

Those are all things I care deeply about, being both transgender and autistic, as for most of my life it's only online that I found both peers and people interested in the things I was making.

Path

I started writing very early, then drawing, and so on. I went to an "applied arts" school which taught me how to communicate visually and forced me to expand my horizons and try a variety of medium like photography and proper illustration. Along the way I learned the ways of the web by myself on OpenClassrooms (called Le Site du Zéro back then), but never did I imagine it would become my career and passion, it was just a mean to an end to showcase some of the things I had made.

But when I started working in development and had the chance to put those skills into practice more and more, only then did I realize this is what I wanted to do. I was fascinated by the web, the open source community, and all the absolutely crazy things we could already do with the technologies of that time. The open web defied all the aspects I hated about the system and showed me a different better world was always possible. life.

Eventually through sheer luck I landed at madewithlove, where I found people whose vision of the web, of being a developer, and of life, aligned so perfectly with my own that I've been with these amazing people ever since, and I've kept growing there more than ever before into a competent senior full-stack engineer capable of being dropped in any project and flourish.

This website

What you're seeing is only the last iteration of my digital garden, over here you can learn more about this website.