About me
My name is Benjamin Piouffle. I'm a software engineer, and I've spent most of my career on open source software.
Since 2018, I've worked on Open Collective, a platform that lets communities and open source projects raise money and spend it in the open, so anyone can see where it goes. These days I lead engineering, product and security for the non-profit that runs it.
In 2016, I founded CaptainFact, a platform where anyone could fact-check YouTube videos with others, even during a live stream. Its community ended up checking presidential debates as they aired, which even the big newsrooms couldn't manage at the time. It ran for ten years, and it was a great human experiment as well as a strong piece of technology.
Latest posts
My burner email blocklist blocked me
Blocking disposable email domains at signup increasingly punishes privacy-conscious users while doing little against motivated abusers.
Display channel users count with Elixir/Phoenix + React/Redux
Implementing an anonymized and fast users count feature that can scale using Phoenix Presence.
Fact-checking et score de crédibilité : entre subjectivité et fausses interprétations, le cas de PolitiFact
Peut-on calculer, à posteriori du fact-checking, une note qui jugerait de la factualité d'un·e intervenant·e ?