About This Website
Don't look for it, it ain't WordPress
A friend once asked why I built my own CMS instead of installing WordPress. Simple: anyone can deploy a blog, but not everyone can build the engine behind it. That’s my trade — designing lean, tailored software architectures.
fabien-haddadi.info is a personal space shaped by exploration: travel, mountains, sport, food, and engineering. These pillars keep me balanced, and they naturally converged into this independent publishing platform.
Content is offered in English and French, the two languages of my Franco‑Australian daily life. Everything here is 100% original:
words, insights, and photography. No dogma, no preaching: just material meant to spark your own analysis.
Thanks to GitHub Actions CI/CD, updates are delivered quickly and reliably, keeping the site lightweight, maintainable, and always evolving.
Enjoy your visit.
History & Evolution
Historically named tropicalm.net back in the late 90s — when it was dedicated to a Queensland trip and budget backpacker travelogues — the site naturally evolved over the years into a personal knowledge base, setting in digital marble culinary discoveries, philosophical thoughts, and sporting routes.
Over the decades, the site has worn many visual and technical hats. Its personal function is to lock down key moments of my life in digital marble (for my kids or for my own future reference). Its social function is to connect with a community of folks passionate about effort, the outdoors, and technical craftsmanship.
And today?
True to this quest for autonomy, the site remains a custom-built, lightweight, hand-crafted system. It serves as a personal time capsule and a way to share authentic field experience.
This site obviously doesn't claim to replace academic literature or act as a diktat generator. It's a nano-contribution to the collective wisdom of the connected world. Mihi et Orbi (to me and to the world), I use it just as much to look up the exact proportions for an almond frangipane cream, to revisit an Alpine pass under the snow, or to inspire another cyclist to head out on a long ride.
Photo credits
Photographic credits belong to Fabien Haddadi unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Comic book panels were AI‑generated using Gemini.
All rights reserved.
Tropicalm Network & Framework Legacy
The original concept behind the Tropicalm Framework (TFW) continues to drive how this site is run: a clean separation between data, core business logic, and presentation — ensuring the content stays timeless, sovereign, and completely independent of passing web trends.
Release v1.6.9