Codes and Snippets — Eliot Fournier

About me

I am a Political Science student currently specializing in Internet Studies and Digital Social Science, both through my current studies and external education programmes. My experience as part of civic projects and online initiatives helps me refine my understanding of digital societies through a fundamentally interdisciplinary practice blending social science, technology, and law.

As a tech enthusiast, I learnt web design and standards by myself, and I'm passionate about complex logical structures and modelization.

As an amateur writer and a citizen, I got involved in various community projects and creative initiatives, which allowed me to develop an habit for teamwork on complex issues, both in terms of complex thinking and technical problem-solving. I love learning new things and spent most of my studies expanding upon my baseline programmes with self-taught skills and personal experimentation.

Education

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Things I Did

Projects & Writeups

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Large-scale compatibility and communiy tools: Codes and snippets

SCP Sigma-9 - Common Theme - Aleph Variant

I am in charge of maintaining and improving the CSS theme and styles used by SCP International and the French-speaking SCP Foundation wiki, and they are an ever-renewed challenge to keep afloat. The "Sigma-9" theme stylesheet is directly or indirectly applied to over 12'000 pages and has to account for a lot of highly complex compatibility issues:

Maximize compatibility with user-generated code whereby contributors are able to apply custom stylesheets to their individual pages and works
Support a large variety of custom and constantly evolving features such as new interface elements that only appear on certain pages
Keep certain parts of the code easily customizable by users through a consistent use of CSS variables.
Make sure the layout doesn't break or cause unexpected behavior during interactions with third-party CSS-altering tools and extensions (dark themes, accessibility tools for colorblind users...).

Screenshot of the Github repository for the CSS theme of the SCP Foundation French branch & SCP International

Front Page Design

I redesigned the home page features for the French-speaking SCP Foundation wiki (~500k impressions/month - Google Search Console).

UX/UI design for Wikidot websites always turns out to be an exercise in constrained optimization due to the many limitations imposed by the platform beyond our control: imposed rigid interface DOM structure from the 2010s, no compatibility with popular libraries and tools, very limited to no JavaScript support... All features, even interactive ones, have to fit within a CSS-only framework and always prove a challenge to make work.