Writing brings together three different blogs I maintain, each with a slightly different purpose and rhythm.
They overlap in subjects, but they are not really the same publication.
Medium: the technical side
My Medium is where I usually publish the longer and more technical pieces.
Most of them are about artificial intelligence, AI-assisted and agentic software development, new research, tools, architectures and experiments. Sometimes these are practical investigations; sometimes they are reviews of papers, systems or emerging approaches that I think deserve a closer look.
These are usually the articles that require more time to read and more context to understand. I use Medium when I want to go deeper into how something works, why a particular technical development matters, or what I learned from testing it.
AI changes quickly, so a large part of this writing is also a way for me to think in public while trying to understand where the technology is going.
Substack: technology in the wider world
My Substack is generally lighter and less technical.
AI and agentic computing are still recurring subjects, but the perspective is broader. I write about how technology changes business, media, ecology, culture and everyday life; about strange things happening around us; and about ideas that seem worth discussing without turning them into a technical paper.
It is closer to popular science, essays and observations than to engineering documentation.
There are also Substack Notes, which are not currently reproduced here on ABVX. In fact, those shorter notes often get more engagement than my full posts. So if you enjoy this kind of writing, subscribing directly to the Substack is probably the best way to see everything rather than only the articles that appear in this section.
This website: the personal blog
The third source is the blog here on ABVX.
It took me surprisingly long to understand what I wanted this blog to be.
At first I treated it almost like another place to publish project updates: a new book, something I had built, a new experiment. And those things will still appear here. But more recently I realised that this can simply be my personal space on the internet.
That makes the subject almost unrestricted.
I might write about a book I have just published, a project I am building, a place I visited, something that happened to me, an idea I cannot fit anywhere else, or a completely unrelated curiosity that occupied my mind that day.
I also make music from time to time. It can be electronic music, trip-hop, black metal, songs or something that does not fit comfortably into any of those categories. I publish the music and accompanying videos on YouTube, and this blog is a natural place to add some context around those experiments as well.
My YouTube channel is broader than music. Most of it deals with AI, technology and many of the same subjects I write about, while separate playlists contain music, visual experiments and other projects. If video is more your format, that is another good place to follow what I am doing.
Why a personal website matters to me
There is also a more personal reason I have started thinking differently about this blog.
I am Ukrainian and moved to France after the war changed our lives. Most of my older social-media audience on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram is still Ukrainian.
That creates an unusual context.
People I know are living through a war. Some stayed in Ukraine and experience air raids, drone attacks and the everyday pressure that comes with them. In that environment, posting casual fragments of life in France, a trip, a restaurant, music, a weekend somewhere, or simply something pleasant that happened to me can sometimes feel out of place.
At the same time, those things are also part of my life now.
My international and French audiences on traditional social networks are relatively small, so those platforms are not always the right place for personal writing either.
ABVX solves that problem rather simply.
This is my own site. People usually arrive here because they are already interested in something I make, write, publish or think about. I do not need every post to be relevant to everyone who has ever followed me on another social network.
I can write about France today, artificial intelligence tomorrow, a book the next day, and a strange piece of music after that.
If somebody is interested, they can read it.
If they are not, they do not have to.
That freedom is probably what a personal website should have been about from the beginning.
One stream, several levels
So Writing is not intended to become another tightly defined publication.
Medium is where I tend to go deep.
Substack is where I tend to step back and look at technology and the world around it.
And ABVX is increasingly where I can simply write as myself.
Together they form a record of what I am researching, building, noticing, questioning and occasionally just enjoying.