Launching My Blog: The Intersection Of Compliance, Legal & Technology
02 April 2025 · Loïc Ribet · 3 min
🕑 02 April 2025 – London – 20:34: Ready! It’s done—it’s really done. I did it.
Here it is—my blog. My thoughts, my ideas, finally existing beyond my own mind. For years, I have wanted to share, and now it exists. It could have taken many forms, but a blog felt the most appropriate—a direct link between me and my readers, if I’m lucky enough to have any.
It’s ordinary, maybe. Just another little corner of the internet. But it’s mine—something I built from scratch, a collection of late nights, lightbulb moments, and 'what’s the point of this anyway?' thoughts. And now—it’s not just a thought. It’s here. And so, naturally, the inevitable questions arise:
What?
What can I possibly write that hasn’t already been written and published in this infinity of knowledge called the Internet? What can I say that will interest people? I know that every thought, every question lands here—somewhere between endless pages and infinite scrolling. So much content already exists. Too much? Maybe. But still, here I am, pushing words into the void. Why? Because I have something to say. Or at least—I think I do. Articles on technology, programming, and data on one side, and legal and regulatory frameworks on the other—they exist. Plenty of them. Yet somehow, they miss the intersection, the space where Compliance and Legal meet Tech in ways that actually matter in the real world—the daily lives of compliance officers and legal experts. This gap is worth exploring. I know this space. I know these problems. They are the ones I’m interested in, the ones I’m working on.
Why Compliance and Legal?
Maybe because I spent seven years buried in law—dissecting principles, falling asleep over French Supreme Court rulings, chasing the logic behind rules meant to shape our lives. Legal reasoning fascinated me—the way abstract principles shaped reality. But understanding the law wasn’t enough. Since 2017, I’ve seen how compliance transforms industries, how policies dictate the unseen rules of business. Now, imagine the challenge of applying such reasoning to our rigid, logic-driven friends—the computers. That won’t be useful for now, but keep that in mind—we’ll definitely talk about it again.
Why Tech?
Because I still remember the feeling of creating my first website at 17—my first HTML page, written in Notepad, using simple tags and seeing the results instantly. That possibility of creation, of manipulating the digital world with consequences on the physical world, has never left my mind.
Where Should I Share?
LinkedIn? Medium? X? Each of these platforms is an incredible marketplace of knowledge. I use them often—very often. But they feel like cages, a set of invisible hands steering content, limiting reach, deciding what gets seen. No—I wanted freedom. I needed my own space, my own foundation. Not because I needed absolute freedom, but because I wanted the option to have it. A place where I could write what I wanted, when I wanted, without worrying about engagement algorithms or the mechanics of virality. So, my own blog. No limits. No interference. Just words, laid bare. The answer was obvious.
How?
That was the final question. Should I use a website builder? WordPress? Easy options, sure—but easy wasn’t the goal. This was never just about publishing content; it was about creating something, exploring, constructing a space from a blank, bare Notepad.
Development → Deployment → Hosting
Each step filled with thousands of questions. Did it take longer? Yes it sure did. But wasn’t that the point? To learn. To build. To challenge myself in ways that stretched beyond just words on a page.
This is just the beginning. Let’s build.