Nicolas Solerieu

After 13 years of owning a website it’s time for some pruning.

Frictionless convenience claims irritate me.

Clipped in on my carbon road bike, I escaped after putting my son down for his nap.

Most days I woke at 5:30 and loaded a backpack with random heavy objects.

Craig Mod used the expression « feeling waterboarded by reality » as he talks about not getting enough sleep and loneliness.

My new job is great.

I’m surrounded by techno-optimists.

All the future forward statements on a backward platform like LinkedIn, crack me up.

I love minimalist websites.

As this blog attests I complain a lot.

In the wake of Apple’s “liquid glass” moment and Google’s latest Material refresh, the design world is once again all buzzed up.

I hate my office.

We lasted 3 days in LA.

I hear some people are carrying tourniquets in the name of being prepared for the worst.

On the bike and online, there are basically two main levers you can pull to get faster: weight and power.

"thoughtfully cobbled together" seems to be the most widely adopted build ethos from indie bike builders all the way to tech companies. --- I was watching one of those Vimeo bikepacking adventure videos.

I interviewed opportunistically at 3 big tech companies in the last 2 months.

Although not as mature as a lot of other disciplines like science or architecture, web design now has established codes.

I started my career with flat design as the standard.

I watched even less of it this year.

I couldn’t resist jumping over a massive puddle on the trail.

A gopher darts across the road as I approach on my bike.

After 5 years I’m archiving my /notes - public archive for now, removed from the main nav.

Our community pool gates got updated but issues remain.

I joined GitHub in early 2022.

I woke up at 6am after staying in an awkward comatose to give my cosleeping buddy an extra hour of sleep.

Stress is just another word for fatigue.

I have a very personal concept mixing a (modified) Pareto’s principle and (extrapolated) Moore's law: Technology’s role in the world will keep growing (Moore’s law) and at least 80% of it will be used for crap.

George works a corporate job and can’t escape the tech ecosystem.

Years of aggressive minimalism have made me a dysfunctional consumer.

All the (electrical) home-reliance gadgetry here in California really makes me empathize with those in Utah betting their survival on canned food and pickles. --- Pair the exquisite complexity of human biomechanics with the fact that one w…

I tried a few RSS readers because that's what people who read blogs do.

The times are weird.

6AM - I found myself unsettled, trying hard to sit still, shall I say – to meditate.

Readcv is winding down.

This is my entry for January’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by V.H.

Many UI kits (frameworks, Design kits, component libraries…) are selling an easy path to a quick build.

Over my 8 years in California, I’ve met many immigrants who, like me, found a way in the US thanks to a “generalist education.”

Writing this year has been about lamentation, contemplation and consolation (similar to Ann Lamott, “Help, Thanks, Wow” book, which I appreciated).

I’ve passed the halfway mark of my parental leave.

I hear the whizz of a fancy road bike arriving behind me.

I obsessively walk and run a one-mile radius.

The house is empty for one hour.

Neighbor T is a lovely human.

--- There are many Californian archetypes but the most basic one boils down to the ones who take off their shoes at the beach and the other. --- Kiddo finds a banal-looking rock.

Je me suis forcé à finir La Vieillesse, le dernier ouvrage de Simone de Beauvoir.

I seized the opportunity to be out of the house without a child with me to do a detour to my local dispensary – I still smile at the term dispensary.

We moved to San Luis Obispo about a year ago.

I got the chance to design App&Flow latest website.

Buddhists call to relax what’s behind the eye as we tend to feel our sense of self located in the skull.