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Nicolas Solerieu - Web designer, father, cyclist and weirdo based in San Luis Obsipo, CA

A reflection on my journey from WordPress to Hugo, embracing the challenges, creativity, and joy of blogging with friction—written as my entry for January's IndieWeb Carnival.

V.H. Belvadi is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030?”. Thank you for hosting and I’m happy this time I could arrive in time! First of all, I want to mention that whenever V.H. Belvadi is hosting the Carnival, it seems to overlap with a crisis in my life. Back in January 2025, I missed his “On the importance of friction” challenge, because I was on a hospital bed, half an inch away from death.

This is my entry for January’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by the always great V.H. Belvadi. If you have a blog, consider writing an entry yourself. …

AI models like large language models can make it seem easier to create notes and extract information about them. But notes don’t exist for the sake of creating them or outputs based on them. Notes are a tangible tool to assist thinking and using too much automation to skip that thinking will reduce the value of your notes.

You have a limited amount of effort you can spend, so let's use friction wisely to achieve the most.

My thoughts on Frictionless Web and why I think small web is truly frictionless

It turns out friction matters. We often seek to eliminate friction through convenience. But we forget that convenience isn't a free lunch.

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds