About

Hi, I'm Iliès. I build software for the web and write about how it works underneath.

Role: Software Engineer — frontend & creative development · web performance · design engineering
Base: France · Europe/Paris (CET/CEST)
Availability: Open — open to interesting engagements. Start a conversation.
Proof: Two tools shipped, claims and limits on the record — see the work.

This is my corner of the internet: technical articles, notes from rabbit holes, and the occasional opinion about tooling. I care about software that stays fast, stays accessible, and still makes sense to the next person who opens it.

The homepage is a scroll-controlled stellar lifecycle: a small visual argument for restraint, pressure, collapse, and the kind of work that keeps its shape.

Not everything I build survives. The projects that didn’t make it are kept in the graveyard — dated, honoured, and left readable, because owning the dead ends is part of the craft.

Fast by default

Interactivity earns its bytes, and text should not wait for JavaScript.

Readable later

The next person in the codebase gets names, structure, and tradeoffs.

Usable by habit

The fancy parts still need real text, keyboard access, and reduced motion.

Signed, Iliès

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Credits & provenance

Collaborators: “Memory Leak: Search and Destroy” was co-written with Lansana Diomande and first published in French on Takima's Medium publication.
Imagery: The Voyager Golden Record photograph — NASA/JPL, 1977. The first black-hole simulation — Jean-Pierre Luminet / Observatoire de Paris / CNRS, 1979. Both appear, with source links, in the essay on why this site exists.
Type: Space Grotesk (Florian Karsten), IBM Plex Mono (IBM), and Instrument Serif (Instrument, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) — self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the license text ships with the fonts in this site's repository.
Tooling: Built with Astro, three.js, React, and Playwright.