Nicolas de Barquin

Fablab manager, maker community architect, electronics tinkerer. I build things, document what I learn, and let patterns emerge from the evidence.

847 blocks · 12 projects · 4 patterns emerging

LATEST POSTS All posts →

Documented projects, learnings, and technical deep-dives — each backed by timestamped evidence.

Building Our Family Data Vault: Why I'm Hosting Our Digital Lives

A personal log on digital sovereignty, transparency, and the family Solid pod server I'm building — including the honest trade-offs you should understand before moving in.

5 min ·6 blocks · solid, self-hosting, data-sovereignty, privacy, family

ndb_hugo: A Knowledge-First Portfolio Architecture

How this portfolio models skills as evidence, not claims — and why that distinction matters for building a trustworthy knowledge system.

5 min ·7 blocks · hugo, architecture, knowledge-systems, ndb

SKILL PATTERNS All patterns →

Extracted from documented work. Each backed by timestamped evidence. Confidence reflects evidence density, not self-assessment.

MOMENTS OF RECOGNITION Full timeline →

Turning points where accumulated experience suddenly made sense — the moments when patterns clicked.

2026

Writing a pattern about the act of writing patterns. The system is eating itself, in the best way.

Feb 2026
2025

Maps of Making federation protocol reuses the same convergence-detection patterns from spacecraft telemetry. A decade apart, the problems rhyme.

Jan 2025
2024
2023

Reading Ostrom for the third time, I finally understood why her principles felt familiar — I'd been reinventing half of them through trial and error at the fablab.

Sep 2023
2022

Building my first ESP32 sensor network, I kept reaching for patterns from satellite systems I'd worked on seven years earlier. Different scale, identical architecture.

Apr 2022