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About me
My name is Alexis Riche, I was born in the '80s, in France.
I grew up with pencils, felt-tip markers and a game controller in my hands; then as a teenager I discovered computers, which brought all my passions together.
Thousands of hours spent fiddling with word processing, drawing, 3D modeling software...
And then Theme Park.
Weekends and nights spent making music, Flash animations, video edits...
And then Half-Life.
Browsing, chatting, downloading, uploading, coding, building my own little corner of the Internet...
And then Deus Ex.
As an adult, I had the chance to work as a front-end web developer in a Web agency, then as a graphic designer and eventually as an art director in visual communication and event agencies.
Today I'm a Manager, hierarchically far from the pixel but never far from design. Here I share with you the subjects that are dear to my heart.
About the name of this place
Entropy is a concept from physics that measures the disorder of a system.
The second law of thermodynamics states that this disorder inexorably spreads, everywhere in the universe.
Only one force opposes this phenomenon: a complex piece of machinery commonly known as "life".
Through iterations, life enabled the development of the human brain, an organ capable of conceptualizing solutions to create negative entropy.
Design is one of them.
Have you noticed?
No intrusive pop-in when you open the site forcing you to accept tracking cookies, no ads, no doom scrolling, no militant "likes", no AI slop — just a good old-fashioned blog, where I cover the topics I like, the way I like, respecting your attention span.
I hope you find these reads interesting and that they give you some pleasant moments.
You can support me by buying me a coffee, if you enjoy this project.