Valerian Life

issue new NETGEAR 5G router mini monitoring macOS app release to show a notification banner when battery is low and you'll soon be disconnected from Internet, very practical when working from a café so that I don't need to check all the time if I have battery

Screenshot of a macOS application named "5G Wireless Wifinet Watcher" showing detailed battery and connection information along with a notification about low battery and disconnection risk.

2026-05-03 11:28:14 UTC

Valerian Saliou

wake up late and do nothing

2026-05-02 08:44:20 UTC

Valerian Saliou

release a second tiny macOS app to scratch my own itches with my 5G router: DataHawk — github.com/valeriansaliou/dat…

2026-05-01 13:55:46 UTC

Valerian Saliou

realize that I've been using my mac 6 days out of the 16 last days, non-stop

Screenshot of Mac usage statistics over 16 days highlighting usage on 6 days with focus on screen time per day.

2026-04-29 12:15:42 UTC

Valerian Saliou

install iStat Menus on macOS

iStat Menus app displaying real-time CPU usage with detailed graphs on macOS.

2026-04-29 11:53:47 UTC

Valerian Saliou

speed test my 5G NETGEAR router in FR country side, \cc @LeCoupa it can do almost 1Gbps apparently!

Screenshot of a 5G speed test result on a smartphone with cellular data.

2026-04-28 11:45:16 UTC

Valerian Saliou

report 2x server outage in AMS to Vultr

2026-04-26 08:40:59 UTC

Valerian Saliou

vibe code an helper app for my NETGEAR 5G hotspot and other hotspots on the market, to review data usage, connected users and 5G signal strength and battery, \cc @LeCoupa

Interface of a NETGEAR 5G hotspot management app displaying data usage, battery status, and device controls.

Screenshot of the Vibe Code app interface displaying NETGEAR 5G hotspot data including data usage, connected devices, signal strength, and battery level.

2026-04-25 17:01:35 UTC

Valerian Saliou

buy new pants to replace old ones

2026-04-25 12:10:52 UTC

Valerian Saliou

make Kefir with my SCOBY by feeding it sugar and water and lemon

Close-up image of a kefir SCOBY floating in a cloudy liquid inside a round glass container on a wooden surface.

A glass jar containing a SCOBY for fermenting kefir sits on a wooden surface next to ingredients like lemon and a bowl of sugar.

2026-04-24 19:56:09 UTC

Valerian Saliou

trying Qwen 3.5 9B model from my RTX 3080 Ti running at home with Ollama exposed to VPN, remotely accessed by my Zed IDE for agentic coding from my Mac but with AI compute done on my big rig at home

Screenshot of Ollama software running a Qwen 9B AI model on an RTX 3080 Ti, accessed via Zed IDE on a Mac with VPN.

Screenshot of a terminal session running a Python script with an AI model on a MacBook.

Screenshot of a code editor displaying a Python script interacting with an AI model using dynamic workflow steps and agentic coding.

2026-04-24 11:05:44 UTC

Valerian Saliou

drink home made kefir and its delicious

2026-04-24 09:18:41 UTC

Valerian Saliou

order new Tesla

2026-04-23 15:21:46 UTC

Valerian Saliou

check out etf portfolio and realize it grew 20% in 1y

2026-04-22 11:34:25 UTC

Valerian Saliou

drive Tesla back to home after seeing @LeCoupa

2026-04-21 17:29:18 UTC

Valerian Saliou

drive to see @LeCoupa

2026-04-20 08:55:59 UTC

Valerian Saliou

slow morning before improving my macos app to fix bugs observed this week

2026-04-19 07:07:53 UTC

Valerian Saliou

put a silica gel bag in my laptop backpack cause it smells like mold in the main compartment after having spent too much time in humid Costa Rica esp Monteverde and now I understand why there’s silica gel bags in shipped stuff everywhere