Johan Brook

I’m coding & designing, and I like working with product, user experience, and interface design. And other things too.

I’d like to write more (don’t we all), and I consume a (un)healthy amount of music.

You can reach me via email or Mastodon. I live in Stockholm, Sweden.


My fav track is ♫ An Ocean In Between The Waves by The War On Drugs.

Microblog

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    I've decided to move my personal site stack away from free providers to my own server, for education and fun.

    Drivers

    Simplicity

    I've spent so much time over the years figuring out how to wire together services, just because I haven't gone all in and owning my stack. The allure has been "free static hosting! free serverless! free cron jobs!". But for what? I think it's faked simplicity for yourself, since you buy (in best case you buy) the freedom of not worrying about managing a service, but you spend time reading the docs of $provider and getting more and more locked in, rather than reading man pages and crafting Nginx configs.

    Continued ⇢

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    Stumbled upon FitLang by Blain Smith. A sweet little grammar to mark up workout programs as well as logging them. Both the idea and syntax reminds me about CookLang — both are wonderfully nerdy engineery solutions to everyday chores.

    Continued ⇢

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    Seen and done

    During Summer, we hung around in Stockholm area as well as on the west coast of Sweden. It was totally "lagom" (appropriate level of travelling).

    Continued ⇢

Reading

  1. Artens Överlevnad
    Lydia Sandgren
  2. The Three Body Problem ←
    Cixin Liu
  3. Intermezzo
    Sally Rooney
  4. Stacken
    Annika Norlin
  5. Beyond the Wall
    Katja Hoyer
  6. Careless People
    Sarah Wynn-Williams

Writings

  1. Posting to Mastodon when deploying a static site
  2. Mastodon
  3. My favourite software
  4. Setting up Sublime Text for Deno
  5. A whole new world with Deno
  6. Customising an iOS home screen web app in 2021