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.
A quick post in two parts.
In the office yesterday, the subject of startups came up. More precisely, the lack of them in the Stockholm tech scenes these days. Where are they? Where did they go? (By "startup", I do not refer to the corporations that are Klarna and Spotify and the likes.)
Based on the initiative Leave X, I wrote to all of the Swedish members of parliament still active on X, currently 230 people. Out of those, 9 people replied within 24 hours.
I've decided to move my personal site stack away from free providers to my own server, for education and fun.
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.