Self-employed software engineer/freelancer in Stockholm. Husband, dad, code polyglot, functional enthusiast, finance geek, Linux enjoyer. Efficiency over bloat.
I have been using Gmail since 2007, but now I have decided to stop using Gmail for a couple of reasons. By using multiple Google products, you expose yourself to the risk of being locked out of all of them if you ever do something in one product that gets
I have a home server that's running 24/7. For my wife and me to access the services that are running on it when we are away from home, I have installed Tailscale on it and on our devices. I have also enabled it so that the server
I have used Pocket Casts since September 24, 2016. I originally started to use the app on Android because I wanted a podcast app that worked with Android Auto. I also paid for premium when they still offered premium as a one-time fee. My Pocket Casts stats are: * Listened for:
The latest news that Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading, is the last straw for me. Android started as an open-source project, but Google has slowly made it more proprietary and is locking down the ecosystem step by step. The developers behind GrapheneOS recently wrote
This summer is soon over. At least here in Sweden it's starting to feel like autumn with 15-degree Celsius days. In my adult life, this year I took a record number of weeks of vacation: 8 weeks in total. I spent 2 of them with my wife and
The audiobook Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff turned out to be mediocre. I had heard it mentioned on a programming podcast by a developer who recently became a parent. One of my biggest gripes with the book is that the author talks as if she's speaking for
I'm using Obsidian for my notes. I like that it's just Markdown files under the hood, so I'm not locked into anything. If the developers behind Obsidian ever would start enshittification, it's easy to escape. I'm using Obsidian on Linux,
Almost three years ago I bought the GoPro Hero11 Black Creator Edition, which was a bundle of the GoPro Hero 11 Black camera, the Media Mod case for connecting an external microphone, the Volta selfie stick which also contains a battery for extended battery life, and the Light Mod flashlight.
This blog is powered by Ghost, and it's installed on a Debian server through Coolify in two Docker containers. One container is the Ghost application itself and the other container is MySQL. The Ghost application also uses a volume in Docker for its content (files, etc). I wanted
There's something magical about traveling across a long distance. Especially when you're a passenger on a ship or a train, and when the trip is long enough to require sleeping during the trip. Knowing that there are staff who work while I'm sleeping, staying
Several years ago I read the biography on Elon Musk from 2017 written by Ashlee Vance and I remember finding it very inspiring. Recently, a colleague recommended the 2023 Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson, and I found it equally inspiring. I can highly recommend it. In particular I enjoyed
I have been using Linux for almost 20 years. I installed Linux for the first time when I was a teenager, inspired by the open source philosophy and interested in technology and programming. During these years, on my desktop or laptop, I have used a lot of different distros, such