Had an amazing night in Gothenburg last week, catching MASTER BOOT RECORD live for the first time. 🎵

In the video above, guitarist Edoardo Taddei plays the outro for BAYAREA.BMP while crowd-surfing. Huge thanks to my childhood friend, domidus, for tagging along and filming this moment!

Here’s Jackie’s Guide to Making a Website (by you & for you). Gift it to a friend, to yourself—really, to anyone who needs a personal website. (Which, of course, is everyone.)

Comic panel of a person holding a zine titled Jackie’s Guide to Making a Website. A speech bubble reads so, I decided to put together… my own guide to creating a personal website!

For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away from visiting my parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa.

Leaving and Waving. 🥹

Over the past few weeks, I’ve sent some of my old gadgets off to new homes. Ranging from 1 to 49 years old, they all still have plenty of life and value left in them. Gotta love the circular economy!

Collage of six gadgets: a vintage Canon film camera, a Longines wristwatch, Apple earbuds, a MacBook Pro, an Instax camera, and AirPods.

Here’s Meryl, giving us a tour of her embroidered website. Yes, you read that right—embroidered website! 🥰 (via Ana)

A whimsical, textured embroidery of a pink house with white polka dots, nestled among green bushes and a clothesline, set against a sky with blue and orange hues. Overhead, a plane with a banner reads, WELCOME TO MERYL’S WORLD.

It’s friday, and you should listen to Linus Åkesson’s cover of Sommarfågel by Wintergatan. 🎵

Ragù bolognese in the making—now it just needs to simmer for a couple of hours. This is my go-to when Sanna is away and I’m cooking for myself. 🤤

A spatula rests on a floral plate, beside a black pot on a stovetop.

We're in a weird limbo shift without the right cultural infrastructure to encourage, support, distribute, and curate good quality personal writing and research.

If people are writing thoughtful, quality things on personal sites or gardens, I don't know how we'd ever find them.

RSS isn't dead. Following single sites still works.

But community distribution and curation are the missing pieces.

I really enjoyed Red Rooms. It’s super creepy without relying on any gore, and it’s one of those films that keeps you intrigued as you try to figure out what the characters are thinking and what their true motives are. 🍿

Kelly-Anne is in profile with a contemplative expression, while Clementine gazes downward at Kelly-Anne’s hands. The dim lighting in the room creates a moody atmosphere.

Issue #2 of the Surf Club Guides E-Zine is out, and it’s all about graphics. 👀 Check it out!

The colorful e-zine website is packed with pixel art and cool visuals. Here’s an excerpt: This e-zine is brought to you by indie writers, coders and artists from the Surf Club web-ring! This issue is all about GFX, images, and making cool visuals for your site!

We’re closing our little library for the season. One of the joys of being its custodian is how books just magically appear — put there by its patrons. It’s like a very slow, human book recommendation algorithm. Today, I came across The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas, an author who’s new to me. 📚

The book’s worn dust jacket features a nude woman standing in a corridor with a candle — a detail from the painting Chrysis by Paul Delvaux.

Lake Viken showed us its best side this morning. 🍂

A calm lake reflects trees in the morning mist.

Maybe you should give Klara Keller a listen? 🎵

Klara is holding a seashell up to her ear. The text KLARA KELLER is superimposed over the low-resolution photo, which is clearly intentionally filled with compression artifacts as an artistic choice.

Idag skickade vi nyhetsbrev från Särna och det gick alldeles utmärkt. En dimmig hälsning och två av höstens nya trilogier. 👀 För dig som gillar skräck och/eller sf. 📚

These days, it’s impossible for me to pass by stickers in the wild without thinking of @maique and his sticker spotter project. From today’s hike, the other side of the sign said, “Deadly cliff, follow the trail”.

The backside of a warning sign, filled with stickers.

Overall, we had a pleasant day hiking in Fulufjället (8.54 kilometers).

A foggy landscape with sparse pine trees and pinkish heather covering the rocky ground, creating a serene, misty atmosphere.

We also said hello to Old Tjikko, the world’s oldest known Norway Spruce (9,550 years). 

Missing its top, the looks a little bit sad and lonely against a barren landscape.

Today, we visited Njupeskär, the waterfall in Sweden with the tallest free-falling drop (70 meters).

Sanna, hands in the air, is standing right below the waterfall.

I love how blogs will still be around in the year 2321, according to the Bobiverse series. 📚

Still, a new civilization was always a great view from space, and a purple-hued planet was especially striking. We took a lot of pictures for our blog.

Dennis E. Taylor Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, Book 5)