2022

A week or so before Christmas, we traditionally go to the square to pick out a julgran (Christmas tree). This year, Sanna found the perfect one in less than 30 seconds! It’s a stunning spruce, now fully lit and decorated. 🎄

Closeup of a Christmas tree, with electric candlelights and ornaments. There are also a couple of tiny birds (fake) sitting on sprigs.

If you like to share your Micro.blog bookmarks with the world, check out my latest plug-in: 🔖 Bookmarks Shortcode (BETA).

alt=“List of bookmarked webpages: short quotes and links. The first says, “Bookmark improvements in Micro.blog”, www.manton.org.”

Simone Giertz on comfort building:

So I woke up this morning feeling really overwhelmed and sad for no good reason, so I’m treating myself to a day of wearing sweatpants and refurbishing this old fire alarm.

A woman sits at a desk, painting the letters of an old fire alarm. There’s a dog in her lap following the paintbrush’s motions.

Today we made caramel candy. 🤤 Wrapping them all kept me busy for a while.

Chopped up pieces of caramel candy, laying on baking paper. There’s also a glass jar with wrapped candies and wrapping paper.

Happy #FeedReaderFriday! Today I’ll share with you 3 cartoonists to follow.

I absolutely adore Sarah Andersen’s semi-autobiographical comics. So relatable! Most of the time, I feel like they are about me (and/or Sanna).

Also, check out Elizabeth’s and Jonathan’s War and Peas.

I love how Ana’s now page features her current nail polish. 💅 Such a fabulous idea!

alt=“Detail from a website: illustration of a hand with nails in the color bisque. The heading says current nail polish.”

Better late than never: Apple introduces end-to-encryption for “iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes, and more.” 🥳 Available to me and others outside the US “early 2023”.

Apple’s Self Service Repair program is now available in Sweden. I’ve performed repairs and battery replacements on Apple devices: haphazardly and for cheap, with hairdryers, etc. I’m curious, might try the official experience next time my iPhone 12 mini needs a new battery.

Want to print a zine, laser cut a Christmas ornament, or 3D-print a toothbrush holder? Buildlist.org (by NODE) is a superb directory for finding on-demand manufacturers for your next creative project. Definitely bookmarking this one. 🔖

For today’s #FeedReaderFriday, I made my RSS feed prettier. Before, the browser served a bunch of messy XML, but now you’re greeted by a friendly preview and instructions. 🥳

Based on pretty-feed.xsl by Matt Webb. You should add Matt’s blog to your feed reader! 👀

alt=“A split view of the same web feed: before and after. The before shows a plain text XML representation of content. Boring! The after shows a pretty-looking preview of the same.”

This year I made an advent calendar for Sanna. Presents are “hidden” around the flat, and she gets to choose one to open every morning. Loot so far: fancy coffee and a gift card for a three-course dinner (cooked by me).

Yes, some of the gifts might benefit yours truly as well. 😋

A shelf filled with all kinds of trinkets. But also a package wrapped in gift paper depicting Olof and Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen.

If you’re the family tech support, hooking up loved ones with password managers is the best Christmas gift you can give. Online safety is essential, and friends don’t let friends go without a password manager.

P.s. Om dina nära och kära förstår svenska, tipsa dem om min kurs. 😉

I love the opening credits for The White Lotus. Music and visuals! 🥰 Also, does this guy catch any fish? Is he even fishing? Who knows? 🤷

Painting of a guy wearing a red cap, standing on big rocks near the water. Basket in one hand, holding what looks like a fishing rod in the other. Two big ships can be seen sailing away, not too far from land.

With a breakfast like this, it’s easy to muster the motivation to get out of bed. 😊

A rustic kitchen table. A lit candle makes for a cozy atmosphere. Coffee, eggs, energizing juice shot, and granola are served.

Many years ago, I made a commitment to find the Secret of Monkey Island. First, as a sidekick to my sister, who played the game. Then, on my own, once my English got better.

Today, ~25 years after backseat-playing the first game, Sanna and I finally found the secret. 🏴‍☠️

It’s #FeedReaderFriday, everyone! 🍾 If you’re not already, you should go subscribe to Aegir’s blog. Why? Just visit the blog, see a handful of posts, and you will soon know why. 😊

Our morning coffee ritual begins 6–8 hours before the first sip. Before bed, I fill the coffeemaker with water and ground beans. Then, two freshly brewed cups are only a flip of the switch away once we wake up. 🥱 ☕️

Goats graze. Sanna smiles.

A woman pauses from photographing goats and smiles at the camera. The goats are dining and totally uninterested in the nearby humans.

Searching for ice returns a category named Ice Skating in Photos.app, with relevant photographs of my nieces on skates. Also, this:

A man is standing on a frozen lake. He’s holding a smartphone far away from his body in an awkward position. He’s probably about to take a picture.

I wouldn’t call that skating. 😂

Just got an email with the subject line: “Great simplification of our price plans!”. What it should have said: “We’re increasing your price by 67%”. 🥲

Partial repeat from yesterday: same wreath, different setting.

A silhouette of a wreath tied with spruce twigs is hanging in a window.

Sanna, taking a break from writing her novel to tie a wreath. We are ready for December!

Top-down view over a kitchen table. A woman is tieing a wreath using spruce twigs.

Three things to note with my search plug-in for Micro.blog:

  • A search for tire will also match tires and tirelessly.
  • Searching for emojis like 😍 and 🎉 is possible.
  • Results are linkable: [dahlstrand.net/search-sp….

If you haven’t already, check out Search Space. 🔭

I love how the Caproni Stipa – aka the flying barrel – looked like an airplane from a comic book or cartoon but, you know, actually could take off and fly. 🤯

Vintage photograph of an airplane looking like a barrel. Two open cockpits in tandem are mounted in a hump on top of it.

If you ever get an email with the subject line re: fish can, you should know it’s an okay anagram for the word franchise but also a lousy excuse for yours truly to be able to check off today’s challenge.

alt=“Preview of an email from Igor Clomb with the subject line re: fish can.”

I miss you, my aluminum-bodied friend. When was the last time we had a project together? 🤔 We should team up again for this year’s Christmas card batch. 🦾

If you’re leaving Twitter and want to take your tweets with you, notice that the archive lacks alternative texts. Your image descriptions won’t be there. But don’t worry! Thanks to @hbeck, there’s a solution. 🎉

Additionally, and specifically for prefers-color-scheme, sites by all means want to avoid a Flash of inAccurate coloR Theme (FART).

Web developers! Try your best not to cause a FART. 💨 Via Chris.

So I hung out with my nieces today and was handed a manuscript they’re working on; for a theater show. I get to play the role of… Yule ham. 🐷

In one scene, the ham gets a whipped cream cake in its face?! The kid’s uncle will likely adjust the script before the premiere. 😅

With the fall of the Twitter consensus I am energized. I remember what it was like in the 2000s; I remember the liveliness and sparkle of those days on the web. […] The web is wide open again, for the first time in what feels like forever.

Brent on what happens After Twitter.

And then a few months later, the people actually running those instances are going to start flexing their muscle, and the users’ response will be, “Wait, who even are you? This sucks. I just wanted my memes”.

It’s gonna go great!

I’m with jwz on Mastodon and federation.

I have a slight suspicion that the bottle used for my gin and tonic might be possessed. 😈

Closeup of a sturdy bottle. The label says dry gin, small batch. Bottle 666.

I started counting devices with screens in my surroundings but stopped when reaching a dozen. Without competition, the electrophoretic displays featured on my Remarkable and Kobo are my absolute favorites.

Per’s recommendations for online resilience are great. 👌 You can have a place to call home on the internet – domain, and website – for around $18 a year. How cool is that? Share with friends and family!

Struggling with today’s Microblogvember, I thought to myself, “hey, maybe I could find a cool anagram for the word consensus at least”. Sun scones sucked the least. Is that even a thing? 🌞🥯 🤦‍♂️

Hi Greta! Welcome to Mastodon & Mastodon.nu. Thanks for helping us stress-test the servers (which blew up) [my translation]

A Mastodon server admin gets a surprise when @gretathunberg joins their instance. 😅

Got some insight today as to what is going on with the lights in our kitchen. Long story short: the transformer is probably kaput. 😮‍💨

Exposed electrical cables and dimmer behind an unscrewed wall switch. Plastic parts, screwdrivers, and a multimeter lay on the kitchen counter below.

It’s Micro Monday! Thanks for reminding me, @jean. 😊 Anyone who wants to fill their timeline with cute drawings and thoughtful posts should follow @veronique.

Also, make sure to visit her blog! I like the links and etc. pages. 👌

We just released the latest episode of our podcast, where Sanna and I talk about why you should own your content and publish it on your domain. In Swedish – sorry, folks.

We record in a proper studio, so the audio should be free from any echo.

A computer monitor in a retrofuturistic style. Inside the monitor is a lush garden.

Afternoon coffee and bookkeeping. Turns out I’m not exempt from paying corporate taxes and VAT. 😮‍💨

I admire my bed, welcoming me every night, tirelessly, without complaint, year after year… okay, yes, it’s bedtime for me! 🥱

Back in 2001, there was this software I installed (and re-installed) so often that I learned the license key by heart. It started with FCKGW… 😊

  • Private likes.
  • Private responses.
  • Private subscriber counts.

No status games. No trolls. No pressure.

Nicheless is a microblogging platform similar to Micro.blog. No RSS or custom domains, though. Via Dense Discovery.

Any app with access to Bluetooth could record your conversations with Siri and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature … without the app requesting microphone access permission and without the app leaving any trace that it was listening …

– Guilherme Rambo via lobste.rs

I’m reading Snow Crash for the first time, and now I look forward to the upcoming extra material. 📚

This is part of the new bonus material in [Snow Crash]: fragments of an unfinished screenplay that I wrote to amuse myself

alt=“Excerpt from a screenplay. LAGOS IN ERIDU, PART ONE. JANUARY 26, 2004. EXT. ERIDU DIG, DAY. Aerial shot out the side window of a helicopter that is making a slow orbit of a desert archeological dig as it sheds altitude and comes in for a landing. ROTOR BLADE SOUND makes it impossible to hear anything else for the time being. Surrounding landscape is a flat and barren khaki-colored plain crusted with salt in some places and scarred by vehicle tracks. Disabled military vehicles, including a burned-out TANK with its turret impacted several meters away, suggest that there’s been combat–but not recently.”

We’re having friends over tomorrow and baked two apple pies for the occasion. “Someone” might have cut out a tiny slice for a taste, but I think we’re cool. It’s not showing. Almost invisible. Right? 🤭

Two freshly baked apple pies. One has a pretty obvious slice missing.

Everything I have ever learned about Web3 has been against my will.

– Morgan Sung

Have fond memories of the time when games came with a manual? Grow up playing games you didn’t quite grasp, relying on exploring, and just trying stuff to make progress? Oldskool Zelda fan?

Then, you will probably enjoy Tunic as much as I have. Lovely adventure! 🕹️

Nintendo Switch in handheld mode, showing a video game in progress. Isometric view with a pastel color palette. A floating castle in the sky. The camera is far from the player, who is barely seen. The graphical user interface show items typical of an action-adventure game, meters for stamina, magic power, etc.

We’re going all-in autumn. Lit candles for the atmosphere, mini pumpkins for decoration, and dal as comfort food for our stomachs. 😋 A day in the life in Jönköping, Sweden, at 6:07 pm.

A table with two plates of dal, mini pumpkins, and a lit candle.

but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death. … My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

William Shatner felt the overview effect. Via waxy.org.

Had a great day in the forest with friends. Grilling sausages, roasting marshmallows, and taking a short hike. Hair smells like a campfire now. 🥰 Photo by Sanna.

Man up on a hunting tower looking out over the forest. Pine trees grow tall around him.

Tremors in the Static by Vega Trails reminds me a lot of Jan Johansson’s Jazz på svenska. Both are great albums! Thanks to Tom for the tip. 🎵

We had multiple visits from Bambi this weekend. 🥺 I hope she won’t cross paths with the wolf pack in the area.

A roe deer in a garden, giving the photographer a skeptical look on a beautiful autumn evening.

Homemade apple pie and gelato from Wetternglass accompanied this afternoon’s Return to Monkey Island play session. Thanks to @tracydurnell, who inspired @Miraz, who inspired us to bake the pie. 😋

Tasty-looking apple pie and vanilla gelato on a brown, small plate.

I just released the second beta of Search Space (0.4.0). 🚀 Mostly performance tweaks and behind the scene changes. Bloggers with lots of posts and replies will hopefully notice a nice speed boost.

Full changelog over at GitHub.

Jag är med podcast igen! 🥳 Häng med Sanna och mig så (åter-) upptäcker vi allt det härliga med internet tillsammans. 🧑‍🚀 Hej (resten av) internet! hittar du på hejinter.net, Apple Podcasts, Spotify och snart överallt där poddar finns. 🎙️

Illustrerad blick över rymden. Stjärnor och ett norrskensliknande grönt skimmer. Ner till höger står en gammal, skev, datorterminal på ett bord av, ja… Saturnus ringar? Satt i versaler med ett kraftigt typsnitt står Hej (resten av) internet!

Morning coffee and a cute, truly naked, brutalist html quine.

The Search Space BETA is out and ready to be installed! 🥳 My latest plug-in will help you in your quest to find long-lost posts and replies on your Micro.blog.

Thanks for testing, and good luck! If you get stuck, I’m here.

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My upcoming plug-in will suggest search terms based on the content of your blog posts and replies. Pretty neat!

alt=“Screenshot of a search field with three letters entered: swe. Four suggestions are shown to the user: swede, sweat, swedish, and sweden.”

Ever wanted to search through all your replies? Well, soon you can! A new plug-in is brewing, with support for searching your posts and replies. I’m calling it Search Space.

Let me know if you’re interested in beta testing. @JohnPhilpin, maybe? 😉

Photo of a smartphone performing a search on a Micro.blog. The search phrase is @JohnPhilpin, and four replies are showing as results.

Last weekend, Sanna and I constantly gravitated towards the neighbor’s garden because… puppies! 🐶 🥺

Saturday is market day. Today’s haul. 😋

Fruits and vegetables on a wooden table. Apples, carrots, onions, mushrooms, cabbage, plums, wax beans, and cauliflower.

I just packed this cutie and will soon mail it to the next owner. That marks 20 packages sent in the last month. And there’s still stuff left! 😅 Check out my online yard sale if you haven’t already.

An old, but pretty looking, Commodore 64 computer on a desk.

Last week we trekked up the hill Stenshuvud (Sten’s head). According to local folklore, the hill got its name from a giant living in a cave nearby.

A woman on a hill enjoying the view over a vast broadleaf forest. It’s a foggy day, so she can’t see very far.

A huge green beast roams the land not too far from my place. 🦖

Photo of lamp post entirely wrapped by a climbing vine. With a bit of imagination, it looks like a giraffe or maybe a Brontosaurus. A 36-year-old – but it seems like a 6-year-old – has drawn something resembling a dinosaur on top of the photo.

I moved my desk to face the window instead of a white wall. And… it’s nice! I can get used to this. And yes, a plant in this photo needs watering. 😅

A desk is facing a window. Outside, a blue sky and the top of a red tile roof. The room is filled with green plants. One is hiding behind a screen and looks quite thirsty and unhappy.

What a day! After 20 years as girlfriend and boyfriend, Sanna and I got hitched. 🥰

A happy couple is embracing each other in the middle of a rosary. They look very much in love; maybe there's a kiss coming up?

I’ve really mastered the art of setting timers. 😅 Pretty much forced to, when electricity prices vary like this during the day:

A chart shows electricity prices varying between 0.35–5.53 Swedish krona per kilowatt-hour during 24 hours.

Should I start the washing machine or charge the car at the wrong hour, I will pay 15 times as much compared to being smart about it. 😱

To answer my own question, having a yard sale on a blog is totally doable. Yesterday I made my first sale! A pair of Bang & Olufsen headphones will soon arrive at a new home. 🎉

The Hackers on Planet Earth conference was held again back in July. Unfortunately, I missed it, but videos are up on YouTube now. 🙌

Is an online yard sale on a blog doable? Let’s find out! I have 26 things for sale: MacBook Air, Commodore 64, AirPods, e-readers (Kindle, etc.), RØDE Podcaster, iPod Shuffle, PS5 controller, and more.

I ship worldwide, but it’s probably easiest if you’re in the EU. 🇪🇺

A bunch of gadgets on a wooden table. Looks like a yard sale, but you know, online.

Online Yard Sale

Please, buy my stuff. 😅 Currently, I have 7 things to be listed on eBay (or Tradera). But if you’re quick, you can grab them before they are listed. I will give you a good deal.

Everything currently resides with me here in Sweden 🇸🇪, but I ship worldwide.

A bunch of gadgets on a wooden table. Looks like a yard sale, but you know, online.

Soon to be listed, be quick! 🚀

I haven’t come around to photographing these yet. Reach out if you’re interested, and I will snap some pictures for you.

Today we took a short stroll to Västra torget – Jönköping’s market square. Every Saturday, it’s crammed with stalls, goods, and people. Lots of people. Flowers, berries, and mushrooms ended up in our bag.

Containers on a wooden table. Filled with chanterelles, gooseberries, redcurrants, and blueberries.

Turns out our neighbors enjoy reading. A lot! Especially romance and nordic noir. What have you read this summer?

In case you missed it, here’s how we built our own little library. 📚

A tiny shed at a beach with the door opened. Inside there are two shelves filled with books.

We did it! Sanna and I built our own little library. Okay, we hacked a toolshed into a library. 😅 But anyway, now it stands there in all its glory. Looking out over the lake, ready to be explored by any booklover who happens to pass by. 📚

I’ve had a lot of fun the last week exploring Robin Sloan’s cozy new (proposed) internet protocol, Spring ‘83. So many cool things are happening: poetry, link sharing, bots. And, lots and lots of experiments. Early web vibes!

Screenshot of the Spring '83 web client demo. Four HTML cards are shown: Your board, Robin's board, Ryan, and Peter. These cards have their own personal touch to them. The content and vibes differ. One is artsier, and another share links to other boards. It looks like a lot of fun!

Andy is on a five-month journey, hiking along the Appalachian Trail. And blogging about it on his glorious pixel art website. A Trail Tale is a must-see. 🌲

A man is hiking along a trail in a vibrant pixel art style.

Endurance is most essential when hanging out with my nieces. Here’s three of them and yours truly during a theatre rehearsal. When they write the script, I often get the role of a horse. Day 31. Photo by Sanna.

Kids are climbing on a guy wearing a horse mask.

Robin’s tap essay from 2012 is about a dead fish. But also about the difference between liking and loving something on the internet. Day 30.

A smartphone on a shelf. A fullscreen app with a solid pistachio background and text set in a serif font. He'd sit them down in an empty room with a dead fish in a metal tray, and he would say simply: Look.

September last year: working, fueled by wine and fair weather. Day 28.

A spectacular view from an open door. A blue sky with clouds and the sea at a distance. Inside, a woman sits at a table working on a laptop accompanied by a glass of fine. Opposite her, there's another laptop, a glass of wine, and an empty chair. Maybe the photographer's seat?

Luckily, we stumbled upon this written communication during our stroll today. Day 27.

There is a big wooden sign surrounded by trees and greenness, seemingly in the middle of the forest. The word KABEL is written using giant, black letters in all caps.

When this post goes live, overdue will change from 3 to 2. Day 26, schedule.

Smartwatch with a to-do list app showing. It says scheduled 36, 3 overdue.

Hiaklitten is probably more of a hill than a mountain. But, for day 25, it will have to do.

A lovely, somewhat cloudy day. A woman looks out at a spectacular view from a hill. She observes trees, a stream, and a large body of water in the distance.

I love when intricate patterns emerge from simple rules and mathematical formulas, like this bit field. It appears so complex, but the math is concise: (x ^ y) % 5. 👌 Check out Martin Kleppe’s thread from last year if you want to go down a rabbit hole.

A phone on a table displays a full-screen black and white complex but beautiful pixel pattern.

On the twenty-third day, we had sweet potatoes and salmon for dinner. Accompanied by this avocado dip. The recipe? Mix green peas, avocado, and plain yogurt until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste.

A pale, greenish-yellow dip in a bowl on a wooden table.

Six years ago, Sanna and I visited the Textile Museum in Borås for the exhibition Game Over by Per Fhager. Seeing the games we played as kids – and to be fair, still do – blown up big, crossed stitched, warm and fuzzy was fascinating!

A woman is studying a huge, crossed stitched screenshot from the game Yoshi's Island.

With just about an hour left of the day, Music’s Autoplay serves this one up on a silver platter. Symmetry for day 21. Phew. 😮‍💨

A phone with the music app front and center. The album cover is an abstract, symmetrical shape in ANSI art form.

Today’s smoothie: frozen raspberries, banana, and vanilla oatgurt. My typical afternoon beverage. 😋 Day 20.

A delicious looking, pink smoothie in a old fashioned glass.

Day 19 – comics indulgence.

Three comic books in a spread. The topmost one is Efter oss, syndafloden by David Olgarsson. The author and title of the bottom two are partially obscured. However, Moa Romanova and Inne i […] Liv can be seen. All three covers feature portraits of women.

Day 18. There are 875 entries by 116 photographers in the May photoblogging challenge. You will be taken to another random photo by tapping my entry below. 👇

Big button with a die as an icon and the text: Go to Random Entry. In the background are two screens filled with thumbnails of photos.

(Or click here if your Micro.blog client doesn’t support linked photos.)

Oh, man, we had friends over, and I almost missed today’s photoblogging challenge. 😅 Hold – day 17.

A tiny crocheted elephant in an open hand. The background is a lush, blurry green.

Let’s go back in time for day 16.

If you open the pendulum door and peek inside, you will find a piece of paper with typewritten words. Signed by my grandpa. The clock was a gift to him from his wife in 1961.

Every tick-tock reminds me of them.

The top half of a grandfather clock against an eerie black backdrop. The case's color is bone and the white clock-face features black numbers. Westerstrand Sweden can be seen at the bottom of the clock face, and the hands show seven minutes until five o'clock.

Carrot cake and fences on a fika last year. I think Sanna borrowed my phone to snap this shot while I was away fetching napkins for the spilled coffee.

Coffe and carrot cake on a wooden table outside in, what looks like, a garden. In the background, one can catch a glimpse of a roundpole fence.

One of the great things about the internet is that you will always find your community, no matter how niche your interests are. I’m into programming the 33-year-old Game Boy. Seems pretty… obscure, right? Well, when I write this, 821 souls are online on the gbdev Discord. 😮

An old handheld video game in transparent, purple plastic. A black and white maze is shown on the screen, and right below it says Game Boy Color.

Tranquillity for day 12.

A blue sky and fluffy clouds reflected in the water. At the bottom of the photograph, one gets a glimpse of the cameraman, standing on a bridge, holding a smartphone.

During one of my adventures in Death’s Door, I stumbled upon this fella named Pothead. He is cursed by a witch, so his head is nowadays a pot with firewood underneath. Hence his name, I guess. Day 10.

Nintendo Switch in handheld mode showing a game running. Two characters are having a conversation, a crow and a weird-looking guy with a pot as his head. Pothead says: Hello again, Beakface!

Yes, yes, I’ll admit. Unfortunately, today’s challenge ended up being a rush job. ☺️ Day 9: bloom.

White flowers on a young tree blooming against a light blue sky.

On the eighth day, I present the union of egg, cream, spinach, psyllium husk powder, and a pinch of salt. If everything goes according to plan, this will end up as an omelet wrap.

A spreckled green batter on a baking tray. Looks delicous, if you ask me.

Located on the eastern shore of Lake Vättern, you’ll find Omberg Eco Park with fascinating nature and half a dozen trails to be explored.

We took the Ellen Key Trail and ended up at her old villa, Strand. What a view she had!

A woman dressed for hiking, wearing a rucksack, looking out over a lake affected by a moderate breeze.

Day five. Should I be forced to write down my top three places on Earth, the forest of Tiveden would easily make the shortlist.

Standing in a glade in front of a big rock, a pretty girl looks up at the sun beams filtered through the tree tops.

Day four of the photoblogging challenge: thorny. This one is still on my to-read pile, so I can’t tell you much about it other than that it looks gorgeous. 📚

A pretty thick book, Thornhill by Pam Smy, lays on a wooden table. The cover is illustrated in black and white. The silhouette of a house with a prominent chimney on a moonlit night. A person, maybe a woman, looks out from a lit window. The title is handwritten in all caps.

A couple of years ago, I teamed up with a robot for experimental doodling. The paper lantern was drawn by me in Sketch, inspired by a 1912 children’s book by May Audubon Post.

My pen plotter did the rest (guided by the human). 🦾

This marks day three of the challenge. 📸

Doodles of three identical red paper lanterns with a slight offset. The paper is mounted on a thin wooden stick against a black background.

A photo of me, taking a photo of Sanna taking a photo of both of us. Did I get that right on day two of the photoblogging challenge? 😅

A woman standing on the deck of a ferry, taking a selfie with her phone. The camera app preview shows a man standing right behind her, taking a photo of her taking a photo of both of them.

I’ve put a sticker picturing myself on the back of my Joy-Con set. You know, so that I can bring the right pair back home after a night of Switch gaming with friends. 🤓

This is day one of the May 2022 Photoblogging Challenge. Let’s see if I can keep it up.

A pair of Joy-Con controllers with a sticker on the back featuring the head of a guy with long, brown hair, glasses, and a beard. The sticker is split in half, one for each controller.

Spring is here for real! I just had coffee on a sun-drenched balcony while reading the first few chapters of Indie Microblogging by @manton. 📚

E-book reader lying on a coffee table in the sun. The chapter title reads Uses for a microblog.

Today I have to watch where I type to avoid squashing my new ladybug friend. 🐞 My grandma insisted ladybugs have magical power, like the ability to predict the weather.

Is this one telling me I should… escape?

A cute ladybug is chilling on top of the escape key on a laptop.

My copy of Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich arrived the other day. It looks gorgeous and just moved up to the top of my reading pile. 📚

Coomic book cover featuring a closeup of a very light-skinned, sweating woman. It looks like she's having a hard time. On her forehead, there's an upsidedown cross.

In a pinch for a birthday present? Desperate for a going away gift? Buy a pot, a cucumber, toothpicks, chocolate, and candy to make a… candy cactus?! 😅 This one was for my brother’s 44th birthday.

A cucumber showed in a white pot filled with chocolate candy. The cucumber is decorated with white and pink mushroom-looking candies. In the background, there's a Stranger Things poster and vinyl record. The candy cactus is surrounded by natural plants.

If you grew up on the internet making websites, reading this lovely webcomic by Amy Wibowo will make you smile. Go read Home Sweet Homepage.

Comic panel with three kids in front of a computer. The caption reads: A friend interrupts the music chat to show us paint shop pro and geocities on her family's computer. She shows us how to make text on fire. She shows us websites with sparkly backgrounds.

A new Monkey Island from Ron Gilbert! Whipped up over a weekend, apparently. Woohoo! 🏴‍☠️ grumpygamer.com

I just learned Dagny passed away; 109 years old. She was such an inspiration and always spreading joy. In her last blog post back in January, she wrote:

ser fram emot att fira min 110-årsdag i maj, gärna med en liten fest

Wherever you are, Dagny, I hope there’s a party. 🎉

Micro Camp 2022 is just eight hours away! 🥳 On day two, I will share a short story from my life and this one weird old trick that will make your future blog post more accessible.

I look forward to hanging out with all of you in the chat!

Video editing software with an open project named Micro Camp 2022. The scrubber is set to around 4 seconds, and the video preview shows a happy guy sitting at a table raising his hand in a salutation. The title is set in a playful font and reads Accessible Microblogging: A Crash Course.

Micro Camp 2022

I’m stoked to be presenting at Micro Camp tomorrow, March 12. On a topic near and dear to my heart: web accessibility. This space will be updated in the future with:

See you here in a couple of days! 👋

Explore Web Accessibility

My presentation is about alternative texts for, or descriptions of, images. The New York Times recently ran an article well worth reading if you want to go deeper down that specific rabbit hole. The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet Accessible.

The snow made a comeback.

A pine tree dressed in snow. But, as the photo is shot from below, close to the tree trunk, some green is shown as well. Another snowy pine tree with a heavy layer of snow.

My list of books-I-want-to-read-before-I-die is lengthy. And that can make me feel… intimidated? Overwhelmed? So I decided to stop looking at it for a while and instead go back to the classic book pile. Three books. The next one is on top. Less overwhelming. 📚

A hand holding a pile of books. The long way to a small angry planet, by Becky Chambers, Rabbits, by Terry Miles, and Wraith, by Joe Hill.

One more from our ice escapade yesterday. And a unique behind-the-scenes look of yours truly, snapping photos in the most dignified and graceful way possible.

A top-down closeup of a frozen lake. There are cracks in the frosty ice, and the photo has a delicious blue tint over it. A man standing on a frozen lake. He's holding a smartphone far away from his body in an awkward position. He's probably about to take a picture.

We went out for a photo session on the ice today. 🧊

World Wide Web Directory

A humanly curated list of websites. Often homemade, quirky, and personal. Always made with 100 % love towards the free and open web.

🚧 Under Construction

Blogrolls, Directories & Webrings

Smol Web Search Engines

Budroll

“Kind of like a blogroll but with a higher barrier to entry.” Websites by humans I hang out with afk.

Wouldn’t it be cool with a shortcut from your blog post directly to its entry on the Micro.blog timeline? Like a “Reply on Micro.blog” link. You can have that!

Install my latest plug-in. 👇

Install my latest plug-in.

🎲 Surprise me! has graduated from beta to the official directory. It’s a “take me to a random post” plug-in for your blog. Pretty fun!

And, in case you missed it, ✍️ Reply by email is there as well.

alt=“A screenshot of a blog with a Surprise me! link in the menu. The link is highlighted with the comment: “Click this and end up on a totally random post on your blog. Every time! 🤯””

See that 🎲 Surprise me! link in the screenshot above? Every time it’s clicked, the visitor is taken to a random post in the archive. You can have this too! Just install my new Micro.blog plug-in.