2024

Perfect Days is a very good film about cleaning toilets. Hirayama and I share a few quirks—like lying flat on the floor while listening to music. 🍿

I’m lucky enough that most years, when I review my personal profit and loss statement, the numbers are in the black. After paying my taxes, covering the roof over my head, the food on my table, and saving for the future, there’s usually something left over to give away. I donate to charities sporadically throughout the year, but the bulk of my giving happens around yuletide.

In my family, we’ve decided not to exchange Christmas gifts, so having this extra money to donate is a nice way to get into the spirit of giving during the holidays.

Want to connect an old digital video camera—like the Sony DCR-PC5E—to a modern Mac? You’ll need: a 4-pin to 9-pin FireWire (i.LINK) cable, a FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter, and a Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter. I call it the MiniDV camcorder cable cascade. 😅 It’s not pretty, but it works!

Perfekt start på dagen med en gofrulle och nyhetsbrevsskrivande–det handlar om kvinnorna. 📚

Here’s my new Micro.blog plug-in: 💅 Faviconique! Add a personal touch to your blog with a custom emoji favicon—or keep it minimal with a solid color square. Favicons are the little icons in browser tabs, and now you can make yours stand out. Let me know what you think!

Jansson’s temptation in the making. 🤤

Curious about diving into the demoscene and/or coding for fantasy computers like the TIC-80? Tiny Code Christmas sure looks like a blast! 👾

Join us for 12 days of tiny challenges to gradually introduce you to size coding [writing very tiny programs] and effects! … A little bit of programming knowledge will help but you don’t need a lot. The challenges will introduce demoscene concepts without jargon so it is friendly for newcomers to the scene!

My #DecemberAdventure continues! Here’s a log from yesterday—maybe even non-coders will find it interesting. I’m working on a little thing for Micro.blog. 👀

alt=“A tab group in Safari showing different favicon variants: an emoji (Christmas tree), a solid color (eggplant-ish), and an emoji with a solid color background (panda with a dark gray background).”

izzzzi sounds cozy af. (via maya.land)

izzzzi is an experiment which might be called “slow social media” where we are exploring a multitude of constraints imposed on the standard mechanism of people making posts:

1. posts are collected into a digest once a day.
2. posts from yesterday are deleted, forever, every day.
3. posts are a draft and can be edited until the moment that yesterday is deleted and tomorrow becomes today.
4. posts are only visible between people who “add” one another (“mutual follows”).

I shed a tear or two watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. Do yourself a favor and watch it.

To clarify: there are so many things I want to do, but my chains always pull me back. Luckily, I have found my escape, and it’s not too uncommon today. My great escape is gaming. I boot up the computer, get into position and then I leave this world. It’s not a screen, it’s a gateway to wherever your heart desires.

It’s so cozy following along with the Poetry Camera team and seeing their prototype iterations. If you haven’t heard of it before, imagine a Polaroid camera—but instead of an instant photo, you get an instant poem describing the scene. Makes me want to build one for myself.

But, I do wish they’d designed it with smaller, locally run models. Feels like that could have worked for a project like this.

Jag behöver inte en neonskylt från tv-programmet Sajber.

Don Hertzfeldt:

The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed.

Jason Kottke:

See also surfing the web vs. *waves hands around at whatever it is we’re soaking in here*.

New look for my phone! I’d rather not have to explain Joyce Lee’s more… explicit pieces to my nieces. But Omnipresence is innocent enough to grace the back of my phone – complete with a matching wallpaper. If you’re not squeamish about skin and body fluids, check out joyceartworks. 🍑

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.)

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!

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

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. 🤤

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.

File types hanging out. 🧡

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. 🍿

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

alt=“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. 📚

Lake Viken showed us its best side this morning. 🍂

Maybe you should give Klara Keller a listen? 🎵

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”.

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

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

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

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.

I had a terrific autumn evening, so here’s the recipe if you want to try it out.

🍷 Pour yourself a drink.
🪵 Grab some firewood.
🌌 Look up at the stars. Think about space for a bit.
🔥 Build a fire and sip your drink.
🧝‍♀️ As Zelda, go find that lost horse.

You’re welcome.

Of all the photos I snapped this summer, this one’s my favorite. A bunch of people I love, heading to the beach for some fun in the sun. ⛱️

Less than four hours until I can visit Hyrule again and finally actually play as Zelda. 🧝‍♀️ Reading the four-part developer interview over the past few days has made me even more hyped for the game. I love that Sano-san is the first female director of the series. About time!

We talked about covering up pits because this indeed seemed rather dirty, but when I actually tried it, it wasn't so easy to pull off, and I ended up accidentally falling down the pit instead. (Laughs)

Our new car has the quirkiest acceleration sound effect. 🥹

The video above shows a close-up of the speedometer as we accelerate, along with a silly sound effect that had us cracking up.

I like Henrietta’s take on the logo. 🍃 Also available as wallpaper.

🍏 Pinch me 🍏 I’ve had the honor of working with one of my favourite brands, Apple. I’ve worked with their amazing team to create a logo for the new store opening at Mall of Scandinavia on September 20th.

Ture taking a siesta.

Är senaste avsnittet av Hej (resten av) internet! vårt mest fullspäckade någonsin? Rawdogging 🐶, söndagssidor, sandsimulatorer🏝️, mysiga bloggar, inkomna länkar, det medeltida djuret tulpan 🌷, sju minuter i himlen 🤤 och mycket mer. Lyssna på En ny fast gammal arena. Finns där poddar finns. 🎙️

tulpan, höll jag på att säga, det är inget djur

What Is React.js?

React is useful for making complex interfaces like Facebook’s or for making otherwise simple interfaces, and their underlying codebases, complex like Facebook’s.

Always a treat when Heydon posts a new video to Webbed Briefs. 🤭

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

Adorable! 😍 (via Kai)

"Princess Peach"

🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

Just saw these two updates next to each other in my feed reader. So relatable! Thanks for the chuckle, @manton. 😊

Instead of going for a swim in Vättern, we hopped on our bikes and rode over to an air-conditioned movie theater to see Alien: Romulus. A pretty good way to wrap up a warm day.

alt=“The protagonist, Rain, played by Cailee Spaeny, looks concerned in a space suit.”

We had the pleasure of meeting my new, hairy, brother-in-law this week. Welcome to the family, Ture. 🌭 (Photo via Sanna.)

alt=“A dachshund puppy is sleeping curled up on a blanket.”

Today I learned that the Alien franchise is owned by Disney, which means that every xenomorph egg that hatches, being a daughter of the xenomorph queen, is technically a Disney princess

I love everything about this cake. 💚

On our walk today, Sanna suddenly stopped in her tracks and pointed at the ground in front of her. I didn’t see them at first, but then… chanterelles! We weren’t really equipped for foraging, so we had to improvise and fill our clothes, the water bottle, and our hands with tasty mushrooms. 🤤

I’m seriously tempted to buy one of the do-it-yourself boards. 🤤

Orange FM is a modern cartridge for the Game Boy family of handhelds. You can think of it as a car stereo system in a cartridge, featuring digital tuning, presets, basic radio text support, and other fun features!

My web browser has a Shared with You section that features the most recent links sent to me by friends and family. Sanna thought that maybe these links tell us something about… something? She wrote a blog post collecting the links recently sent to her.

I love that idea, so without further ado, here are seven links recently shared with me.

1. The brilliant human who inspired this post surprised me with the fact that 2 Player Productions and Double Fine surprised everyone by releasing episode 33 of PsychOdyssey. What a treat! We watched it the same night.
2. A Boba Fett action figure sold for $525,000, as reported by my friend Hampus.
3. My brother-in-law recently ended up in a man-on-the-street interview with a local radio show. It was about how he couldn’t make a purchase due to an IT incident, but he was happy all the same because the store bribed him with free fika. Shared, of course, by my sister.
4. Do you believe in ghosts? My niece Ines linked to this YouTube video of some dudes overnighting in a haunted house. The catch? It’s the house where Sanna and I took our families to celebrate our wedding. 😅 Apparently, the highest level of spectral phenomena was in the room and bed where we slept. 👻
5. It’s funny how there are specific themes to the link sharing with the various people in my life. The thread between my cuz Stefan and myself is all about hardware and games. He bought a new keyboard.
6. The ongoing conversation with my brother often touches on the economy and investments. He shared this breakdown of the Golden Butterfly Portfolio a while back.
7. But no one sends me more links than Sanna, so it’s only fitting that her links appear twice in this list and get to round it off. Thank Goodness You’re Here!

That’s it. I showed you mine, and now I look forward to finding out what was recently shared with you.

Are you on the Tapestry beta from @Iconfactory? Want to see Instagram posts in your feed? Check out my new Instagram Connector! 🎉

To get started, download the Instagram.tapestry file. In Tapestry, go to Settings → Connectors. Tap Add a Connector and choose the file you just downloaded.

Till frukostkaffet idag passade vi på skriva och skicka iväg ett nyhetsbrev med boktips. Så här börjar det:

Två nätter i rad har det bäddats ute på altanen. Vi har krupit ner under täckena, tittat på vampyrfilm och avrundat med varsin ljudbok – I Was a Teenage Slasher och Moonbound. Det har varit äkta sommarlovsmys. En fladdermus fladdrade i trädkronorna och ett rådjur skällde i skumrasket.

Fortsättningen finns på webben och om du gillar’t ska du förstås börja prenumerera. 📚

My view right now: we’re sleeping under the stars tonight. 🤩 Or at least that’s the goal. We’ll see if we make it through.

My view right now: if you squint your eyes, you might spot a sailboat traveling along Göta kanal. ⛵️

alt=“View from a hammock overlooking trees and a lake with a glimpse of a laptop on a pillow in the foreground.”

We made ice cream! Again. This time with lemon curd. 🍋

alt=“Marbled ice cream with swirls of lemon curd. It looks delicious, though it has a slightly made-by-a-child appearance.”

Me too! ❇️

,,,, oh I am only going to refer to it as "hittamul" from now on

I recently watched Perfect Blue, and it really tickled my soft spot for retro computers and early web surfing in anime. 💙

alt=“In a cozy living space, Rumi helps Mima set up her new Macintosh Performa. Sitting on her bed, Mima claps her hands with a joyful expression.”

This is lovely. 😍 Open and Shut allows you to produce Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut. (via B3ta)

alt=“A hand repeatedly opens and closes a laptop lid to produce Morse code. Brief glimpses of the open word processor reveal it eventually spells out SPICY.”

It rarely happens, but right now, I wish I lived closer to Stockholm. HTML freewriting in Vitabergsparken this Saturday sounds absolutely wonderful. ❇️

What should I bring?
Yourself, something to write HTML on, friends, and your energy

I just updated my now page with the books I’m into, hobby projects I’m considering, and recent adventures. 👀

Cobbled together, powered by ice cream, from a balcony in Jönköping.

🏖️ Sanna continues her sabbatical, and I’m still tagging along on her adventures. Since February, we went to Gothenburg to catch Dina ögon; laughed out loud to PetrINA; arranged a movie night for my nieces; took a day trip to Bruket i Wiared; had a very nice evening listening to GERD; made that trip to Copenhagen; attended an intimate, beautiful wedding; took the ferry to Gotland and spent way more quality time with family than we usually do when we’re both working. Good times!

Yes! 💯 Your tools should work for you. Don’t feed your scissors! Chris, on today’s ShopTalk Show 36 minutes in: 

You know, I basically got this from Alex, who I work with, who feels this way about tools and brings it up, or at least has many times, is that like tools are for you.

Like you use this tool so the tool can help you. Like I use scissors so I can cut through a piece of paper, but if I woke up and my scissors were like, feed me, I’d be like, no, you’re a weird scissors.

Unfortunately, there are still a few accounts on X that I want to keep up with, like @ZeldaOfficialJP. Just a reminder: you can follow X (formerly Twitter) accounts via RSS.

alt=“The feed reader Feedbin, with five unread posts in the highlighted video games category. A preview of a post from the Japanese Zelda account is shown, featuring a chibi Zelda holding the mystical Tri Staff.”

A The Legend of Zelda game where you actually get to play as Zelda, in what looks like a puzzle adventure? 🥰 Yes!!1! I’m going to bed now, wake me up in September.

I’ve shared a couple of glimpses of our trip to the island already, but Sanna collected a bunch of them in her post Glimtar från Gotland.

I totally missed this, but a couple of weeks ago, Arisa Trew became the first woman to land the 900 (2½-revolution) on a skateboard. She’s 14. Wow! (via Eric)

Rauk Pareidolia.

alt=“A rugged limestone formation stands prominently against a dramatic cloudy sky. The rock has an uncanny resemblance to a face, with pronounced features suggesting a nose and chin.”

We visited Fårö yesterday for a rauk safari.

Panic attacks, beautifully illustrated. Moa Romanova’s Alltid fucka upp (Goblin Girl). 📚

Nighty night, Visby.

Today was perfect for hanging out in the park and reading Kissa by Kissa. Finally, Amanda can get it back—I borrowed it about a year ago. 🫣 I’ll try to make it up by lending her my copy of Ducks in return. 📚

May has been great weather-wise, and I’ve spent some time relaxing in the hammock, away from the keyboard. It’s been pleasant, but it means I’m a bit behind on sharing interesting web finds. So, without further ado, here are a bunch of hyperlinks I’ve enjoyed lately.

• A zine about HTML elements?!1! Yes, please. Multipage Version, Issue 1: We Fucked Up Headings. (via Chris)
• How cute is Alex’s collection of weird little web toys?
• How fun is Max’s website? Check out that bookshelf.
• How amazing is it that Eva has a playable piano on her homepage?
• Here’s Emma’s scrolling lecture on the computer mouse. Read it on your largest screen.
• I’m thinking about setting up a formative posts page on my website, like Emerson and Eric.
• I already have a /now page, but there are plenty of pages you can have on a website. Robb has kindly compiled a list of slash pages for us.
• Caitlin wants your long-lost emails for an artsy project.
• An artsy project I hope to experience one day, away from the keyboard, is the annual My Famicase Exhibition.
• So, what’s in your link pantry? (via Blogroll.org)

P.S. I don’t have a link pantry, but the fifty most recent URLs I loved or hated or found interesting hangs around in the hyperlink hodgepodge.

Make sure to adjust the volume on your device, then enter Alt Text Selfies with sound. 

Sex-kitten is flying through space fucking intergalactic nomads as well as eating gigantic pumpkin-pies. Her world smells of fresh sawdust and lilies. But for those who don’t have access to her mind, this picture may just look like a white person with long brown hair lying in bed wearing a beige t-shirt and beige eye mask surrounded by beige bedsheets.

It’s finally here—strawberry season! We took a short hike this morning and stopped by Rudenstams on our way back to grab these. 🤤

Our little library just opened up for its third summer. We had more books than space this year, but luckily, there’s another little beach library not far from ours that helped us out.  📚

Took this year’s first plunge into Viken today, documented by Sanna. Water was far from warm, but it definitely woke me up.

Sanna wrote a blog post about our trip to Copenhagen, loaded with links and photos of all the food, drinks, and fun stuff we experienced over there. 🇩🇰

Balderdash. Crowded and cozy cocktail joint with finesse. They were into spritzing perfume on the drinks… and the patrons!

One more from this week’s trip to Denmark. This one is from inside Rundetaarn (the Round Tower). Sanna, I, and what felt like most of the school kids in the country raced to the top. 😅

Please do not disturb, I’m writing my blog. 🥰 From the hotel we stayed at in Copenhagen.

alt=“Your typical, please do not disturb sign but with countless stated reasons listed. I have jet lag. I’m writing my blog. I’m at the front desk asking for a headache pill. I need a quiet moment by myself. I’m in the bathtub, enjoying a break from the rush hours at home. I’m contemplating how I can make the world a better place. I’m practicing yoga as we speak. I’m kissing my loved one. I’m on Skype with my kids. I turned off the light to save energy and fell asleep. I’m preparing my speech for tomorrow. Last night was a long night out. I’m watching the news.”

We had tacos and ice cream for lunch today. 😋 I’m a sucker for street food, and Reffen did not disappoint. It’s a cozy little oasis in Copenhagen, filled with food stalls, surrounded by workshops and warehouses.

I just read Lizzy Stewart’s illustrated essay Walking Distance, and you should too. It’s about walking (no surprise there) but more specifically about the experience of being a woman out walking. Sprinkled with musings about moms, gender, social structure, and more. 📚

GERD was in town tonight and the show blew both our minds. Absolutely incredible. 🎵

I be wearing 💙

Remember when bands had proper websites? Some nights, feeling nostalgic, I cue up Rough Bunnies in my headphones and browse their old site for a while.

alt=“Image of a handmade website design on paper titled Rough Bunnies Home Page, featuring announcements and updates in both English and Swedish, with hand-drawn elements such as navigation buttons and illustrations of two bunnies. The last update reads: hello fans and friends, we are very sorry to say that you can’t buy our records anymore because they don’t exist since my mum’s computer got on fire.”

The artwork for L’Impératrice upcoming album gives off a strong Sorayama vibe. 🦾

💙 PULSAR 💙 artwork for the new album from @l.imperatrice out June 7th !!

This piece has been through so many hands and taken various different forms since I made it - this marks the very satisfying final destination of her journey 🥚

This is a fact that often baffles people from other countries: lots of personal information about us Swedes is publicly available.

Want to know when I was born, where I live, who lives with me, if I’m married, what I pay in taxes, what kind of car I own, how much my condo is worth, which company boards I have a seat on, my personal identity number, and so on?

We’ve arrived in Gothenburg! Soon: Dina ögon live at Pustervik. But first, tacos and margaritas. 🌮

I swung by Science Park Towers today to scope out a potential office space. Ended up passing on the offer, but it was a tough call. The view of the city from the 12th floor is absolutely stunning. 🤩 Maybe someday…

Reality (2023) is a film about Reality, the American intelligence leaker, based on the FBI’s interrogation of her in reality. You should definitely watch it! 🍿

Phew. 😮‍💨 Update on apps distributed in the European Union:

Previously, Apple announced plans to remove the Home Screen web apps capability in the EU as part of our efforts to comply with the DMA. … We have received requests to continue to offer support for Home Screen web apps in iOS, therefore we will continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability in the EU. … [Developers and users] can expect the return of the existing functionality for Home Screen web apps with the availability of iOS 17.4 in early March.

Underbart citat från Skatteverkets nyhetsflöde:

Det finns inga särskilda regler för den som är född på skottdagen, säger Vjera Catovic som arbetar som verksamhetsutvecklare inom folkbokföringen på Skatteverket. Hon berättar att de som är födda den 29 februari oavsett blir ett år äldre för varje år som går. Trots att födelsedatumet inte finns med i kalendern annat än vart fjärde år.

Va skönt. Grattis alla 6 670 personer som fyllde år igår! 🥳

Japanese horror movie night, Creepy, with wine and pizza. Again.

How cozy is Frills’ website? Super-duper-mega cozy! (via localghost.dev)

The video above shows the mouse cursor moving around Frills’ site, leaving a trail of colorful confetti.

Updated from my home in Jönköping.

🏖️ Sanna is on a sabbatical. While it’s mostly her thing, I get a lot of fun out from that as well. Thanks to my work being flexible, I can tag along for a few of her adventures. We’ve spent some time in the cabin, planning a trip to Copenhagen in March, and have a couple of concerts and stand-up nights booked already.

🌐 About my work, I absolutely love how the open web is going through somewhat of a renaissance right now. People are blogging, getting into personal websites, and experimenting with AT Protocol, ActivityPub, and alternative search engines. I want to marinate in all that as much as possible, so I’m delighted I’ve gotten the opportunity to work on a few projects with Manton and team over at Micro.blog.

Generative video is getting better with OpenAI’s Sora. Impressive and uncanny af. 🫠

The video above shows an older woman smiling with a birthday cake in front of her, surrounded by people who are celebrating. But, some things are off. Hands melt together, candles have double and triple flames, and an overall eerie vibe lingers over the scene.

Sanna made a new batch of ginger shots today. Yum! 🤤

After Sanna has retired for the night, I usually tend to the fire for a few hours longer. When the flames hunger for more fuel, I grab the basket and make my way to the woodshed while gazing up at the night sky. 🌌

Lots of great advice from Rebecca. 🙃 (via kottke.org)

Nothing exists but social media. No one does anything offline. So the entire measure of someone’s commitment is how much they post about their commitment. Never mind if the noble cause is their day job, the thing they donate to extensively, the volunteer work they do; only the racket made online matters. Let the beginning and the end of thy commitment be the noise you make about that commitment (and others’ lack of commitment), and make it loud.

Went for a short walk after breakfast. A light breeze and −7 ℃ – pretty close to perfect. ❄️

Spending a few days working and chilling at the cabin. I took this photo just before grabbing the snow shovel to clear a path for the car to reach the charging point. It was quite a workout. When I came back inside, Sanna had already lit the fire and greeted me with a cup of coffee. 🥰

Loney Dear 🎵 is in town this Friday, and I had no idea until now. Sold out. 😩

Loney Dear + Cantus Domus - Ignorant Boy, Beautiful Girl - Live @ Haldern 2016 (Rockpalast Version)

I’m not in the least surprised people are using their Vision Pro headsets while driving. Even less so that they are in a Cybertruck. 😅

we really in the end times

The video shows a person “driving” a Tesla Cybertruck while using an Apple Vision Pro headset.

I love the prompt for Glitch’s February code jam: Welcome to my blog. They are also starting a blogroll and everyone is welcome. 🥰

We’re celebrating individual expression through the age-old medium of blogging. Start a blog, make a fan page about your favorite blog or platform, whatever the prompt awakens inside of you!

I snagged a couple of tickets to see Dina Ögon live in March. 👀 Dreamy, folksy, soul from Sweden. Give Orion and Berget a listen. 🎵

Oh, yes! From the Iconfactory’s blog Kickstarting Project Tapestry:

Today we’re launching a Kickstarter campaign for Project Tapestry: A new iOS app that aims to gather your most important social media services, RSS feeds, and other sources into a single universal timeline. All updates and posts together in one place, in the order they’re created, with no algorithm deciding what you should see or when you should see it.

This part of Apple’s announcement is interesting. It means we soon might have the real Chrome browser, Firefox browser, etc. on iOS here in the EU. But no web developers outside the EU will be able to test their websites and web apps in these browsers on their devices. 🤷‍♂️

New frameworks and APIs for alternative browser engines — enabling developers to use browser engines, other than WebKit, for browser apps and apps with in-app browsing experiences.

EU really hurt Apple’s feelings. 😬 Announcing changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU:

The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in the European Union, while helping to protect EU users from the unavoidable increased privacy and security threats this regulation brings.

…

That includes guidance to help EU users navigate complexities the DMA’s changes bring — including a less intuitive user experience — and best practices for approaching new risks associated with downloading apps and processing payments outside of the App Store.

Sanna och jag skickade precis ut vårt nyhetsbrev En skräck, en sci-fi och en sak till. Om du är en läslus som inte redan prenumererar borde du göra det. Nu! Om du vill, alltså.

Vi delar braiga lästips med dig ungefär en gång i månaden. För att vi kan. Och för att det är sköj. 📚

Recharge (via kottke.org):

Installation featuring a chair where you can relax and charge your phone. However, your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed.

And, after about a week, the final Lego piece found its rightful place. 🌊

Jag fick en legoversion av Under vågen utanför Kanagawa av Sven i tredje advents-present, och det har sysselsatt oss under några frukostar och eftermiddagskaffestunder.

Wow, Anh’s Weeknotes 9 really is next level. 😍

alt=“Comic featuring three panels (and two more cut off). Top panel with text “and feel too overwhelmed to start the next weeknote”. Next panel with a woman tucking some hair behind her ear and then a close-up view of mid-December marked on a calendar.”

Sanna just told me Ray Nayler (The Mountain in the Sea) has a new novella out tomorrow. 📚 I had totally missed this. What a nice surprise! 🦣

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.

The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.

We spotted these fascinating ice formations during our walk along lake Vättern today. Nature doesn’t mind getting a little weird now and then. 🧊

For a couple of days now, our fika sessions means Lego building time. 🧱

Kristoffer made a map of the internet and shared it with us in his newsletter. You should go and subscribe and then point your browser to diagram.website and start exploring. 🗺️

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This short update from Chuck made me smile today. Family blogging is the best! 🥰

Dad put up a new blog post about how we restored an old work bench!

I wish more electric cars had lines like the Carice TC2. 🤤 (via kottke.org)

I have a hard time seeing the rabbit r1 going anywhere, but it sure is cute and desinged by teenage engineering. 🐇

You should stop what you’re doing right now, navigate to Lynn’s site, and start resizing your browser window. 🤯

The video shows a website with an illustration of a headphone-wearing character. When the window is resized, the illustration animates and the character starts walking down the street.

Terence posted a challenge today:

Here’s my challenge to you - can you do any better? What’s the smallest filesize you can find for a viewable image?

The Netpbm project comes with a bunch of file formats I often reach for when I want to generate images without a lot of code or external dependencies. They have binary and ASCII versions, here’s how to generate a plain text, 1×1 white image using the monochrome pbm format:

I had a bunch of links sitting around that I meant to share last year, but never got to. I’m just dumping them here now because I wish to kick off 2024 with a clean slate and no link debt. 😊 Let’s go!

First, here’s two hundred and six things a punkist should know (via Veronique) and a synth with a ferrofluid visualizer called Symbiote X. Okay, then there’s (we)bsite – a living collection of internet dreams from people like you and me.