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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! 🐶 🥺

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. 🎉

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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