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Sven Dahlstrand

I am an aspiring world's best uncle, co-conspirator with Sanna, and curious coder based in Jönköping, Sweden. If you spot someone hiking deep into the forest of Tiveden, that's probably me. 🌲

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    Just before sundown yesterday, we packed the camera and gear in a knapsack and biked to the edge of the forest. Then, by foot, we followed a trail to this spot. Sanna needed material for a new photography course. I tagged along for company, coffee, and a beautiful sunset. 😊

    Silhouettes of trees during sundown. Calm water in the foreground. The sky is a gradient from charcoal to copper.
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    Today I read Everything’s Fine by Matthew Pridham. 📚 You know that meme of a dog getting engulfed in flames while proclaiming that everything is fine? Well, Pridham’s short story takes on the same theme, in a way. Loved it!

    An e-reader on a tray, showing the cover of a short story, named Everything's Fine. It's illustrated with a skull wearing a tie. A tiny planet, maybe Earth, orbits around the head. The author's name at the bottom reads Matthew Pridham.
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    Another one from our trip to Haväng; a mini-wave coming for iPhone 12 mini. 😅 No smartphones were harmed in the making of this video. 🌊

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    This sticker was waiting for me in the postbox. Look at that beauty! 🤩 Thanks, @jean.

    A bookshelf filled with books and decorated with a green plant and a wooden owl. Center-stage is a round sticker branded with the Micro.blog logotype and the text Micro Camp. It's filled with emojis along its circumference.
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    Close to where I tried photographing waves the other day lies this shed called Vedalaboden. It’s an old ålabod; a place to take shelter and store gear when fishing for eel.

    A weathered shed photographed against a clear blue sky. It has a brick chimney and a reed roof. In the window hangs a net, probably used for fishing.
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    Yesterday. A trip to Haväng for a swim in the Baltic Sea. 🗺 We also caught waves on our image sensors. As one can imagine, Sanna had no troubles. Me, on the other hand. Well, let’s just say my sensor ended up more below water than above.

    Underwater photo. It's muddled with seaweed floating around. There are bubbles in the water, and at some places, one can catch a glimpse of the blue sky above.
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    Today, our MINI Cooper SE passed a funny milestone: 23,456 kilometers on the road. 🎉 Powered by wind, water, and solar. 🔋 Tomorrow, it will take us to the hills of Brösarp. 🗺 Keep it up, Skogsbullebilen!

    The profile of a green, three-door car. It stands parked outdoors; there's a lake in the background, and it looks like autumn.
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    Four months ago, we visited Åkulla beech forests and stumbled upon this spectacular view during our walk. The hiker in the photo is Sanna, and the hill she just conquered is called Hiaklitten.

    A nice, 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.
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    The other day, @zorn mentioned ROM hacking which threw me back to the summer of 2018. One hot evening, I asked myself: what if Tetris only had the straight tetromino? So, I fired up my hex editor and hacked together this thing. 😅 🎮

    A game of Tetris on a Game Boy Color. It looks a bit weird! There's only one type of tetromino, the straight one. The pieces on the screen form the two-letter word hi.
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    Feel these words: bulletin board systems, dial-up noises, Commodore, and Nintendo. Now, this sentence: “a comic about ’90s kids making bad decisions over the early internet”.

    Yep, you should add Incredible Doom on your to-read pile. 📚

    A comic book cover. A biking paperboy hurls a newspaper toward a house. The illustration is mixed up with graphic ASCII symbols resulting in a digital look.
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    Let’s see if we can transform these ingredients into a tasty lunch. The frozen chunks may look like sorbet, but it’s not. Homemade chicken stock and… cava. 🍾

    A still life. Cauliflower, chicken, champignon, and cheese. Two bowls are containing sorbet-looking frozen chucks.
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    This grandfather clock means the world to me. 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.
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    Kantarellpizza: chanterelle, gruyère, and truffle mayo pizza. Mmm. 😋 What kind of pizza are you eating tonight? 🍕

    A pizza topped with chanterelle, cheese, mayo, and chive.
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    Would you like links to the previous and next posts on your Micro.blog? I put up a short tutorial on the Help center yesterday. Check it out!

    Screenshot of a microblog post. In the post footer, two links are leading to the previous and next post.
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    My view outside our kitchen window right before bedtime yesterday. Installing pipes for district heating looks like hard work! The folks down there worked through the night and were still at it when I drank my first cup of coffee in the morning.

    A group of people hard at work installing pipes in the ground. It's dark, so they rely on artificial light.
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    Sanna read a couple of pages from The Labyrinth to me during breakfast this morning. Is it possible to start the day off in a cozier way? I don’t think so. 😊 Reading aloud to each other is underrated.

    A breakfast table with eggs, coffee, and yogurt topped with blueberries. In the middle of the table is a book by Simon Stålenhag: The Labyrinth.
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