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!
The Traversing Hyrule Trailer definitely didn’t make me any less excited about the new Zelda game. I spot a few game mechanics from Breath of the Wild in there. This is going to be so much fun! 🧝♀️
My web browser has a Shared with You section that features the most recent links sent to me by friends and family. Maybe these links tell us something about… something? Here are 7 Links Shared with Me. 👀
7 Links Shared with Me
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.
- 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.
- A Boba Fett action figure sold for $525,000, as reported by my friend Hampus.
- 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.
- 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. 👻
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
PS. The most recent link I sent away was about the Olympic silver medalist sponsored by Parmesan cheese. 🧀
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. ⛵️
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. 💙
This is lovely. 😍 Open and Shut allows you to produce Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut. (via B3ta)
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. 👀
Then
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!
👔 All this adventuring with Sanna naturally means less time for work. What’s been really weird for me this year, though, is that I’ve found myself spending an absurd number of hours working in Keynote and Numbers rather than Nova (the code editor), and that definitely says … something? Am I turning into a suit?! 😱
Other than a cybersecurity talk I presented to the lovely folks at Smålands Turism back in April, it’s been mostly meetings and meta work. Oh, and yeah, for a short while I was pondering taking a deal for an office space with a stunning view, but ultimately turned it down.
🤖 I mentioned in the previous version of this now page that I find the smaller, more niche, and locally run generative models the most interesting. And that hasn’t changed, so among the major actors, I believe Apple has the most promising strategy. Their engineers definitely put some thought into the Private Cloud Compute system as well. Apple is still an asshat in other ways, though. 🙄
🚧 Time away from work often results in my brain’s background process spending more time on hobby projects. And, as usual, there’s no lack of ideas: I want to produce a zine, my website and Micro.blog plug-ins crave some tender love and care, and it’s been far too long since I last wrote code for the Game Boy. And I would like to set up a Gopher server, and implement a tiny Forth, and play with my AxiDraw, and figure out if I can get that old Pong console running, and … you see my problem. 😅
📚 I’m still on a reading spree, and I’ve picked up some actual book books. You know, the physical variety that takes up room in meat space. Pyongyang, Cryptid Club, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan, Alltid fucka upp, and I Who Have Never Known Men are a sampling of my recent reads. It’s been a treat to let my eyeballs rest on paper for a change. Next up is Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.
(This page is inspired by Derek Sivers’s now page idea. You should make one, too.)
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.
Kära läslus, om du vill ha läs- och glasstips, styr din webbläsare mot dagens brev från En skräck, en sci-fi och en sak till: The Thin Kid och debattartiklar från framtiden. 📚