Shutting down 666a
I'm a little light on disposable income and free time this year so here's the full shutdown plan for this service.
Writing
Accidentally Sending Too Many HTTP Requests
I've been mistakenly bombarding av.se with traffic
Using AI to help humans translate Swedish labour laws
Supporting rather than replacing the inherently human process of translation
Kubernetes homelab on an old MacBook Air
Piss off naughty boys
Ergodox, Ten Years Later
A little hardware review after ten years of almost daily use.
Goodbye Jane
Channelling some of the grief about Jane McAlevey's death into words about the future and how the things I've learned from her provide me with hope and determination.
All laws now up to date!
Sweden's four most important labour laws now have updated English translations
Let's update the English translation of the Work Environment Act
A project plan for translating even more Swedish labour laws
We maxed out Sendgrid's free tier
666a's email volume now costs money.
About Arbetsmiljöverket's New Webdiarium
My nightmare scenario finally happened.
Eurovision Tourists Go Home
How one of Sweden's favourite annual events became unwelcome in one of its own cities.
Can't Buy Me Love
On paying tax and taking responsibility for the society around us.
10 Years Of Global Thermonuclear War
It's coming up on the tenth anniversary of the release of my infamous global thermonuclear war game. It's been offline for longer than it was ever online now. I want to get the story of this thing and its general context in my life & career written down and posted in time for the ten year milestone, so here it is.
Stabilizing Zetkin's Playwright Tests
Reducing end-to-end test flakiness in a real-world open source app.
Fixing 666a (again)
This time I think I've got it as close to perfect as I can.
Atuin and chezmoi are the dog's bollocks
Syncing devtools across multiple machines is a solved problem at long last.
Screencasting Secrets
How getting really good with Gifox, QuickTime and ffmpeg has helped me avoid years' worth of boring waiting around for synchronous demos and feedback.
Maining VSCode Terminal
The bare minimum config to make VSCode's built-in terminal emulator replace iTerm2 for everyday use.
Night Work, Tech, And Swedish Labour Law
To agree to be randomly awoken in the night to urgently defend your employer's business is to take a level of responsibility more commonly associated with a parent of a newborn baby. It's fair for workers willing to invest this much of themselves in a business to expect their employer to respect them as an equal counterpart in negotiations about working conditions and the like.
My SQLite in production epiphany
I got swept up in the production SQLite hype and it's totally reignited my creativity.
Operating 666a
Building sharp tools for Sweden's labour movement by carefully navigating the twilight zone between strict computer interpretations of time and the looser socially constructed human idea of time.
It won’t grow if you don’t delegate
The biggest lesson I learned in 2023 was one I thought I learned in 2022.
Incident Report
A quick incident write-up about a mistake I made that caused 666a to over-alert for a day or so.
English translations of Swedish laws
Announcing a linkable web-based version of the unofficial English translations of Swedish laws that the Swedish government sometimes produce.
Announcing 666a
Launch announcement for my new work environment email alerts service.
My CPWA Experience
How I studied for my IAAP certification
Unions Are For Us
Yes even us.
Squad, Tribe, Union
A new kind of scaling for a new kind of decade.
Why A Collective Agreement
If you don't hear boss music playing right now, maybe you aren't listening.
#kollektivavtal
The inaugural post I wrote for the #kollektivavtal Slack channel at Spotify, which I created on November 14, 2022
Passport Hacking
Trying to beat Sweden's 2022 passport crisis using code.
Tailbone Instructions
How to jump, slam, fly, and combo
doomfire
Fire animation in pure CSS inspired by the PlayStation version of DOOM.
Lost in space
Trying to simulate gravity and failing.
Scalable spacetime
Pressing fast-forward on simulated planetary movement.
Apple Pie From Scratch
Learning about 2D graphics programming by rendering a cosy little universe.
Gaming's Persecution Complex
You are not an oppressed minority just because you enjoy playing video games in your spare time.
That Weird Keyboard
My experience building an Ergodox, relearning to type, and saving myself from an otherwise career-ending RSI.
Monty Is Wrong
An angry response to sexist remarks by MySQL creator Monty Widenius.
I am not planning any nuclear attacks
Here are my whiteboard designs. They're for a nuclear war videogame I'm making. Please don't arrest me.
The time I got caught planning a nuclear attack on the USA
“You mean the nuclear attack thing, right?”
Code I Like: Twig Loaders
Rambling about a little bit of design I love in Twig
Monkeypatches broke my build
A couple of months ago I wrote a little about the general awkwardness resulting from monkey patching. I've been burnt worse since then.
Debian Squeeze Vagrant Base Box
In an effort to suck less at dealing with all the various sysadmin-related tasks that come hand-in-hand with being a web developer, I'm learning my way around Vagrant and Chef.
switch (true)
Talking myself out of becoming obsessed with a cool syntax trick I just discovered.