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AI Journal 2: Vibe-Coding for Fun and Profit

I wrote earlier about how I started used agents for coding a bit later than everyone else who were into AI. I think I'm not the only of in my generation having a bit of a hard time coming to terms with the new reality of not actually writing much code myself. This journal entry is mostly just a dump of my thoughts on agentic coding and vibe-coding based on my experiences so far in 2026. A Bit…

AI Journal 1: The Slow Surrender to AI

I have wanted to write about my AI journey for years. But each time I sat down and gave it some thought, I was unsure about how to express my thoughts about it. Every draft I made also became obsolete in a matter of months, sometimes faster, because AI just progressed that fast. I'm an experienced software developer that has been coding professionally since the late 2000s, and for fun since…

Review: Xteink X4 Ebook Reader

The Xteink X4 has quickly become my preferred reading device for ebooks. It ticks all the right boxes. On paper, it shouldn't, so I thought about it for a long time before I ordered it. But now I'm happy I did. So what is it? It's basically a very small and cheap Chinese ebook reader with an eink display. It only costs around 69 USD plus shipping. Because of it's size it's…

Surfing the IndieWeb in 2026

Surfing the IndieWeb is fun! Like many people my age (old millenial here, to be specific), I miss the Internet of the 90's and early 2000's. Until a couple of years age I thought it was gone for good. Luckily, I was wrong. The small web is all about non-corporate homepages and websites made by individuals. I won't go into details on why this is cool. For now, let me just point you…

Taking Stereoscopic Pictures With Your Phone

The cross-eye method is a way to see two pictures as one 3d picture. It requires the two pictures to be side-by-side and taken from two different points corrensponding to your two eyes. Then you cross your eyes and boom, 3d picture in your face. The process is illustrated by the gif below. Source: Kúla 3D You can try it out on this nice stereoscopic picture I made in 2025. Use the "cross-eye…

Picking a domain name for a personal site

The first domain I know for a fact that I have registered was registered way back in 2001-04-12. I know this because I still have this domain, and close relatives are still use it for email. It's our family name. I have since moved on to a more personal domain for my own email, and I've had plenty of other domains over the years. Often when I register a domain, it's for a blog or a…

Selfhosting Status 2025

I love selfhosting my own services. For me, it's about tinkering with Linux, something I've been enjoying since I first tried Red Hat Linux back in the late 90's. The other reasons is the fact that I own my own data and can replace some of the most common SaaS offerings from "big tech" with my own. My two favorite examples are Immich and Syncthing. Immich is basically a better…

Aardwolf is a great place to be

This is a short review of the MUD Aardwolf , which is still going strong with 200+ players online during peak hours as of 2025. Created back in 1996, it is not the oldest MUD still around, but almost 30 years is still decent all things considered. It's similar to other MUDs based on DikuMud (popular codebase started back in 1991 and used by many), but today's incarnation seems to be…

What is so great about playing MUDs?

I realised I never explained what a MUD is and what makes it great. This is somewhat subjective so it makes sense that I provide my own perspective. (The Aardwolf review that I promised will have to wait a bit.) A MUD is a multi user dungeon, meaning a text-based adventure game that you play with others. It's all text, and usually played using a telnet-client. And a telnet-client is a piece…

Journey Into Modern Text MUDs

I intend this to be a series about text based multi user dungeons (MUDs) for modern times. I want to investigate what is still out there, try out some of them, and see what a MUD is like in 2025. I will try to look at them through a modern gamer's lens and see what works and want doesn't work. Why? I want to implement a prototype of a modern MUD with my own ideas and tweaks, but I also…

Review: Small and simple washer for clothes...

I want to talk a new friends of this little family; a mini washer. This is the Camry CR 8054 which could easily be mistaken for the Adler AD 8051 or any other small washer from the company Adler . They have a whole range, but to my untrained eye the basically all look the same. Except the Camry CR 8052 . That one looks a little different. The washer doing its thing Your browser doesn't…

An Ode to the Old Internet

Disclaimer: I've written all this from memory. It may contain factual errors and other inaccuracies! Also, I'm mostly talking about WWW here, not the internet in general. I've been making homepages since I was around 13 years old back in the mid 90's. This was only a few years after I tried to make games in QBASIC and later, develop games in DOS using DJGPP (neither which…

My editorial principles

Disclaimer: This is hopelessly outdated. Read the /colophon instead. Not only did I change to a static site builder (zola), I even automated some tasks with AI! All content is still written by me though (a human)! I have an idea of how I will approach this website going forward: I want to hand-write the HTML and CSS (and JavaScript, if appropriate). I never liked site generators and…