September 8, 2026
pixel up close, smooth far away
The two-register rule behind the site's look: crisp pixel art for anything you look at directly, smooth traced silhouettes for anything meant to sit back as atmosphere.
Field notes from the homelab.
Learning to build and self-host things in my spare time, from Lovund, an island off the Helgeland coast.
September 2026
September 8, 2026
Moving the blog to a VPS
How the blog moved from a local Compose stack to a production VPS
September 8, 2026
taming the post list
Three languages turned 34 posts into 102 admin rows, so the admin got a language switcher of its own
September 7, 2026
the favicon that would not die
A redrawn favicon that refused to update in the tab, why it was never the container, and the query-string trick that finally forced it.
September 7, 2026
the blog speaks three languages now
Norwegian, English and Spanish, every post in all three, and what broke on the way
September 7, 2026
the plan v1 never had
A look back at what v1 was supposed to be, which turns out to be nothing, because I never wrote it down
September 6, 2026
why this blog is set in a serif
Why the whole site, headings and body both, runs in Literata instead of a sans-serif UI face, and the reading-measure math most blog templates skip.
September 6, 2026
making admin feel like the same place
September 6, 2026
giving the words something to sit on
September 6, 2026
the whole redesign, in one post
Stepping back over everything that changed: the green palette, the pixel mountain, sidebar nav, the birds, the night sky, and why light mode was the hard part.