September 5, 2026
a real night sky
Making the header's night mode use a background mountain traced from a photo and real constellations.
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 4, 2026
the nav moved to the side
Moving the site nav from a top bar to a sidebar, with small pixel icons per section.
September 3, 2026
birds
Adding puffins and then way more birds than planned to the header scene, plus fish and a tiny runner.
September 2, 2026
a pixel mountain
Drawing Lovundfjellet as pixel art for the header, and the fight to get the shape and the favicon right.
September 1, 2026
the blog is getting a face
The old blog design was too generic, so I started over with green and a Lovund feel.
August 2026
August 30, 2026
SvelteKit is the newest thing on my list
Honest first impressions of SvelteKit, coming from React and a MERN stack background, while building this blog's frontend.
August 23, 2026
The Seven Sisters, and picking just one summit to start with
De syv søstre above Sandnessjøen looks impossible to do in one trip, so I'm planning to start with a single peak.
August 16, 2026
Starting CS50P even though I already write Python
Why I started CS50P this year even though I already write real Python, and what it's actually teaching me that experience alone didn't.
August 9, 2026
Second half marathon, autumn 2025: actually pacing it right
Five months after my first half marathon, a second attempt where I finally ran an even pace instead of blowing up mid-race.
August 2, 2026
Django took me from tutorials to real projects
What building a real CRM, a live chat app, and a restaurant menu site in Django taught me that the tutorials never did.