Kid wants a balance bike. No wait. Dad wants kid to want a balance bike. So I'm - I mean - she's getting one.

Since I wrote about Berm Peak, its creator Seth Alvo has moved the subscription from Patreon to Substack and I followed over there. YouTube is great in many ways, but you get what the algorithm serves you - creators that displease the algorithm tend to see their income disappear and with that they tend to decide to spend their efforts elsewhere. Helping one of my favorite YouTube creators break free for $7/month was a no-brainer.

The Substack chat started with an invitation to post a picture of your bike, so I uploaded a photo of my now 19 year old bike. A little bit later Seth released a video about How the Bike Industry Takes Bike Photos, noting that just about all photos that they had received were way off-spec - wonderfully off-spec. And wouldn't you know, I was featured not just once (which was enough to celebrate), but twice!

Många har satt champagnen på kylning, men plocka inte fram den ännu. Det Sverige som går med i NATO är annorlunda än det Sverige som stod utanför NATO under det kalla kriget, men det NATO vi går med i är också annorlunda.

Using a gamma transformation followed by linear transforms in YUV color space to convert images for dark mode.

Just like the previous restaurant review, this was a great place that now doesn't exist.

Spring is almost here, and with that, some freeze-thaw cycles that result in nice but small ice formations.

Paper flowers made for the NK department store by Danish artist Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen.

A quick, easy to make, and tasty sauce.

A lot of snow in not a lot of time.

Wisdome Stockholm is a fantastic immersive experience. It was with curiosity mixed with skepticism that I bought a ticket to Vast 3D, expecting the cross-eye inducing 3D I experienced of a decade ago. Was I wrong? Absolutely. The 3D worked. The immersive 360 worked.

Techies are just as prone to nostalgia as anyone else. In particular, they tend to be nostalgic for the time when the Internet was the domain of techies, when it was our little bubble.

A pair of christmas trees on the little square near the library.

The yearly Christmas Tree-flight by the Swedish Air Force passing over the royal palace. A yearly tradition, but this is the last time they'll use the SK60 (Saab 105) trainer, as that aircraft model is being phased out and replaced with the SK40 (GROB G120TP).

A great Christmas tradition where the soloists stood out.

I wouldn't be where or who I am without David Drake. I think he's the single author that has had an actual measurable impact on the trajectory of my life and the person I eventually turned into.