years in review
2022
- read 32 books
- visited 19 cities
- 17 personal projects
- released cerca, units, tooty
- baked 1/12 of all days
- lactofermented: ginger beer, currykraut, cucumber kimchi, alongside a few false starts
- presented at dweb camp 2022
- visited brighton, wales, hawai'i, sf—all for the first time
- camped. first in the mud of wales, and later under redwoods
- experienced a heatwave during the summer, and spent the days reading in a hammock in a park
- visited hamburg, trento and venice by train as part of going to the first eu merveilles meetup
- the year i finally left gmail, for migadu
- walked across the golden gate bridge. it's long, noisy, slightly scary
- foraged parasol mushrooms for the first time (how i have looked!)
- saw a hummingbird while sitting with a friend on his porch
- wrote 2 grants for cabal, leading to our first moderately big grant acceptance (!)
- spent a lot of time, effort and thought laying foundations for as-yet unreleased projects
- started getting into boardgames
- increased my practical knowledge of cryptographic operations via libsodium
- learned how to pilot a motor boat, nautical knots, and how to sail—sailed 40h
- wrote
- sail again
- read books already in my library
- learn enough italian to navigate a grocer, invite people for dinner, and amicably chat over wine
- lactoferment continually in the colder months
- eat more mushrooms, of various kinds, more often
- start and maintain an exercise routine
2021
- cooking level up
- sourdough baking level up
- foraged mushrooms in the wild
- lacto-fermented food for the first time
- worked on ssb with friends
- traveled around sweden
- continued work on my projects, with open source as my main occupation
- visited svendborg, denmark
- got double vaccinated for covid-19
- raised money for cabal
- launched a cabal-in-the-browser proof of concept
- deployed private messages functionality for cabal
- started a forum software
- share more meals with friends, family & strangers
- read more outside of bedtime
- write more
- learn more about pottery
- take sailing lessons
- explore lacto-fermentation
- up my sauce and marinade game
- journal during trips and adventures
2020
- started journaling
- traveled in an overnight train to finland
- traveled to basel to present at a p2p conf
- spoke at our networks (trustnet)
- learned sourdough baking
- sewed 5 projects
- participated in the merveilles hypercard jam
- worked on design skills
- finished my master's thesis and released trustnet
- improved git knowledge
- started learning common lisp (via land of lisp)
- worked on ssb software (oasis) with my friend cryptix
- resumed golang knowledge & programming
- started a company: aeae (design, software, consulting)
- started writing the secure scuttlebutt newsletter
- wrote and received a grant from mozilla for developing cabal
- finally managed to graduate :')
2019
- traveled to japan, met up with merveilles & played my music live
- gave my first conference talk (data terra nemo, berlin)
- started a hackerspace with friends
- started cultivating a plot of land with friends
- started my thesis on subjective moderation systems
- quit my job to work on p2p & personal projects
- traveled in a van to 36c3 with friends
2018
- made a music track once a week for the entire year
- made music in a café in berlin
- went to peer to peer web berlin #1
- started cabal
- started datradio
- went to norberg festival
- went to the chaos communication congress for the first time (35th edition)
- met up with scuttlebutts
- started tracking my expenses
- finished all my math exams
- got my own apartment
- concepted, planned and co-hosted a conference
- got to know a bunch of really cool and supportive people
- started working a full-time programming job
- released a game on steam
- learn more
graduate- increase p2p expertise
- master one track every month
- write graceful code
2017
- 76 books
- 16 concerts
- 57 playlists
- 4518 entries over 615 days
- solved one sudoku for each day of 2017
- worked on 3 for-hire game projects (of which 2 were vr)
- the year the p2p web woke up (for real)
- traveled to italy
- made stuff with, for and using dat
- turned 25
- worked on a lot of projects (of course)
- i started climbing regularly (and then stopped (but then started again))
- moved again
- started a music letter
- started learning french
- started making music (after many years of wanting to)
- started learning 3d modelling
- started learning about sailing life
- showed a game at nordisk panorama, a movie festival
- showed a vr game in an art gallery
- i guess a lot of 2017 was down-in-the-trenches working and laying of foundations
finish school- create 1 track each week
read at least one longer french book- figure out a sustainable economic plan
2016
- 39 books
- 6 concerts
- 994 entries over 183 days
- exhibited in an art gallery
- was on swedish national radio
- learned go & docker
- ate a lot of good food
- learned about bikes, got a new bike & biked a lot
- discovered wet shaving
- went climbing for the first time
- worked on a lot of projects (open source, for-hire, personal, alone & collaboratively)
- completed a lot of projects, of which 14 were personal projects
- traveled to spain
- bought a lot of tea (A LOT OF TEA)
- got a smartphone (what)
- made a backup system & backed up a lot of stuff
- got to know a lot of cool people
- moved
- improved my life situation, discarded some junk
- the year vr finally arrived (again, sup 90s)
- got employed working with vr
- started coworking with a bunch of cool people
- discovered chinese cuisine
- built tools for myself
- started taking more pictures
- build a fully decentralized app on top of ipfs or similar
- release stuff that helps or brings joy to people
- ? establish a personal philosophy
release an album- 1 sudoku a day
graduate