About me#

I’ve been building things for the web since the late 90s — design, code, the whole thing. Self-taught out of necessity; school and I never got along, so I dropped out of the academic track and devoured every book on typography, graphic design and web development I could find instead. Turns out stubbornness pays off when you point it at something you actually care about.

Got my first gigs at small web agencies, figured out quickly that working for myself was the way to go. I’ve been independent or freelancing for most of my career. My job is basically what I did since I was twelve: tinkering with tech and making things. The Demoscene deserves a shout-out here — it shaped my visual design sense, taught me to work in international teams of designers, coders and musicians, and fed a hunger for creative technology that never really went away.

The current#

Married to a lovely woman, working in a cooperative, more time than at any point before in my life to pursue other things, all in all probably the most happy and relaxed in my life so far. Things are good. Things are - dare I say - great.

About the content on this site#

This site has been around in one form or another since 2000. There have been many iterations and many different approaches used. Unfortunately, most of the historic content was lost to the abyss of the internet with each rebuild, but I recently managed to get at least text content back from the Wayback Machine with some success.

Frankly, I don’t care whether my opinions are wanted, boring, or controversial. I don’t write for an audience. But if the rare thing happens that someone pops by who identifies with a thought I wrote down, well, I guess that’s great then. If you don’t, no problem. It’s just, like, my opinion, man.

The subtle, more realistic reason I’m doing this is purely technical interest, trying out stuff and for the joy of designing not for clients, as so many of us web people do.