happyponyland.net

Hi!

I'm Ulf Åström and this is my personal homepage. I don't advertise this place much, so since you're here you probably already know who I am and what you're looking for. The purpose of this homepage is to document the things I do. This is my digital drawer that you may peruse as you wish.

I sometimes neglect maintaining this page. If you find something that's horribly out of date, let me know.

Current activities

• I'm developing a camouflage pattern generator.
• I'm developing my own roguelike called The Slimy Lichmummy (TSL for short).
• In 2011, we had an International Roguelike Developers Conference in Visby, Sweden.
• My user page at the geohashing community wiki. Geohashing is an Internet game/GPS sport where we visit random coordinates.

Software

• The Slimy Lichmummy, my roguelike
• A script that generates random goth metal lyrics (source)
• Comet Hunter, a small DOS game I wrote last century
• Brutus is a HTTP server (but only implements a subset of the protocol) written in Java (J2SE 1.4.2) as a school assignment. No real documentation is provided, good luck getting it to work.

Music

• Music I've made
• My ukulele chord finder (source)

Photography

• A wasp
• On my way to Trollsjön (aka Rissajaure). I left early and arrived just as the morning fog was lifting
• Me posing as some kind of "The Chef" character. Photo by Thomas. Just one of our many band photoshoots gone wrong...
• A cold morning in Ronneby
• The plant, shot in my old room in my parents house
• A metal texture, should tile seamlessly (try it here - graphical browser recommended)
• Some roots - I kind of like the grainy look in this picture, suitable for an indie album cover

Other

• My first computer, a 8088 "laptop" - the Bondwell Model 8 Turbo!
• A scanned manual for the SANSUI WS-X1 6-track recorder
• The Swedish Toilet Exploration Association!
• The #NetBSD.se gallery that I (used to) maintain
• manwithchainsaw, a brief attempt at a comic
• DATAJESUS, another comic (in swedish): 001 002 003 004
• Some AutoCAD experiments I did during my time as an intern, while I was still learning the software. A roll of adhesive tape, a basket and something abstract, yet insanely huge
• Ninja at night
• Prison - my winning entry in the mini-gfx-compo/duel between me and Shozan (drawn in one hour)
• What's going on in Happy Pony Land today? A fragmentary story of commuting to work, interpreted by oddmunds from #rgrd. Part 1 | Part 2
• Refresh rates for the LG 775FT monitor
• My page of links to other places of interest

Professional

I used to work at a major technical consulting company with construction and documentation of industrial electrical systems (which basically means I did a lot of CAD). It sounds a lot more serious than it really is.

Personal

• How to contact me