What am I doing now?

Time-stamp: <2025-07-03 01:39:32 CEST>

I live in the south of Sweden since 2004.

Spending most of my time in a flat in central Malmö. Back to working from home again since December 2022.

We moved to a much smaller flat in a house from the 1920s last autumn. It's still chaos, but that's OK. ~7,000 books and much less space can do that to your flat. The new flat is very nice, though. Quieter, very thick walls, better Internet, and a backyard filled with... bamboo!

Weekends and sometimes for weeks at a time I'm in my holiday home, a cottage in the woods, ~60 km from Malmö. Strangely, the cottage for a long time had better Internet connectivity than my flat! FTTC, Fiber to the cottage! No more, though, since I now have symmetric 1 gigabit/second at home.

I share these dwellings with my wife Petra and our kid, often mentioned as #3 in my gemlog. My two grown kids Ludvig (#1) and Gabriel (#2) have moved out.

I've been into longsword fencing in the German tradition (training with MHFS) for more than six years and was slowly getting better at it. Being 50+ doesn't help. Neurospiciness doesn't help. But it's been fun anyway. The last terms I haven't been able to go at all, mostly for psychological reasons.

I still practise cuts on the lawn in our cottage, but sadly our new flat hasn't as high ceilings as the last, so I can't pracise at home anymore.

Reading a lot of fiction, mostly SF&F.

In late 2022 the small research team I was a part of at Mullvad VPN split into different companies. One of them is my current employer, Tillitis AB, which designs and sells security hardware. The main office is in Gothenburg but I mostly work from home or co-working spaces in Malmö.

Trying to work a ~30-32 hour week since 2008, mostly to get more time with my family, my books, my swords, my bikes, and to keep my wits about me.

I continue to practise zazen, the zen buddhist form of sitting meditation which I started doing in my teens.

You can find me in the Fediverse at @mc@masto.hackers.town. I have been known for taking social media breaks from time to time. Please note that toots are deleted automatically after just two weeks so if I'm on one of my breaks my timeline may be empty.

My writings often end up in my gemlog:

or my blog:

Most of the local groups I was a part of are dormant: Malmö Open Source Interest Groug (MOSIG), the hackerspace Forskningsavd (web-site down and the space closed), #merakrypto, et cetera. Our weekly hacker's lunch is still alive and probably celebrating 20 years of Wednesdays together this year!