Kai Gulliksen Blog

It’s been almost a week since I got my new iPhone 17 Pro Max, and I figured I’d write a short little update about my experience with the new phone.

Yup, I ended up getting an orange iPhone 17 Pro Max.

When updating my phone to iOS 26 I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

As I’m writing this iOS 26 is about an hour or so away from launching in my area, and as I always do with major OS releases I plan on hitting that update button as soon as it’s available.

Fucking finally, right?

So, if you somehow missed it, the new iPhone 17 line was just announced last night to all the usual Apple fanfare.

The last month was quite a busy one for me.

Jupiter Hell Classic was released in early access on Steam not too long ago and I’ve been playing the hell out it for the last few days.

Very much unlike my previous attempt at creating my own roguelike I have not (yet) abandoned the task this time around.

I’ve been spending my free time these last few weeks learning Godot and trying to wrap my non-programmer brain around the ins and outs of GDscript.

A few days ago I finally got around to watching the recent four-part Dwarf Fortress documentary from Noclip, and it reminded me how much I absolutely adore that game and how much I miss playing it.

August has arrived on the calendar and as always it feels like the summer is flying by way too fast.

Just over a year ago, I wrote about how I was starting to learn the game engine Godot and that I was wanting to try my hand at creating a few small games.

And now for something completely different.

Get the full 4K resolution artwork from my Ko-Fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/kaigulliksen/shop

From Robert Birming on his blog: I want to get better at not waiting unnecessarily long before showing off my ideas and creations.

A couple of weeks ago I got an email notifying me that I’d been invited to the Raycast for Windows beta.

From Louie Mantia: "The web is so cool.

Summer is here and so is another fresh batch of links from yours truly.

As I’m writing this I’m on my way to my penultimate day of work before my usual three week summer vacation starts.

Good Sunday morning, everyone!

New month, new links.

I have been without a proper home office set-up for about six months at this point.

Tried something a little different with this one, straying a bit more into the realm of fantasy art than what I’ve previously done.

I don’t normally jump on early access software features but the preview that the Obsidian team posted of the up-coming Bases feature was much to compelling for me to resist.

I’m still working on rebuilding my creative momentum.

A few days ago the Obsidian team announced the upcoming Bases feature over on Reddit.

The last month has been incredibly busy for me.

April was quite a busy month for me, with a lot of my time being spent getting the new house ready for us to move in to.

Today is moving day!

I love reading about people doing or creating things that I could never think of, much less actually manage to accomplish myself.

I’m currently enjoying my Easter vacation.

It’s been a little while since the last time I posted a home screen update.

I consider myself a very patient person.

Had to get my mind off of all the home renovation work that is currently occupying the entirety of my brain.

While I’m up to my neck in doing renovations on our new house, doing everything we can to get it ready before we’re moving in - oh my god, it’s so close and we have so much more to do, aaah!!!

Is Anyone Else Tired of the Internet?

I know I mentioned just a few days ago that my art-output would be a little limited for a while due to dealing with renovations of our new house.

Ever since we got the keys to our new house about two weeks ago things have been, predictably, quite busy.

Lately I’ve been spending less time endlessly scrolling my various social media feeds.

Recently I’ve been wanting to get back into making some music.

Brent Patterson over on Mastodon recently posted a link to Displacement X.

Cyberdeck Handheld A really, really well done DIY cyberdeck.

Today I had a day off work and I’ve been feeling pretty good lately.

This blog post by Robert Birming[1] popped up my RSS feed the other day and it very much resonated with me.

Well, technically we bought a house about a month ago and I just haven’t gotten around to writing about it until now.

A new quick piece I worked on this weekend.

Another month, another dump of links I’ve collected since the last post.

I’m finally starting to feel better again after being sick for two weeks, and so for the last few days I’ve been working on this image that I just finished.