Henry Catalini Smith |

Codeberg was all over the tech news for a week or two this summer, after members voted to amend the terms of service to prohibit projects that mostly consist of code written by “generative AI”-tools.

If you go and look at TEAMS.md#accessibility in Forgejo’s governance repo today you’ll find my name there in the list.

Meta descriptions containing Windows-style \r\n newlines are broken in Next.js.

Tech choices for personal websites can feel very personal.

A pull request of mine recently needed to be reverted due to a visual bug in order to unblock the release of Forgejo version 15.

As I write this, a spaceship full of astronauts is flying around the moon for the first time in my life.

After getting my JAWS setup in place recently, NVDA was next on the agenda.

Web accessibility is mostly about HTML, I reckon.

A tricky-looking screen reader bug in Forgejo inspired me to spin up a JAWS testing environment on my Mac.

After getting my first Forgejo PR merged today I was struck by the realisation that I finally have a linkable public example of a type of accessibility bugfix that’s been a recurring thing for years across basically every site and app I’ve ever worked on.

A mailwoman in the US was receiving orthopedic treatment for issues relating to the physical demands of her job.

I first discovered Half Man Half Biscuit while living in Bristol and working on the music search UI at MixRadio.

Since getting my Forgejo dev environment running I’ve begun poking around the issue backlog and learning my way around the code, looking for the stepping stones to becoming a contributor.

We picked up this gorgeous Philips D8569 boombox from 1982 at a second-hand place recently.

Been wanting to get started making code contributions to Codeberg for the longest time.

Found myself in Backagården once again this weekend, building software for the international left.

Although thoroughly cleaning our new NES the other day was enough to get it booting Super Mario Bros, it wasn’t reliable enough.

After building lazyrename a couple of months ago I got curious about small ways of improving Helix’s built-in file moving functionality.

Spotting a dirt cheap CRT television in a second hand shop in Trelleborg last weekend set in motion a chain of events that led to a Nintendo and a copy of Super Mario Bros arriving in the mail.

About six years ago I became a Swedish citizen.

My Nokia 2660 is being forcibly disconnected next week due to the shutdown of the 2G and 3G mobile networks in Sweden.

Found myself writing C# in Helix on macOS a bit lately.

The violent repression of the population of Minneapolis has been horrifying.

Been working on this one PICO-8 game on and off for like five years now.

This year I’ll have been living in Sweden for ten years.

Pushed my first AI tool config to my dotfiles repo this week.

Lately every time I read about AI it’s in the context of efficiency.

In late November I got an email from Comviq warning me that my beloved Nokia 2660 will be blocked from their network in early 2026 due to the shutdown of their 2G and 3G networks.

Had a real bastard of a headache the other day in Hemköp.

One of the little things that inspired me to learn some Rust was the realisation that suddenly all the tools I’m using every day are built with it.

Earlier today I finally expelled a happy rant about Helix and Zellij that’s been building up inside of me for weeks.

For starters Helix is a masterpiece.

In recent weeks I’ve accidentally migrated from Neovim to Helix.

Back down to earth with a bump today after an amazing weekend attending the Coders & Organizers meetup here in Malmö.

Over the last couple of months Zellij has become one of my favourite everyday tools.

Rasmus Fleischer made an interesting appeal earlier today.

I’m so fucking bored of companies.

It’s been about five months now since I stopped carrying a smartphone.

The Accumulation of Capital is a book from 1913 by Rosa Luxemburg which predicts the collapse of the AI bubble.

When I was little my grandad used to read me this book called The Tinder Box.

18 months ago I was all-in on VSCode. lol Once upon a time, the main tools I used for work were Vim and tmux.

Everyone was up in arms in August about GitHub’s new status as a department of Microsoft instead of a subsidiary of Microsoft.

Got a Nokia 2660 for my birthday a few months back.

I keep hearing about these AI startups where people are doing 72 hour weeks.

Been a lot of buzz about getting off Spotify due to the military industrial profiteering.

Nobody cares about privacy policies.

This blog post called Next.js 15.1+ is unusable outside of Vercel has been doing the rounds this past week.

The old MacBook Air I’d been running k8s on had become a bit problematic.

A few weeks ago the Swedish government announced a new AI initiative called the Swedish AI Reform.

Every summer in Malmö a family of swans nests on the canal.