Henry Catalini Smith |

This is an archive copy of an interview posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/interview-henry-catalini-smith-iaap-eu-upelf.

Got hold of a link to this open letter just now.

There’s a nationwide boycott of big supermarket chains this week in Sweden and it’s been great fun.

Stopped using Copilot outside of work a few weeks ago.

I was arsehole deep in American domain name services, I recently noticed.

GitHub’s been my most-used digital service for years.

Since October 31st 2023 I’ve been providing a work environment email service called 666a.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/accidentally-sending-too-many-http-requests and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

Over on 666a I provide English translations of Swedish labour laws.

Recently I did this little panel discussion at Unionen HQ about union organising in the Swedish tech industry.

Reflecting on the ten year milestone of using my Ergodox the other day really got me thinking.

It’s been about a decade since I built my Ergodox.

After attending today’s Organizing For Power memorial to mark the passing of lead trainer Jane McAlevey, I decided to put my graduation certificate online as a little personal tribute and share some memories and hard-earned lessons of my own.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/all-laws-now-up-to-date and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/lets-update-the-english-translation-of-the-work-environment-act and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/we-maxed-out-sendgrids-free-tier and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/about-arbetsmiljoverkets-new-webdiarium and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

Eurovision’s a mess this year.

It’s tax declaration season in Sweden, and I found out I owe an additional 15000kr of income tax for 2023.

It’s coming up on the tenth anniversary of the release of my infamous global thermonuclear war game.

Tailbone: Disk 2 is a harder version of the original Tailbone.

I recently did some work addressing the flakiness of some end-to-end playwright tests for Zetkin Foundation.

So apparently 666a is still capable of surprising me.

My dotfiles repo is the oldest one I still have.

Really cool photo from a bit of a depressing Arbetsvärlden interview I did.

Screencasting is my secret weapon as a remote software engineer.

Once upon a time, the main tools I used for work were Vim and tmux.

Zetkin have been doing little interviews with some of the volunteers lately.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/night-work-tech-and-swedish-labour-law and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

My work environment email alerts service – 666a – is a Rails app using SQLite for its production database.

In the final quarter of 2023 I launched my little side project 666a, which is a service providing work environment email notifications for union reps and people like that.

Sam likes the boats in Minecraft.

The first time I read It won’t grow if you don’t delegate, I was at Vänsterpartiet Malmö’s studier för förändring course at Kvarnby folkhögskola.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/incident-report and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

Made this lil remix in iMovie on my phone.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/english-translations-of-swedish-laws and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

This was originally posted at https://666a.se/news/launch-announcement and has been migrated here since for long-term hosting.

A happy photo from a magical day in Visby.

Made this audiogram for a Spotify Workers podcast episode using the Web Audio API.

Photo by Freddy Billqvist.

The shuffle symbol represents radical change and the creation of a new order.

2022 was the year my dream of getting more into accessibility finally came true.

Ever since Darren Gee’s run-in with the hammer weirdo I find myself saying this whenever I come across Hammer Bros in Mario.

Many of us have grown up in fiercely anti-union cultural environments.

In the 2010s, a new Swedish way of organising product development work took the tech industry by storm.

For the past Workers in Sweden today owe their good working conditions to the country’s strong labour movement.

This is a full archive copy of the inaugural post I wrote for the #kollektivavtal Slack channel at Spotify.

The passport system in Sweden collapsed earlier this year when pandemic travel restrictions lifted and half the country tried to renew their passports at once.

Jump On a touchscreen device, press the screen once to jump.

Retrofitted this drum sequencer UI with some accessibility improvements.