Figuring out how to reshape my life
About
100% Freelancer since late 2011. These days I'm 75% Developer and 25% Designer.
I write on my personal blog which I started back in 2017 and I don't plan to stop anytime soon. I write mostly about tech, web, minimalism and the intersection of the three but I also rant a lot on random topics.
I have an even stranger newsletter that is both weather and location dependant and is very, very infrequent and irregular.
I'm in charge of making sure minimalissimo.com runs smoothly and I also curate mnmll.ist and theforest.link
Projects
A collection of quirky personal websites delivered one by one at random at the push of a button.
Design: Carl Barenbrug and Myself
Tech: Kirby 3 (Flat File CMS)
Design: Carl Barenbrug and Myself
Tech: Kirby 3 (Flat File CMS)
Design: Carl Barenbrug and Myself
Tech: Kirby 3 (Flat File CMS) + Shopify Lite
Side Projects
I got involved with Minimalissimo a couple of years ago to help with a redesign and over time I got more and more involved with its operations to the point where now I'm involved with almost everything site related: from design decisions, to content strategy, to sysadmin to searching the web for content to feature. Only thing I'm not doing is writing content… yet.
My experimental newsletter. I write it on my phone and send it while physically on the top of a mountain. It's usually the same mountain but occasionally it's a different one. As a result of that it's a location—and weather—dependant newsletter.
Weird, quirky and potentially interesting links collected in a container that is designed to bring back some of the randomness and fun of the early days of the web.
Writing
Some of my words found their way into the second volume of Inside Minimalism.
I can't be the only person that's fucking pissed at the entire licensing world for web fonts
My occasional thoughts on minimalism and its relationship with living a simple life
Writing about the personal web is one of my passions.
My take on a new way to look at the web as a place for quietness
This post keeps coming up time and time again. People love minimal email clients apparently.
Features
Over the past 10 years I had the privilege to see a couple of the one pagers I designed and coded being featured on One Page Love
Over the years I had the pleasure to have a few of the sites I worked on featured on the lovely Siteinspire
For some inexplicable reason sometimes my posts gain random traction and can end up in places like the Hacker News front page
Even though I wrote just a few posts on the subject my site has apparently been included as a relevant link for people interested in digital minimalism
This is the only other time something I made managed to gain traction on Product Hunt. Why? No idea. Everything is random on the internet.
We all know Product Hunt is weird and nothing make sense on that platform. Even weirder is the fact that a site I made in an afternoon managed to be the 3rd most upvoted product of the week. The site has since been redesigned and then sold.
Work Experience
I'm in charge of everything code related for both minimalissimo.com and minimalissimo.shop
I'm also partly responsible for some of the design decisions behind the old, the current as well as future versions of both sites.
For the past 10 years I designed, co-designed and coded websites of all sorts of shapes and forms for design studios, other freelancers as well as a variety of different clients.
Education
One year, full-time course with focus on graphic design, typography, logo design, web coding and web design
High School diploma with focus on design and blacksmithing