Hej! 👋
I'm Linus.
I make things.
I use code 💻️, LEGO 🧱, words ✏️, pictures 📷️, wood 🌲, and empathy 🥰 to create stuff. Let's make the world a bit more interesting.
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pictures
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wood
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empathy
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Some projects I've made 💪
You're a dad
I'm making my first computer game. It's a silly text based adventure built around my experience of becoming a dad for the first time. Released when it's done™️.
Command Line Fu
I recreated an app I first made in 2011. There is such a thing as digital nostalgia. Become a command line ninja with Command Line Fu!
Kontroversiellt
Kontroversiellt is the party game that makes sure you've got something to talk about. If you're a Swedish speaker you'll find more than 100 statements that will challenge and provoke conversations. Available for both iOS and Android!
The Crescent
This ship started as an exploration of the Duplo Railroad tracks and grew from there. Really happy with how it turned out.
Worker Bee
In 2124, when humanity had finally resolved all conflicts on earth and started gazing outwards, they needed a cheap and efficient craft to manipulate debris in space. The Worker Bee was the solution: cheap to build, cheap to maintain, but incredibly reliable. As its inventor Trevor McGregor always said: "It ain't designed to win no fancy awards, just git the job done."
Öl-VM
The Beer World Championship is an (almost) annual event where a bunch of lovely drunkards get together and blind taste beer. Established in 2011.
Cats
When building this site I just randomly started adding cats. People found them, commented, so I added more. Now there's a leaderboard.
Pallet side table
Robot Unicorn
Trophy
Ceiling lamp
Canoe Spaceship
Mars Flytrap
Studio 2.0
After the first studio was shut down, me and a few friends built a new one. My involvment only lasted for a year, but it was good fun with lessons learned.
040
I joined the web agency 040 as partner in 2012. It was a transformative experience. I got more confident coding, learned what it took to run a business, and found a home for our small team by merging it with another company.
Oglaf
Robot bust
Brick Insights
A review aggregator for LEGO sets late 2017. I needed help knowing what sets to buy. It snowballed into a fairly complex system aggregating a lot of information. But the workload didn't scale. It ate up more and more of my time and money, and after essentially being dormant for two years - resulting in a deteriorating system - I decided to decommission the project in early 2023. It was not an easy decision to shut down one of my all time favourite projects, but enabled me to move on to newer things.
Studio 1.0
Me and my brother built and maintained a creative studio between 2016-2018. A fantastic time, a fantastic space.
Hopper
Recreating childhood photos
For Christmas 2015 me and the siblings got together to recreate childhood photos as adults. It became an appreciated Christmas gift by our parents.
Wordpress Logo
Vroomfast
Linus learns to draw
Hell bent on developing some form of illustration skill, I drew and published a lot of crappy doodles.
Fake stories about real people
To practice storytelling I took portraits and wrote fake stories about them. One of my favourite projects.
Reflections on losing 215 000 SEK when you're 27
After a relationship crumbled and a house was sold at a loss, I had to rebuild. This short summary had a surprising amount of reactions when I first wrote it.
Legible CSS
An early experiment with typographic scaling on the web.
Swooshable
Swooshable contains various online LEGO experiments focusing on making people better LEGO builders. There are few moving parts in the system, so it can stay running with fairly little maintenance.
8-bit wedding
I created an 8-bit themed site to hand over photos for an 8-bit themed wedding.
My uncle Hans
Losing a family member isn't easy. I wrote my reflections after a particular situation.
Tråkiga frågor ger tråkiga svar
My first book! 12 boring questions with 12 better alternatives to stimulate better conversation.
Toaster Run
A sequel to the highly successful "Toaster walk", Toaster run is a play with a touch more drama.
Toaster Walk
A dramatic epic about a man on a walk with his toaster.
Works in progress and other small things 🤔
2024-07-24
Livened up our kitchen wall with some impromptu shelves. They're made of drawers donated by @kickibo, @bohman01, @adamgerthel and the inlaws in Germany. We want to put a panel underneath for that rustic kitchenette look, but we'll see when we get to it.
2024-06-28
Last little flower for now, I think.
2024-06-27
Sunny flower. I really enjoy making these flowers! Quick, fun builds.
2024-06-26
Butterflywer
What am I doing with my life? 🫣
My main personal focus right now is finishing up my first computer game. It's called You're a dad, and is a sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a father.
To get a glimpse into what I'm up to right now you should check out my Now page and my Life todo list. If you've seen a cat on this site and want to know what that's all about, there's a page for that too. It's the Cats page.
In my day job I'm an engineering manager at IKEA, working on IKEA.com. That job, my projects, my family and life keeps me busy. This means I no longer do custom web work for clients unless it's really, really interesting. Please keep that in mind before reaching out.
Get in touch 🤙
I use Flickr for most of my serious imagery. Instagram is for quick build updates. Sometimes I make videos and publish them on YouTube.
Github is where I store some of my code, and LinkedIn is for all you business types. I'm trying to get into the habit of using Mastodon and Bluesky, but it's not going great.
There's some old stuff floating around. I've still got accounts on Facebook and Twitter, but never use them. There's also good old fashioned e-mail. I still use that.
Said about Linus 🤐
Linus has always been autistic. Wait, I mean artistic!
Definitely marriage material.
Are you really handing in an artwork called Polar bear in snowstorm? You're pushing it now, Linus.
My dad is the best.
He was the first of four kids. You're never right the first time, but at least we learnt a lot.
Who are you? Get out of my house!