Kristians Home Page

Hi, I'm Kristian, and this is my wonderful home page. Can you belive it, I made this all by my self!?

I'm a software developer, mostly infrastructure stuff, and I do computer stuff and I honestly believe the web was a more fun place at the turn of the millennium than it is now. Well... at least less mass produced and commercialized. But maybe I'm just nostalgic for a past that never was?

I work at some company. I tried keeping that up to date, but I just realized that it's said the wrong place of work on this site for over two years, so just assume I'm still employed SOMEWHERE and if it matters that much to you, then I guess this place isn't for you.

Some stuff I've made

• nesquik.nu - A quite old story about the first domain I ever purchased and how that all played out.
• friday.horse - ethically sourced horses as a service every friday.
• txt.friday.horse - The same, but for those of you who are not blessed with a graphical computer terminal, and rely on text only.You can get a feel for how it looks on friday by cheating. (fun fact, txt.friday.horse might be the worlds only HTTP application server written entirely in GNU Awk).
• love.kly.no (Norwegian) - A "love tester" I wrote for my nieces in an evening, which I liked so much that I kept it. The reason was this conversation: "Niece: So you can make progams and games? Me: Well theoretically, I suppose! Niece: So... can you make fortnite? Me: Ehm, that's a bit much... Niece, thinking: How about a love calculator?
• My (not very updated) blog. I might get back into blogging quite suddenly. Or not. WHO KNOWS?

Stuff I don't host, but which might be worth a clicky anyway

• My norwegian fediverse account
• My english fediverse account(less active, but still active)
• tg.no - The Gathering - A computer party I've volunteered for for a decade and a half, mostly doing network stuff and some admin-adjacent stuff. Though the list of what I've done over the years is rather extensive. But I figure I don't want all of that in writing.

Some random stuff about me

• I am deeply sceptical of any product or technology where the letter Z has an unnaturally strong emphasis. No, I don't know why, but I'm sticking with it. It has served me well.
• I created my first home page in the nineties. It was beautiful. It had an animated green wire-frame skull and everything.
• I love being physically active. That has led me on tons of hiking trips locally, bike races, runs, and recently, weightlifting and underwater rugby and free diving.
• I enjoy volunteer work! I've volunteered at perhaps 50 computer parties throughout my life, doing everything from cleaning up puke and unclogging toilets to network design, contract negotiations and board work. Recently, I expanded my horizon and volunteered at Oslo Pride for the first time.
• I strongly believe capitalism is the root of almost all of our modern problems.
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privacy policy: I can write litterally anything here because the people who actually needs to read this never do, but the people who DO read this will probably notice already that there are no cookies, no javascript even, and while your IP may end up in access log, there's a good chance that the disk ran full because I barely maintain that server beyond automatic patching and the web server is just barely alive, so who the hell knows what I'm tracking, huh? At some point about a decade and a half ago I had some disqus comment field in my blog, but that's been gone for so long I'm not even sure why I mention it. Anyway, if you're still reading this, you seem like a nice person and you should introduce yourself, but then again, maybe I'm just a bad judge of character? Life is full of mysteries.