About

Hello there, I’m a Swede living in Stockholm where I work as a software developer with MedTech. He/Him. Born 1979. Find me on Mastodon @tom10 and these platforms:

Coding’s been a big part of my life ever since I got my hands on the IBM XT 286. It had a whopping 640 KB of RAM, how about that? The first bit of coding I did was to put together a menu system to help my dad find and start his chess programs. I wrote it in either BASIC or Turbo Pascal, can’t remember.

In high school I got to use Visual Basic and built a calculator and a Celcius/Fahrenheit converter. Everyone has to build one, right?

In my daily work today I mostly use Dyalog APL, with the occasional sprinkle of .NET and PowerShell.

When I’m not working I like to try out new languages and dev-tools, though I tend to focus on SvelteKit, TailwindCSS and PostgreSQL.

Languages

  • Dyalog APL
  • JavaScript
  • Clojure and ClojureScript
  • Bash
  • Emacs Lsip
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Scheme
  • Pascal / Delphi

Also Swedish, English and a tiny bit of German.

Board games

  • Arkham Horror: The Card Game
  • Nemesis
  • Eldritch Horror
  • Eldritch Sign
  • Talisman
  • Blood Bowl
  • Chess

Video games

  • Street Fighter II
  • Myst
  • Baldur’s Gate II
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Skyrim
  • Fallout 2 + 4
  • Portal 2
  • The Last of Us. I enjoyed the first one immensely but did not care for part two.
  • Stardew Valley

I also enjoy watching and listening to other people playing video games, especially while I’m coding. For example The Long Dark, Rimworld, Oxygen not Included, Until Dawn, and many more.

Reading material

  • The Order of the Stick, by Rich Burlew. I’ve been reading this web comic since 2008, and have also bought several physical books.
  • The Pragmatic Programmer, by A. Hunt, D. Thomas.
  • The Lurking Fear, by HP Lovecraft.
  • How to Solve it, by G. Polya.
  • Mastering Emacs, by Mickey Petersen.

Podcasts

  • Security Now
  • Critical Role
  • This Week in Tech
  • Video Game History Hour
  • Sweden Rolls
  • The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast