Eurovision Tourists Go Home
How one of Sweden's favourite annual events became unwelcome in one of its own cities.
I'm Henry, a software engineer based in Malmö, Sweden. I'm a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility, a union organiser, and I'm still not planning any nuclear attacks.
How one of Sweden's favourite annual events became unwelcome in one of its own cities.
On paying tax and taking responsibility for the society around us.
It's coming up on the tenth anniversary of the release of my infamous global thermonuclear war game. It's been offline for longer than it was ever online now. I want to get the story of this thing and its general context in my life & career written down and posted in time for the ten year milestone, so here it is.
Reducing end-to-end test flakiness in a real-world open source app.
Stuff like this is why I still think there’s some magic left in tech.
This is why the simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.