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2024-06-28 00:42:04

For Midsommar this year, me, my girlfriend Rebecka and four of our friends stayed at the STF Grövelsjön mountain station. One of those friends, Wilda, was there to start her Green Ribbon – the same hiking adventure I went on last summer. Rebecka and another member of the gang joined Wilda for the first section […]

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2024-05-13 01:01:20

If you want to make a designer cry, tell him or her to redesign their website. I’ve made three attempts since I did my last redesign two years ago, and every time, I’ve procrastinated by releasing another free WordPress theme instead. I find that designing for others is a lot easier than designing for myself. […]

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2024-05-07 21:39:14

I have a new free WordPress theme out today! It’s called Pulitzer, and it’s a minimal blog theme designed for writers. You can download it from WordPress.org, read more about its features here, or check out the demo. If you follow me on Twitter, there’s a chance you’ve seen Pulitzer already. I usually don’t write […]

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2024-02-23 03:12:11

Since me and Rebecka moved to the Swedish mountains in September, we’ve been lucky to see the northern lights dancing on the night sky a couple of times. It’s a marvelous spectacle. Even though the camera software in iOS is pretty aggressive about exaggerating the intensity of the green rays and spirals, the photographs can’t […]

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2023-11-29 19:05:55

Day 47Aug 3 (25 km) Finally! After a month and a half apart, me and Rebecka were reunited at the train station by Abisko Turiststation. I’m very excited that we’re going to finish this hike together, but first, we’re doing a little side quest. This is Rebecka’s first time in Abisko, so we’re doing a […]

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2023-11-29 19:04:34

Day 30July 17 (32.6 km) After breakfast buffet at Hemavans Fjällstation, I headed up to the gate that marks the southern point of the 450 km King’s Trail. On the way, I stopped by the visitor center for the Vindelfjällen nature reserve to weigh my backpack. The needle landed on 14.3 kg. About half of […]

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2023-11-29 19:03:17

Day 19July 6 (34.8 km) Around nine, I left Gäddede to start the third section of my hike: the 242 kilometers from Gäddede to Hemavan. It was 20 degrees out and barely a cloud in the sky. By the time I had done the 450 meters of elevation to Lillfjällets break cabin, cheered on by […]

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2023-11-29 19:02:23

Day 6June 23 (33.7 km) It was wet, cold and windy on the climb up to the 1190 meter mountain pass you reach before going back down to the Swedish Tourist Association (STF) mountain station Sylarna. It was the first time on my Green Ribbon that I had to put on three layers. Not counting […]

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2023-11-29 19:00:37

On August 11 this year, me and my girlfriend Rebecka walked out on a metal pier by lake Golddajávri, in the far northwestern corner of Sweden and 300 kilometers north of the Arctic circle. At the end of that pier is the bright yellow Three-Country Cairn (Treriksröset), which stands at the point where the borders […]

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2023-11-06 23:15:18

I survived (and completed) both my summer adventure and mine and Rebecka’s move to the mountains, and life has mostly returned to normal. For me, that means releasing free WordPress themes. Hideo is a clean block theme for blogs and portfolios. It’s a controlled collision of subtle colors and bold headings, straight lines and rounded […]

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