Patrik Svensson

A friend of mine calls vibe coding “cuck coding,” since you just sit in a chair and watch, and I think it’s beautiful.

This talk is (obviously) brutally close to home on a number of axis. Change requires us to sit with our discomfort and then do something about it. I want you to watch this.

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

I need to get better at Angular. Since I’m a boomer at heart, does anyone have any book tips for me? I’m happy to try other formats as well, as long as they’re really good.

Hello F# community… I have something for you sharplsp.dev/docs/fsharp-...

Yesterday, me and 13 friends rented a hotel in the middle of nowhere and ran an unconference for the second year in a row. People talked about everything from sourdough to text editor data structures. Here's a picture of me, after three gin and tonics, demonstrating Mew's build system.

I played with Inkscape tonight after getting some inspiration from github.com/SAWARATSUKI/... (I asked an LLM for the katakana, and I have noooo idea if this is correct. Worst case it's something insensitive or vulgar 😄)

I got an awesome PR for the Mew docs by @philco.bsky.social: a playground that’s a cross between “Try .NET” and the Godbolt Compiler Explorer. You write Mew code on the left and see all the transformation steps on the right. You can also run the code in the browser. mew-lang.org/playground/

I was supposed to put down new flooring in my office today, but somehow I ended up turning the snake game I wrote about yesterday into a proper game. Music, sound effects, new fruits, adventure mode, high scores, skins, a weather system, death replays, animations... All written in Mew 😍

I wanted to see if I could build something “real” with Mew, my own programming language, so I wrote a snake game with Sokol (by @flohofwoe.bsky.social) and SDL3. It just graduated from “completely useless” to “fun toy language”. Even the build system is written in Mew. github.com/patriksvenss...

OMG, I’m probably late to the game, but “Creep” by Radiohead is a proper rip-off of the Hollies’ “The Air That I Breathe”...

I miss Twitter.

For all you living in the terminal - need a quick break, some distraction? Why not try [tuisweeper](github.com/EluciusFTW/t...) :P? Wanted to test [SpectreTuff] (github.com/EluciusFTW/S...) in conjunction with Elmish on a fun use-case. Worked like a charm! #fsharp #tui #elmish #dotnet

I wrote this for me; now you can read it too. It’s been in draft for years. I was recently a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast on the topic, that episode landed today, which made me revisit and finally get the post out of drafts: Taking control of your digital legacy www.devlead.se/posts/2026/2...

We released a new version of SpectreCoff today (0.57.7), catching up with Spectre.Console again, including the newest features and api changes. #fsharp #dotnet Here's the changelog: github.com/EluciusFTW/S...

One thing that I wish macOS did better was multi-monitor support. I have two fairly recent Dell monitors on my desk daisy chained via thunderbolt (to mac) and DP (to second monitor). And when I plug in the mac its hit and miss as to whether its going to work or not.

Listening to "Story of an Artist" by M. Ward (originally by the late great Daniel Johnston) on repeat tonight. This song is deeply associated with moving to Stockholm for me.

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

I'm considering submitting a talk about building a compiler for the CLR to a conference in February, but I haven't decided whether I want to add yet another thing to my already busy schedule.

I just discovered that ordering glasses online costs a tenth of what I pay at my closest brick-and-mortar store. I have no other word for opticians than "cartel".

I got error propagation working in Mew yesterday! One thing I love about how the compiler works is that this change didn't require any new concepts, just new lowering mechanisms, which made it pretty quick to implement.

Spent most of my evening on this, but finally got "if let" statements working tonight! github.com/patriksvenss...

So this happened yesterday. For some unknown reason (I attribute it to some kind of clerical error), I was awarded "Developer of the Year" at the Developers Day gala here in Stockholm. It was a super fun evening.

The first real Mew program was written tonight: a simple arithmetic calculator that takes input either from command-line arguments or from stdin. It demonstrates most of the language's current features, as well as interop with .NET. github.com/patriksvenss...

All set up for a fun day at #ndcoslo tomorrow! Drop in and say “hi” if you’re around 👋

Cake v6.3.0 is out 🚀🍰 NuGetLogin for GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publishing (no long-lived API keys), nullability-aware aliases, typed dotnet tool aliases, verbosity via config, and light-theme-friendly reports. cakebuild.net/blog/2026/09... #dotnet #devops #csharp

One of my favorite .NET conferences, Swetugg, just opened its CFP for 2027! See you there? sessionize.com/swetugg-stoc... #dotnet #cfp

Tomorrow we have elections in Sweden. I will of course, as always, vote for the only left leaning party left (no pun intended), which is the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet). I will never cast a vote based on my personal economic situation, but how I want us to shape our society.

They canceled the 50 dollar a month sponsorship of Gnome and Flatpack too- they couldn’t afford it.

DigitalOcean adds support for DOGE/Linux! Your new one-stop shop for fashware servers! (The term coined by @migueldeicaza.bsky.social afaik)

If the hubris that lead to security holes and poor engineering of doge/linux did not dissuade an enthusiastic friend, perhaps not supporting the Nazi ideology behind it will: www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-f...