I'm Ulf Åström and this is my personal homepage. I don't advertise this place much so you probably know already who I am and what you are looking for. The purpose of this homepage is to document the things I do. It is my digital drawer that you may peruse as you wish.

I sometimes neglect maintaining this page. If you find something that's horribly out of date, let me know (or don't! "LOL")

Stuff I Have Been Busy With Lately (aka "Updates")

• BASMENT DWELLERS, an epic next-gen RPG about killing monsters and stealing their treasure - now on Steam!
• DATAJESUS, a webcomic (in swedish only)
• I designed an "I ♥ HICCUPS" shirt - so far, no one has bought it!?
• Spoofing Firefox useragent, to avoid e.g. Facebook pushing its Messenger app

Game Development

• SLAKT, a platform shoot 'em up with a western theme
• I'm developing a roguelike called The Slimy Lichmummy (TSL for short)
• The 2014 International Roguelike Developers Conference in Berlin, Germany
• The 2013 International Roguelike Developers Conference in Poznań, Poland
• The 2012 International Roguelike Developers Conference in London, UK
• The 2011 International Roguelike Developers Conference in Visby, Sweden
• A DAY @ THE ZOO, for the 7-day roguelike challenge 2013
• "BRAABLIBS' CURSE" - a game I probably will not be making

Other Zoftware

• A serialization library for C. It converts binary data to human-readable text and back, including pointers and arrays. zlib license.
• A camouflage pattern generator that emulates some common military camouflage patterns. I wanted to port it to JavaScript but I haven't had the time or motivation, so now I mostly consider it a dead project. However, Gael Lederrey has rewritten it in Python.
• A small example how to do line wrapping in C

Music

• Music I've made
• My ukulele chord finder [needs rewrite; BBL]
• A script that generates random goth metal lyrics
• I sometimes record live videos of concerts (playlist on my YouTube channel)

Other activities

• I play mahjong
• My travel page
• My photos of parking ticket machines page
• My user page at the geohashing community wiki. Geohashing is an Internet game/GPS sport about visiting random locations and having spontaneous adventures. I'm not very active anymore.
• Recycling on 2017-12-19

Writing

• Is "Dune" really that good? (2018)
• Kvinnor i rockmusiken (2016) - a short essay about women in rock music, written as part of my university studies (in swedish only).

Images

• Miscellaneous photos
• Some other images
• What's going on in Happy Pony Land today? A fragmentary story of commuting to work, interpreted by oddmunds. Part 1 | Part 2
• Creepy webcam photos

Nostalgia

• My first computer, a 8088 "laptop": the Bondwell Model 8 Turbo!
• Some other assorted rarities junk I have collected over the years.
• Refresh rates for the LG 775FT monitor
• Repainting an IBM Model M keyboard - the result will surprise you!
• manwithchainsaw, a brief attempt at a webcomic.
• Small Chip Compo 01 that I hosted in 2003
• A scanned manual for the SANSUI WS-X1 6-track cassette recorder.
• Comet Hunter, a tiny QBASIC shoot 'em up I made in 2000. It's rather clunky and there's almost no challenge to it, but at the time I was struggling to release any game at all so I felt quite accomplished (download).
• Games I've played, with mini-reviews and anecdotes
• Site history

Professional

I'm recovering from burnout. I worked for ten years as a technical consultant in electrical engineering (I did a lot of CAD and a bit of programming); it was like living in a Dilbert strip.

Currently I'm doing full-time university studies while I figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

I put this silly thing together to showcase my skills. If you have an interesting proposal, we should get in touch.

Other things

• My keyboard layout, with various notes
• Get yourself a random number today!
• Broom
• My page of links to other places of interest