Now
- Updated
Building
Porting trolz.dk to plain HTML
Done enough that I switched off the old Next.js site (old.trolz.dk) on October 16, 2026. Two things have moved in since: Soul.md with its full transcript and the Game Lab, which left game-lab.trolz.dk. Still one hand-written file per page, no framework, no build, 14 KB budget, and still chasing the cheapest and fastest portfolio page that looks like someone cared. The before-and-after numbers are on /speed.
Dogfooding pergrn.com
Using it daily, mainly as a place to unload thoughts on my different projects. I use the MCP through my Hermes personal assistant bot for this.
A realtime puzzle game set in Japan in the 1700s
Built on real lore from the period, with my own story running alongside it.
herdr-ledger
Tracks the agents and skills I run: what each one costs in money and time, and what the work was like.
Small Sparks
A React Native app of conversation starters for parents and kids. Nearly finished, launch sequence ready.
Reading and writing
- Reading The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
An essay on European software craft
Drafting. The argument: as AI compresses execution cost, European craft sensibility (Lego, B&O, Hermès) is replacing Silicon Valley blitzscale as the dominant aesthetic in software.
Yjs migration teardown
Drafted, queued for Substack. Why Yjs over plain Broadcast, the atomic-seed SQL, the offline reconnect failure mode, the React StrictMode gotchas.
Letters
Irregular long-form on software, craft, and the AI era. Three posts in April. New ones queued.
Thoughts and life
- How AI makes it possible to build insanely lean websites, and making this one prove it
- Making Brand Manager a place to manage your brand rather than a place to build one
- Karri Saarinen’s pivot from issue tracker to context infrastructure for agents
A new roof on the farmhouse
About 95% done ripping the old one off and putting the new one on. The remaining 5% is, as always, the slow part.
This page is part of the /now movement (opens in new tab) — a quiet convention where folks publish what they’re currently working on. Reach me at trolz@hey.com.