About me

Hello, I am Bjarne. I am happy to welcome you to my website. I'm still setting things up, but please feel free to look around what's already there. I love to create and understand how things work. Currently I am trying my best at making my own phone! Follow my progress through my blog/RSS feed and the project page. As I am not proficient in low level like C++, I'm happy to receive any help I can get in form of PRs or just general advice. Generally, I try to stay curious on everything and anything and hope I can share that through this website.

Early programming life

My focus has always been about computers. I think it is really fascinating. When I was 8, I started "developing" my first games using "PowerPoint". I should still have them lying around on some hard drive. When I find them, I will definitely post them on here. When I got around to making a level editor for that game though, I quickly found myself overwhelmed. Turns out that having a 10 by 10 grid with different things to place on results in quite a lot of slides. I of course didn't make that calculation and pushed on. My father thankfully stopped me from continuing and installed Game Maker 7 on my computer. Who knows how many slides I would have continued to create.

With Game Maker I have made multiple games, two of which got an 1.0.0 release before distracting myself with another project. Neon Ball Jack the Jumper

Going Professional

In retrospect, I would have preferred taking studies in other subjects more seriously when it mattered. But during high school, I couldn't be bothered about anything not related to computers. So I was rather happy when I started being an apprentice in the field of computer science.

Doing so, I learned how to actually program. It was lots of fun making silly games in HTML or battling different programs against each other. Later I was at a company as an apprentice where I got to know the professional world. The company was located in the city, so I was commuting a bunch. This is where I thought about my "dream game". There are a few pictures flying around the web of some early versions I have made. I really hope that one day, I can unveil it in full.

My bike

Besides my computer, I also love my bike. I bought it in 2022 at the Fietsenbörse which is a great place to get a used bike. I've been lucky though as I am rather tall, and bikes in my size are not often sold, especially on a used market. It is a single speed bike which is nice. I don't have to bother about what gear to drive in because I'm always driving in the wrong one.

I love to take my bike out on a ride even if I don't have a destination in mind. It is so much fun, the city recently has put up new sign posts for bike lanes so I don't even need a map now which is great.

It does have a flip-flop hub, and I have tried the fixed side, but there is no way I'll be driving that daily. I have no idea how anybody can drive with that, and I've only seen it used once in the city.

I'll be making a comprehensive list of all stickers and parts of the bike and will be posting them on here in a while!