This is my least favorite topic. You have been warned! — I’m pretty bad at this. You know, talking about myself this way. It’s not because I’m embarrassed or uncomfortable. I just don’t think Henrik Ståhl is a particularly interesting topic. So why would anything I write be interesting, you might ask? The answer to that is: I don’t know. Maybe…

A deep dive into the endeavor of a musician who never wanted to be an audio engineer. — Do you have the attention span of a Zoomer? Click here to skip to the less philosophically blubbery stuff. Yeah yeah, generative AI is all the buzz and every desperate content creator out there is trying to make hay while the sun shines (making money on shallow “prompt expertise”). …

Let’s settle this fucker once and for all. — HTML is ambiguous. It defines so many constructs without assigning them proper behavior. Some things are relatively clearly specified. Others… not so much. And to make matters worse, what’s valid today might be invalid tomorrow. Such is the very nature of HTML. Which ultimately means that multiple interpretations can technically…

Elon Musk is killing the iconic bird. — So Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to “X,” effectively killing the iconic bird logo in the process. This is of course just the latest change by the erratic billionaire since he acquired the very brand he’s now in the midst of deconstructing for a whopping $44 billion last year, but…

Has the time come for self-hosted open source tools such as Matomo, Plausible, and Umami? — Since the infamous “Schrems II” ruling back in July 2020, regulators, policymakers, and corporations have raced to assess, comply, enforce, and find a more workable long-term solution for data transfers after the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated EU-US Privacy Shield. In January 2022, the Austrian Data Protection…

How will Nintendo follow up the immense success of Tears of the Kingdom? — Tears of the Kingdom is hot off the press and I’m already thinking about the next installment. Why? Because Nintendo most certainly is. Development of Twilight Princess (released in 2006) was started before The Wind Waker (2003) was even finished; development of Skyward Sword (2011) began in 2006, right after…

Make Medium’s comments section great! (Not again, because they never were) — Finally! Customized Medium profiles are soon to be nothing but a fading memory: A few years ago, we introduced new tools to help you customize your Medium profile with background colors, accent colors, and fonts. In the time since launch, we haven’t seen the widespread adoption we’d anticipated for. We…

HBO could have rectified a wrong but they chose not to. — The season finale of the much-hyped HBO drama The Last of Us was almost as disappointing as I feared it would be. And its source material, the eponymous video game developed by Naughty Dog and released in 2013, is to blame. I hope you’re compelled to learn why, but in…

Analyzing the secrets of the next The Legend of Zelda game. — We’ve been waiting for six long years and now it’s finally within our reach: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, also known as Breath of the Wild 2. Nintendo is always pretty tight-lipped about the upcoming games in the The Legend of Zelda main series, but the secrecy…