Essays on software, attention,
and the places in between.
I'm Jonas — a software engineer and occasional writer based in Copenhagen. I write about building things carefully, paying attention on purpose, and the cities I wander through when I'm not at a keyboard.
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The Quiet Power of Doing One Thing at a Time
For three years I kept a to-do list with forty-one items on it. I finished maybe six a week and felt busy the entire time. What changed when I cut the list down to three.
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Notes from a Week in Lisbon
Seven days, four notebooks, one very steep tram. On tiled facades, the sound of Portuguese at seven in the morning, and why I travel with fewer plans than I used to.
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Why I Still Write on a Static Site
No database, no plugins, no security patches at midnight. A folder of HTML files has outlasted every content management system I've ever installed.