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kylek
Åkesson's work always blows my mind away.

One of my favorites is Paralellogram [0]

[0] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/index.php

edit: name correction! (indeed that is a cool name!)

dancek
It's Åkesson, actually. Quite cool to have your initial mostly unused as a one-letter abbreviation/name. Except for ångström (Å), of course.
towb
Å is a good letter in many ways, but not for names. Just my opinion, and I do have around 30 years of personal experience :P
spraak
My HN username should be språk but I couldn't register it that way.
towb
Which is usually a thing even on local sites for some reason.

Nothing huge ever happened because of my Å name, but it piles up over the years. Biggest issue was when a very confused man tried to check me in at an airport and had no idea how. Took maybe 20-30 minutes and the solution was "AA". Probably not as much manual typing these days, this was 10+ years ago.

dancek
I can see where you're coming from. My native language (Finnish) also uses letters with diareses, mostly ä and ö but also å. But I did make sure my kids' names are easy to spell and pronounce in English. A name like Ääliö would be just asking for trouble, in many senses. ;)
stas2k
I like he casually has a Symbolics keyboard on his desk(easily mistaken as Commadore hardware)
Accujack
I like this explanation of what it is:

"In a sense, the Å-machine is to Dialog what Glulx is to Inform 7. "

It reminds me of Alan Perlis' quote:

“Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.”

thanatropism
Or the classic "monads are just monoids on the category of endofunctors".
wyldfire
It's really comical: I paused and had a chuckle when I read this sentence too.

But to everyone else who wonders: this is an interactive fiction component/library. Like classics from infocom (Zork et al), but modern.

I tried briefly playing the author's game, "Tethered" [1] but gave up quickly because after sacrificing Judith I couldn't figure out how to summon any light or move anywhere. Supposedly I'm 'working' this morning... ;)

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/games/tethered/tethered-aa/play....

Apofis
Tell him to get Certbot. nvm, tell him to do a http>https redirect.