Niels Sonnich Poulsen

I am a 32 year old software developer and this is my website. I write about my personal software projects and interests, such as programming languages, old GUIs, static site generation, and more. I also sometimes make games.

2024

• 22 November: Notes on ray casting
• 10 October: Classic stylesheets for web applications 2.0
• 17 April: I renamed CSTK to Cytoplasmic and narrowed down the scope to focus on creating a simple reactive frontend library.
• 7 April: I'm still working on a 2D MMORPG

2023

• 25 March: I'm making a 2D MMORPG

2022

• 12 August: Released Underground Tomorrow for PBBG Jam 2022
• 14 May: Started writing a devlog for MUG.
• 10 April: Updated the GUI section with screenshots from KDE 3.0.1.
• 9 April: I redesigned the front page of my website again and added support for dark mode.
• 15 March: Uncomment – a lightweight comment system for static websites

2021

• 29 July: Started working on a new browser game: MUG, a multiplayer space RPG.
• 27 July: Replaced Disqus with Uncomment.
• 17 June: Replaced Google Analytics with Shynet.
• 10 June: Began working on Uncomment as a replacement for Disqus.
• 5 June: Animated line of chevrons on HTML canvas
• 19 May: I redesigned my website.
• 13 May: Yet another static site generator
• 7 February: Started work on Plet, a static site generator in C based on the template language from TEXTSTEP.

2020

• 22 November: Started working on CSTK, an attempt to create a simple JSX-based frontend TypeScript library.
• 12 September: Created Galaxio, a simple browser-based strategy game.
• 24 July: Designing the TEXTSTEP user interface
• 13 June: Created Classic stylesheets for web applciations, a project dedicated to recreating the look and feel of classic desktop environments – such as Windows 95 and CDE – in CSS.
• 23 May: Started an interactive timeline of buttons from various GUIs.

2019

• 14 September: Bringing a Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT back to life

2018

• 3 July: Slackware Linux 7.1: A time capsule
• 24 June: Added GUI section with screenshots from old versions of Slackware Linux.
• 19 April: Porting csol to DOS for no reason

2017

• 12 November: csol – a small collection of solitaire/patience games for the terminal
• 9 November: Shared my minimal vimrc.
• 19 March: I released yuk for playing Yukon solitaire in the terminal

2016

• 3 December: A LifeBook P1630 and Arch Linux
• 25 November: A very simple calculator in Vim
• 31 October: I replaced my home-cooked PHP CMS Jivoo CMS with TEXTSTEP, a static site generator with a GUI.

2015

• 15 November: I released Parco a parser combinator library for PHP.
• 29 June: Creating a scanner using parser combinators in Scala
• 20 February: ColorGrab: A cross-platform color picker

2014

• 7 October: I registered this domain and started hosting a blog using Jivoo CMS.
• 1 January: I created jqCandlestick, a JavaScript library for creating charts.

2012

• 24 June: Started working on ctodo, a todo list in C.

2008

• Worked on Battle of the Island, a browser-based strategy game with isometric graphics.

2004

• I started making websites.