The Louie

The Louie

The Louie

The Louie

"I create stuff."

Just before DreamHack Summer 2011 Hannes "Hanes" Rahm and I sat down and talked about that it would be cool to actually submit something for the Wild-competition at DH which only was two weeks away. After a couple of hours brainstorm and research on Internet we had an idea, and Illusions is the result. This was the first Wild/Animation entry released at DreamHack by me and Hanes. Released under the group Zink-Interactive who by placing first both in 64-bit demo and combined demo previously [...]

After a discussion with a friend about how accurate yr.no was, compared to smhi.se, i set out to test it. DATA > DOGMA! I wrote a small perl-script that scraped the temperature predictions from yr.no and every hour and saved all the values. To have something to compare to I recorded the temperature outside my appartment window as well as scraped another temperature measured about 10km away from from temperatur.nu. Since yr.nu updates their forecasts several times a day i wanted also wanted to [...]

I was curious about statistics and network performance at DreamHack and wanted to get statistics for all of the user ports on the local network. There was no way a standard statefull program would be able to get the statistics for the hundreds of switches and thousands of ports on the network. So I created two simple python scripts. One that would spew out SNMP packets as fast as possible and one that would listen on incoming replies and print out the content on STDOUT. The sending script created [...]

I've attended all main Dreamhack events in some capacity (participant, crew, sponsor) since 1997. The first couple of years as a normal participant, starting in Borlänge and later in my home town Jönköping. When Dreamhack moved to Jönköping me and a friend got an idea of setting up webcams and streaming the buildup and event for everyone to see. This was well before Twitch or any other platform that made it easy to stream your own video so we had to invent most of it ourself, and use equipment we [...]