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About me
Hi!
My name is Linus Åkesson, though some of you may know me
as lft. I live in
Lund, Sweden, and work as a software engineer.
I dabble in many different areas, such as music, poetry, movies,
programming, yoga, mathematics, meta-mathematics, Swedish folk dance, books,
translation, psychology & sociology, information security, close-up magic,
language (Japanese!), discordianism, electronics, type setting, meditation,
mechatronics, lucid dreaming etc.
I enjoy listening to Bach, Opeth, Philip Glass, Einstürtzende Neubauten,
Pain of Salvation, Pärt, Chopin, Hallucinogen, Virt, Fates Warning, Martin Galway,
Rob Hubbard, Jogeir Liljedahl, Jethro Tull, Hans Zimmer, Xerxes, Hallucinogen,
Shpongle, Shulman, Infected Mushroom, Vanessa Mae, Robert Miles, Hoven Droven,
Tummel, Kraftwerk, Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna, Morlack, Solar Stone, Conjure One,
Hisaishi Joe, Wagner, Lizardking, Liszt and many others.
Posted Saturday 23-Dec-2006 10:38 | Discuss this pageDisclaimer: I am not responsible for what people (other than myself) write in the forums. Please report any abuse, such as insults, slander, spam and illegal material, and I will take appropriate actions. Don't feed the trolls. Jag tar inget ansvar för det som skrivs i forumet, förutom mina egna inlägg. Vänligen rapportera alla inlägg som bryter mot reglerna, så ska jag se vad jag kan göra. Som regelbrott räknas till exempel förolämpningar, förtal, spam och olagligt material. Mata inte trålarna. Anonymous
Wed 9-Apr-2008 16:43 | You forgot to mention Hallucinogen. ;) | Anonymous
Wed 9-Apr-2008 16:51 | You must be older than 115 to get the knowledge you have and such composition skills?...
Mucho respect! | Anonymous
Wed 30-Jul-2008 02:45 | If I didn't like your compositions so much, I'd say that, by your self-description, you are a little bit pretentious... | basafa
Alireza Basafa
Thu 28-Aug-2008 18:34 | Hurrah for your ambition (no your pretentious !) | Anonymous
Fri 26-Jun-2009 21:33 | ql))) | Anonymous
Thu 25-Feb-2010 21:42 | I've spent a lot of time programming a range of computers in a variety of languages since the mid 80's. I was part of the demo scene during many years and since about seven years I work as a professional software engineer. During all these years I've had the opportunity to meet quite a few talented people. Let me say that it takes a lot to impress me nowadays, but you certainly have! What's your source of inspiration?
Keep up the great work! | lft
Linus Åkesson
Thu 18-Mar-2010 18:58 | I've spent a lot of time programming a range of computers in a variety of languages since the mid 80's. I was part of the demo scene during many years and since about seven years I work as a professional software engineer. During all these years I've had the opportunity to meet quite a few talented people. Let me say that it takes a lot to impress me nowadays, but you certainly have! What's your source of inspiration?
Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I'm inspired by everything I see. =) But the demoscene is one great source of ideas, and I often read about other people's projects through make magazine etc. It's really hard to not get carried away and do everything that falls into your head, because then you'd never get anything done. | Anonymous
Mon 22-Mar-2010 09:43 | lis6502: hi dude. I really admire you. You programing skills, electronics and stuff. But most of them i really admire your chiptracking skills. The 'Hardware chiptune' which i heard on youtube was so unique, unlike other chips, that i had to make an XM remake of it :D http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=168134 <-check this out plox and tell me how can i make it better.
XMPP:[mynick]@jid.dug.net.pl
Mail:[mynick]_on_gmail
IRC:[mynick]@irc.upnet.org.pl#autom8 {preferably XMPP}
Keep up good work, greetingz from Poland;) | Anonymous
Fri 23-Jul-2010 19:54 | You're awesome! | Anonymous
Sat 24-Jul-2010 08:37 | Congrats man! Your video made it on Engadget. | Anonymous
Sat 24-Jul-2010 20:19 | I don't understand how you find the time for this.
With a full time job programming? | Anonymous
Sat 24-Jul-2010 20:19 | If I didn't like your compositions so much, I'd say that, by your self-description, you are a little bit pretentious...
I smell some jealousy In your writing. | Anonymous
Sat 24-Jul-2010 21:38 | Linus you are a source of inspiration. Thank you for existing and having your website in english.
from Puerto Rico, xirbin. | Anonymous
Sat 24-Jul-2010 22:35 | Linus you are a source of inspiration. Thank you for existing and having your website in english.
from Puerto Rico, xirbin.
+1 | Anonymous
Tue 27-Jul-2010 21:51 | lft wrote: It's really hard to not get carried away and do everything that falls into your head, because then you'd never get anything done.
That's exactly the problem i have, but how to solve it? | ralph
Ralph Corderoy
Wed 28-Jul-2010 09:47 | That's exactly the problem i have, but how to solve it?
Good question. I find the Internet is to blame for shortening my attention span and making it harder to concentrate on one thing. Gone are the days of reading a book in one sitting. Still, nothing a bit of self-discipline wouldn't fix, I suppose? | lft
Linus Åkesson
Thu 29-Jul-2010 07:21 | ralph wrote: That's exactly the problem i have, but how to solve it? Good question. I find the Internet is to blame for shortening my attention span and making it harder to concentrate on one thing. Gone are the days of reading a book in one sitting. Still, nothing a bit of self-discipline wouldn't fix, I suppose?
I try to divide my days into different sections; Mornings are for reading RSS feeds and my list of URLs, at work I can usually find the time to check email and IRC, and when I get home I try to avoid the internet altogether, except when I need to look up something specific. I obviously don't have a TV set. Then, of course, any self-imposed scheme like this can be disregarded as needed on a day to day basis, but it generally pays off to stick to it. | Anonymous
Thu 5-Aug-2010 20:43 | Hey Linus, I got acquainted with your work through the Chipophone demonstration video and as if that wasn't impressive enough I browsed through your homepage and other video's a little bit and I'm blown away. I used to be a chiptune (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6f9DqJ4Vl0 - you may or may not have seen my nickname or group come by..) and assembler aficionado myself and I was highly interested in scene productions myself some 10-15 years ago, and I've never or rarely encountered someone with such a diverse and extensive set of skills of you. Anyway, as far as programming goes, have you ever delved into the topic of metamorphic code, ie. code that (fully) reprograms itself? It was (is?) mainly used in (demonstrational) computer viruses so anti-virus couldn't detect it by seeking for fixed binary strings and it's a great brain excercise to program.
I wish I still had the dedication to occupy myself with such pet-projects.
Guido | Anonymous
Sat 7-Aug-2010 02:41 | You must be older than 115 to get the knowledge you have and such composition skills?...
Mucho respect! I wanted to write something, but what is said above is well explanatory. good luck from GBG | lft
Linus Åkesson
Tue 24-Aug-2010 17:48 | ... Anyway, as far as programming goes, have you ever delved into the topic of metamorphic code, ie. code that (fully) reprograms itself? It was (is?) mainly used in (demonstrational) computer viruses so anti-virus couldn't detect it by seeking for fixed binary strings and it's a great brain excercise to program.
Not yet. =) It's a fascinating subject, but I've only read a basic overview so far. | Anonymous
Sun 2-Jan-2011 08:34 | That's really good! Wish I heard this in the 80's... I haven't heard this b4! --- cam at stotz.us
lis6502: hi dude. I really admire you. You programing skills, electronics and stuff. But most of them i really admire your chiptracking skills. The 'Hardware chiptune' which i heard on youtube was so unique, unlike other chips, that i had to make an XM remake of it :D http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=168134 <-check this out plox and tell me how can i make it better.
XMPP:[mynick]@jid.dug.net.pl
Mail:[mynick]_on_gmail
IRC:[mynick]@irc.upnet.org.pl#autom8 {preferably XMPP}
Keep up good work, greetingz from Poland;) | Anonymous
Wed 27-Apr-2011 22:01 | Hi Linus,
Thank you for your great contribution to 8-bit music and SID-Chip compositions. If you should ever have any need for webdesign or webprograming just ask, and I'll gladly contribute. :-)
Have downloaded all your compositions and they are now site by site with the Lizardking and some of the other old SID-kings. ;-) | Anonymous
Wed 18-May-2011 06:24 | What exactly make his description pretentious? That he seem to be interested and enjoy many different things from an array of different fields? Or that he's better than you at most of those stuff?:P | Anonymous
Wed 1-Jun-2011 16:27 | awesome site, a lot of knowledge available in all these articles. i especially like the tty stuff, but also the retro stuff ... please keep your site running ... |
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