about me
Hi! I’m Kristófer Reykjalín! Welcome to my site.
I’m a software engineer, Pokémon TCG player, gamer, husband, and, most importantly, father of 1 beautiful girl.
This is where I share and blog about things I find interesting, others might find helpful, and anything else I can think of. I don’t blog much anymore, but I update the various pages on this site frequently.
If you’re interested in the things I work on in my free time, take a look at my projects page.
Signal: reykjalin.14
Pronouns: he/him/his
archive
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2025-07-05
How to make scrollbars from scratch
A brief look at how I implemented scrollbars from scratch in libvaxis.
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2024-10-09
A recent episode on the Imagining Arc podcast got me thinking about why interfaces today are so vertical.
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2024-03-10
I've decided to redesign my whole site and it's now hand-crafted PHP and HTML. Why would I decide to do such a thing?
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2024-03-10
A look at all the different elements used on this blog, and how they're styled with the 2024-03 stylesheet.
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2021-04-05
Paged.js for creating printable documents with HTML and CSS
Paged.js is a really appealing way to create PDFs (or other types of printable documents) using HTML and CSS.
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2021-03-26
git send-email not working on macOS?
<code>git send-email</code> just doesn’t work with TLS encryption on macOS. Instead, try using SSL and see if that doesn’t fix whatever issue you’re having.
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2021-03-20
Managing your site with WordOps
WordOps is a fantastic tool to manage WordPress sites and the server hosting them. Let’s take a look at how to create you first site with WordOps!
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2021-03-02
"On the experience of being poor-ish, for people who aren't"
"On the experience of being poor-ish, for people who aren't" is a fantastic article about the experience of someone figuring out how to survive when you’re borderline broke. A healthy read for anyone, I think.
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2021-01-20
How do you share photos with your family?
For the last several years I've been living far away from my family and they want to know what I'm doing. How do you share photos with your family?
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2020-09-17
How to fix blurry text in macOS applications
I've been building macOS apps lately and always forget how to make the text not blurry. Here’s a simple way to fix that!
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2020-08-15
Is whatever conflict that happens to be "the biggest threat of your time™" really worth the majority of life on earth?
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2020-07-27
Build your own text editor with Reason — Getting started
Tutorial series on how to build simple, graphical text editor with Reason and Revery.
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2020-06-25
I'm changing the default branch name in my git repositories, and you should too
This small change could make someone extremely happy. Isn't a bit of discomfort a tiny price to pay for someone's happiness?
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2020-05-28
I've written before about how I'm not happy with the code editors available today. I think they can be improved upon, so I've started making my own.
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2020-04-20
How I protect my privacy online
Online privacy is complicated. How do I even begin to protect my privacy while online? This general approach will help you get started.
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2020-02-05
Fable is used to compile F# to JavaScript, but it's difficult to integrate properly with TypeScript. Let's find out how to do that.
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2019-09-27
Why don't we have good code editors?
I've tried so many code editors, but not one of them feels good enough. Why? I can only hope this mythical perfect editor will appear soon.