Building a chess MCP

Recent life I recently found myself with more free time and less direction than I’ve had since joining the prestigious ranks of real adults sometime in my early 20s. It’s been fun. I spent the first week doing absolutely nothing productive. I tented for 4 days somewhere in the forest in southern Sweden while attending a techno festival, spent a combined 20 hours on trains to and from Cologne in order to attend a Denzel Curry concert with an old friend, and started reading a new book, Growth, so far so good! ...

July 8, 2025

On leaving Spotify

Starting as an intern Exactly 3 years ago, on the 13th of June 2022, I started my internship at Spotify. At the time I was based in Stockholm, on my way to finishing up a master’s degree in machine learning at KTH (hah!). Spotify had been my dream company for a while before that. It was a tech product I genuinely loved using as a consumer, a huge success story closely affilliated with my own university, and it was chock full of cool engineering and ML feats obvious to any tech-literate user of the app. ...

June 13, 2025