# about

I'm Alvar Sjögren — a student on the Civilingenjör i Interaktion och Design programme at Umeå University. It's a five-year engineering degree that combines computer science with human-centered interaction design.

Outside of coursework I spend most of my time building things. I run a home lab with Proxmox, OPNsense, and a growing stack of self-hosted services. I make games with Godot. I tinker with 3D printing. And I try to understand every layer of the systems I use — from the kernel up.

My daily driver is Arch Linux with Hyprland. I care about open source, self-hosting, and building things properly rather than quickly. If something can be understood, it should be. If something can be self-hosted, it probably should be.

# interests

• Infrastructure — home lab networking, virtualization, self-hosting
• Game development — Godot 4, game jams with Team Skade
• Linux — Arch, Hyprland, dotfile tinkering, workflow optimization
• 3D printing — functional prints, enclosures, prototyping
• Interaction design — making technology that respects its users

# this site

Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks, no build tools, no dependencies. The source is as minimal as I could make it while still looking the way I want.

If you want to get in touch, head over to the contact page →