Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

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Father. Husband. Programmer. Likes OSS, compilers, programming. Spectre.Console, Cake. Works with R&D and innovation at Bitwarden. Ally ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♀️(He/Him) @patriksvensson@mstdn.social Stockholm, Sweden

iPhone Reminders notification reading "Sorry not a reminder an alarm," timestamped "Today, 9:15 PM," shown below the Dynamic Island.
Excavated dirt pit bordered by gray gravel, framed by wood beams on both sides, with a gloved hand and bucket at right. An interior foundation or crawlspace dig in progress.
Diagram of "Drift": a CI/CD push flows to a registry, then through a control plane and agent to a blue/green web swap, with Caddy routing traffic from the live blue release over to the new green one.
var parts = passwordHash.Split('.'); if (parts is not [Version, _, _, _]) { return false; }
Architecture diagram for "Drift", a container deployment system. Shows a control plane with REST API, deploy engine (blue/green), and gRPC AgentLink server coordinating agents on multiple servers. Each agent manages Docker containers via Caddy reverse proxy. CI/CD pushes images via webhook; operators use a CLI.
A small handheld device with a clear plastic case sits propped against a GitHub-branded card (featuring the Mona Lisa octocat mascot) on a laptop keyboard. The device’s screen displays the text “Is GitHub down?” with the answer “No” in a retro monospace font on a dark blue background.
CPU: 0% of 8 CPUs Memory: 2.5 / 15 GiB
Mac Mini on a shelf below a wall-mounted TV showing a Terminal with the Asahi Linux installer running.
Audience and an orchestra.
Picture of a man in fetal position.
Banana bread and a beer.
First-person view from a deck chair: a hand holds a ribbed glass tumbler of beer in the foreground, with bare feet propped up beyond it. Behind a glass railing, sunlit pine trees and a glimpse of blue water stretch under a clear sky.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Terminal output of git log showing three commits: "tests", "more", and "initial work".
Meme. A cartoon illustration showing the inside of a bus with two passengers sitting on opposite sides. The man on the left looks sad and gloomy, staring out his window at a dark, dreary cliff face of jagged grey rock. The man on the right looks happy and amazed, gazing out his window at a beautiful sunset over rolling mountains and a winding river. Same bus, same journey, but their experience depends entirely on which way they’re looking. A visual metaphor for how perspective and mindset shape the way we see life.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
A terminal UI sandbox app showing the "Sparkline" tab, with two animated sparkline charts labeled "Sine wave" and "Streaming" rendering in vibrant gradient colors as their values shift over time.
Almost the same video as in the previous tweet. A TUI example application that demonstrates text editing.
Screen recording of a terminal UI demo app (Spectre.Tui.App Sandbox) showing a TextBox component. A form with Name, Password, and Notes fields gets filled in — "Patrik" is typed into Name, a password is entered, and "Hello 😀 World!" is typed into Notes. Keyboard shortcuts like F2 and Shift+F2 appear as on-screen overlays as focus moves between fields. Colorful gradient progress bars animate at the bottom.
Screen recording of a terminal UI demo app ("Spectre.Tui.App Sandbox") cycling through three tabs — Table, List, and Scroll — showing widgets like a sortable cities table, a to-do list, and a scrollable popup with styled text. An FPS counter at the top reads around 57–60.
A terminal UI application with a retro dark theme showing a "Largest Cities" table with city rankings and population data, overlaid by an orange-bordered popup demonstrating word wrapping, colored text, and italic styles.
The same app as in previous posts, but this time with a pulsating, gradient progress bar next to it.
The same application as in the previous picture, but now with a progress bar going from 0 to 100 and back again.
A terminal application with tabs at the top. The user switches between the different tabs, and the view changes. Nothing exciting really to be honest.
An application running in the terminal, displaying a table containing data over the largest cities in the world.
A terminal UI application called "Tuiget" displaying a NuGet package browser. The interface has a search box at the top with "Spectre" entered, a scrollable results panel on the left listing matching packages with version numbers, and an info panel on the right showing details for the selected Spectre.Tui package, including author, license, and description. Keyboard shortcuts are shown along the bottom.
Screenshot of a terminal UI titled "NuGet TUI" with a search bar at the top containing the query "Spectre". Below are two side-by-side panels: a "Results" panel on the left showing a scrollable list of NuGet packages with version numbers, and an "Info" panel on the right displaying details for the highlighted package (Spectre.Tui), including authors, license, and description fields.
Screenshot of a terminal UI showing a To-Do list inside a panel with pink rounded borders. The panel has labeled corner and edge positions: "To-Do" as the top-left title, plus "Top center", "Top right", "Bottom left", "Bottom center", and "Bottom right". An FPS counter is displayed above the panel. The list contains several items in various states: dimmed unselected items, one completed item marked with a checkmark reading "An initially completed list item" (with "initially" in italics), and a highlighted item indicated by an arrow (→). A scrollbar is visible on the right side.
A terminal application showing the Spectre.Tui library. A bouncing ball and a todo list with a scrollbar.
Screenshot of a Spectre.Tui demo. A dark terminal with a pink outer border frames a green-bordered panel titled "Spectre.Console Features", showing off what the library can do.
A TV screen in a dimly lit living room showing the title screen of Pragmata, a sci-fi action-adventure game by Capcom. The screen displays Earth rising over a cratered lunar surface against a starry sky, with the game’s logo and “PRESS ANY BUTTON” prompt. In the foreground, a wine glass, a can, and some books are visible on a shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
A white ceramic mug featuring a bell curve chart. The peak is labeled “Good Dad” and a dashed arrow points to a spot left of center labeled “You,” implying the owner falls below average as a dad. The other side of the mug says "Not significantly different from a good dad"
A screenshot of my NuGet TUI explorer application.
A picture of a 128GB USB-C memory
An example of the TUI NuGet package explorer I'm building as an experiment.
A super simple TUI application for searching NuGet packages.
GitHub pull request title is "DRAFT: DO NOT MERGE!". Under the title, the pull request status reads "Merged".
Displays the two new render modes for FIGlet text in the terminal; fitting and smushing.
Me and Ragnar!
Screenshot of the debugger showing parsed tokens from an OSC input string.
LinkedIn: Looks like it's that day of the year when companies in my feed celebrate women before going back to paying them 25% less again. Same thing as with Pride Month. I wish companies showed this kind of commitment 365 days of the year instead of posturing whenever they think they can get some goodwill out of it.
"Conservative politicians angry after the attack: "Sick liars"
McGugan text boxes in the terminal
"Hi! Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this PR. I really appreciate the contribution! Unfortunately, I haven’t had the capacity to review this in a timely manner, and since it was opened, the repository has changed significantly. Because of that, this PR is no longer in a state where it can be reviewed or merged as-is. This is not your fault, but mine, and I'm sorry about this. I’m going to close it for now to help keep things tidy. That said, if you’re still interested in contributing, please feel free to open a new pull request that’s up to date with the current state of the repository, and I’ll be happy to take a look when I can. I'll promise I'll do better this time around. Thanks again for your work and for your interest in the project!"
A terminal app running a three shaders: 1. A journey through some kind of cave 2. A weird, zooming kaleidoscope effect 3. A star field with a blue big star in the background
"dotnet run" in the terminal using a Spectre.Console prompt.
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined on the PS5.
A selectable list in the terminal, with a ball bouncing around in the background.
A selectable list in the terminal
A TUI "shell" showing live logs in an ASP.NET application, as well as options to inspect configuration and registered services.
A printed state diagram for a VT500-series parser.
Screenshot of me cancelling my Microsoft Azure subscription in favor of a EU-based cloud provider.
"The params keyword with List<byte> is incorrect usage. The params keyword should be used with arrays, not with collection types. This should be either params byte[] codes or just List<byte> codes without the params modifier."
"This code is conditioned on NET10_0_OR_GREATER which will never be compiled since .NET 10 does not exist yet. The Lock type and extension syntax are features that should be targeted for an existing .NET version. Additionally, the extension syntax shown here does not appear to be valid C# syntax for extension methods."
CoPilot review says "The comment incorrectly states that the parameter name is 'output' when it should be 'out'. Update the parameter documentation to match the actual parameter name", which is not true.
A tardigrade playing the world's smallest violin.