Rant – Sorenskott.net

New web design & logo

Søren — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:50:50 +0000

I’m excited to announce the launch of my brand-new website! It’s been a long time in the making, but I’m really happy with how it’s turned out. I realize, that it wasn’t long ago that the 3.0 version saw the light of day, but as time went on, I became more and more annoyed with […]

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Cookies and New Portfolio

Søren — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 08:13:20 +0000

In the interest of transparency, I am planning on announcing any major changes I have made to my website. So without further ado, let’s dive into the changes I have made this round. Cookie consent In order to abide by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) I have implemented a cookie consent function that […]

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The Return of Place

Søren — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:21:58 +0000

The canvas is reset and the pixel drawing have commenced, yesterday Reddit relaunched its Subreddit /r/place. For those who don’t know what Reddit/r/place is all about, back in 2017, as part of an April 1st event the folks behind the social media platform Reddit, created a Subreddit called “Place” which had a giant blank canvas, […]

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The War in Ukraine

Søren — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 11:59:33 +0000

I was debating with myself if I should write this as I don’t want to come off as just another individual joining the cacophony of useless thoughts & prayers. At the end of the day I thought “fuck it, I need to get this off my chest” because this has plagued my mind since all of […]

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Introducing 3.0 of my Website

Søren — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:01:24 +0000

Out with the old, in with the new For the past couple of months I have contemplated with the idea of remaking my website as I was not quite happy with the previous design as my previous site builder was very limited in terms of design creativity. You might be wondering, “why limit yourself to […]

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A Hilarious/Scary Practice in Voice Synthesis

Søren — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:59:13 +0000

A few weeks ago, I recently came across a YouTube channel called ‘A Stable Genius’. This channel contains a small series of videos that really gives a good example of how sophisticated AI voice synthesis is becoming. The channel’s author explains, that they have developed and trained an AI on speech patterns of famous, real […]

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Stop the censorship-machinery! Save the Internet!

Søren — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:01:39 +0000

This post is most likely not going to be viewed by a lot of people, if none at all. Regardless, I feel it is important to raise awareness wherever I can, as the Internet in the EU is currently faced with the danger of becoming a hellscape of censorship as a result of article 11 […]

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New Site Layout

Søren — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:11:56 +0000

For a while, I had the idea of changing the layout of my website and finally decided to do something about it. So today I present Sorenskott.net 2.0*.

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It’s that time of the year – Black Friday

Søren — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:15:37 +0000

You all know it, you all hate- or love it; that's right, Black Friday. Once a year, people decide that it is a grand idea to fight each other over material goods they most likely don't even need. But who can say no to a -33% discount on a new television, when you probably already have one at home that works perfectly fine.

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Practicing the fine art of Photoshop

Søren — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:53:23 +0000

Photoshop is a software I have been familiar with for quite some time, since 2011 to be precise when I started taking classes as a web programmer. Whether I was making designs for website or simply sat down and toyed with random image manipulations, I never really managed to produce anything I was happy with. […]

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