Friendly software talk with sharp edges.
Trevlig Mjukvara moves between everyday developer practice and the politics of software. Recent excerpts range from Agile fatigue, CI/CD, and documentation to Stallman, Matrix, Mastodon, Home Assistant, GitHub Copilot, TikTok, Google location data, VLC, GIMP, USB-C, and Stadia.
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Trevlig Mjukvara is a Swedish-language software conversation about tools, developer habits, open technology, and the recurring ways software becomes less pleasant than it should be. The show’s own title sets up the contrast, and the excerpts keep circling it from several angles. Some material is close to everyday development work: Agile, documentation, CI/CD, pull requests, production releases, contract-heavy delivery, customer collaboration, stand-ups, and team maturity. Other passages move toward ideology and infrastructure, including Stallman, GNU, LibreJS, free JavaScript, Windows local-account restrictions, and the phrase that keeps following disappointed desktop users around: the year of Linux. It is not only Linux culture, though. The show follows the wider ecosystem around open and federated software, with Mastodon, Matrix, Element, Tumblr, Flickr, Fediverse ideas, and public-sector digital communication all appearing in the recent run. Platform power is another steady concern. Google location tracking, GitHub Copilot and open-source code, TikTok and GDPR, VLC access in India, Stadia’s shutdown, iCloud, GIMP, Home Assistant, Steam’s big picture mode, and USB-C all sit inside the same larger question: who gets control, who gets locked in, and who has to live with the resulting interface. The tone is informal and sometimes messy in a human way. Personal check-ins, running jokes, wrong numbers, soundboard moments, and mid-conversation corrections sit alongside concrete software details. That looseness gives the show room to be opinionated without becoming stiff. It can admire open-source ambition and still question whether a tool is usable in normal life. It can value Agile principles while pushing against ceremony, paperwork, and process theater. It can like a technology and still call out the parts that make users work too hard. Trevlig Mjukvara suits a listener who wants tech news and software development talk filtered through practical experience rather than press-release rhythm. Its strongest texture is the mix of principle and irritation: free software, user autonomy, smooth development flow, and the recurring suspicion that big platforms make choices easier for themselves than for users.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows software development, open-source culture, privacy, Linux-adjacent tools, and platform politics. It is a good fit for someone who wants Swedish tech conversation with practical developer context rather than polished product messaging.
What sets it apart: The show’s distinction is its mix of developer workflow and software ethics: Agile, CI/CD, and documentation sit beside Stallman, Matrix, Mastodon, Google, TikTok, GitHub Copilot, and Home Assistant. It sounds casual, but the recurring question is concrete: does the software give people more control or take it away?
I jakten på trevlig mjukvara och utveckling återvänder Alex och Tobias. I podden delar de med sig av nycklarna till modern mjukvaruutveckling och inspirerar lyssnarna till en vardag med mindre byråkrati och mer flow, med fokus på tech, team och pragmatism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, thoughtful conversation where Windows 11, LibreJS, reverse engineering, and Stallman's ideals meet everyday software life.
Trevlig Mjukvara starts with Microsoft making local accounts harder to use in Windows 11, then follows that irritation toward Stallman and the ideals behind free software.
A calm return to agile principles, grounded in production flow, public procurement, and practical delivery.
Trevlig Mjukvara returns with a new season and a slightly adjusted format, as Alex is joined by Tobias, a web developer whose professional work has spanned agencies, startups, and product companies since 2011.
A warm, curious look at Matrix, Swedish public-sector communication, and the bureaucracy inside a useful acronym.
Trevlig Mjukvara frames public-sector digital communication as a grounded software and coordination problem. Sebastian and Alex follow Sweden's search for a workable option after Skype support and maintenance were set to end, requested functionality disappeared, GDPR…
A warm software chat where Mastodon talk gives way to Home Assistant's practical open-source appeal.
Mastodon and Home Assistant make a tidy pairing for Trevlig Mjukvara: one a federated social network shaped by instances, language, and local rules, the other an open-source hub for managing smart and not-so-smart devices at home.
A loose half-year comeback turns Stadia's shutdown into a dry little prediction audit.
Trevlig Mjukvara comes back after roughly half a year away with a tidy piece of unfinished business: checking an old prediction against Google's announced Stadia shutdown on January 18, 2023.
Power Platform news with practical static.
Microsoft's October 7 move to make Windows 11 harder to use offline becomes the opening example of "enshittification." Alex and Tobias connect that change to Cory Doctorow's three-phase model and to the free software argument that users should not be locked into Microsoft accounts.
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Sebastian and Alex open Trevlig Mjukvara with a 1.10-1.20 meter real Christmas tree before moving into ChatGPT, Matrix, Mozilla, Unciv, and Linux traffic in India.
Trevlig Mjukvara’s “Federera ännu mera” weighs Tumblr’s planned ActivityPub support against practical problems involving Google, Steam, Raspberry Pi and iCloud.
Mastodon leads the episode, with Alex and Sebastian tying its surge to Elon Musk's Twitter changes, an $8-per-month blue checkmark, and more than 1 million active users.
Trevlig Mjukvara brings Alex and Seb back after about half a year, and Seb's main update is a difficult apartment hunt built around swapping two smaller rentals for one bigger place.
Dirty Pipe could let any user create a root SSH key and overwrite read-only files, and the hosts say the flaw entered Linux Kernel 5.8 in August 2020.
Daniel Stenberg says curl cannot be finished while HTTP, TLS, and supporting libraries keep changing.
Alex and Seb discuss moving apartments and Bokashi composting, but the show's core is about modern software development and team dynamics.
The hosts discuss Christmas feelings, snow in Gothenburg, and introduce a segment on Valve's Steam Deck FAQ.
Alex and Sebastian discuss the upcoming Linux Kernel 5.14, Steam tips, and a Microsoft product leak.
The hosts discuss upgrading a computer and preview topics including news, an unpleasantness, and updates on Rust programming.