Linus Åkesson’s homepage is what happens when a personal website is allowed to remain a personal website for years instead of being converted into a brand funnel. There is code, music, hardware, poetry, old computers and whatever else happened to become interesting.
Åkesson, also known in the demoscene as lft, is a Swedish software engineer whose site functions as homepage, blog, documentation archive and download server. Its navigation is almost a manifesto by accident: chip music, hardware projects, games, obfuscated programming, C64 material, interactive fiction, software downloads and scene productions all sit beside one another because one person made all of them.
In other words, categories follow curiosity rather than a content strategy.
Machines that make music and software that fits where it shouldn’t
The featured projects include custom electronic instruments such as the Chipophone and Commodordion, Commodore 64 experiments, microcontroller music, programming techniques and demoscene productions. An early Linux 4K intro placed second at DreamHack Winter 2004. Elsewhere the site documents Dialog, Åkesson’s programming language for interactive fiction, along with the standard library used to build old-school text adventures.
The writing often goes deep enough to become reference material. Instead of merely showing that a project exists, Åkesson explains the trick, posts executable files, documents hardware and leaves the intermediate thinking available for other technical people to inspect.
That is one of the old Web’s best habits.
The important part: it never stopped
The site is not preserved behind glass. It was still publishing new pages in 2026, including C64 demos and performances at 8-bit music events. A homepage that started in the era of personal publishing remains personal while the surrounding Web has changed several times over.
For webmasters, there is a useful lesson here. A site can earn durable search traffic without flattening itself into one subject if the individual pages are specific, well linked and genuinely worth finding. Personality does not have to be removed for information architecture to work.
Linus’s site is one of the hand-built technical corners collected in CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list. The full list has many more places where somebody’s interests became an archive almost by accident.
A random-page button is still included in the navigation. More websites should have one.