More about me

Are you curious who the weird fellow that created this website is? That curiosity can be cured, I have created a page with information about me. I have a blog where I post various technobabble in:

• Making man pages easier to read (2024-11-19)
• Memories of childhood (2024-03-19)
• Adding a Mastodon feed to a static HTML site (2023-12-18)
• Moving a website to a new host (2023-12-18)
• On the futility of using Microsoft as an email provider (2023-01-23)

These days I hang around on social media, like everyone else. I can be found on both Mastodon at Vivaldi Social and on Facebook. Here are my latest toots on Mastodon:

• Reply in thread (2024-11-20):
  @nixCraft We have been using #Jenkins at $DAYJOB for the last ten years. We didn't have any autobuilders set up when I started working here, and Jenkins was the easiest to set up.
  It is painfully ignorant of branches in VCSes, which means I have to set up a new builder for every single branch I want to build from, but I've learned to live with it.
  Haven't found a good alternative yet, though. Anything that cannot be installed on-premises is not an option.
• Reply in thread (2024-11-20):
  @TauPan When I need to do something like that, and "git log --follow -p -C -C -M" doesn't work, I resort to "git gui blame" on the file, and look at where things are introduced, and then use the "show history context" to look at the change and "blame parent commit" to find the code as it was previous to continue searching backwards.
• Reply in thread (2024-11-19):
  @klausman @nixCraft Applied a couple of minor fixes. It now at least passes #ShellCheck without complaints, which is good.
• Reply in thread (2024-11-19):
  @magitian @nixCraft Yeah, but then it needs some other way to get rid of the temporary file, as xdg-open exits immediately.
• Reply in thread (2024-11-19):
  @klausman @nixCraft Yeah, it has mostly evolved for private use, and I want really planning on publishing it. Probably a lot that can be cleaned up, but it had served me well over the last decade or so. But improvements are always welcome

These pages are written to conform to the standards for web pages, if you have a web browser that does not handle these correct you may run into problems. I regularly test the pages in Vivaldi and Lynx.

Wrestling

I'm a fan of wrestling , and I maintain American Wrestling Trivia with results from American pro-wrestling. If you are interested in American wrestling, then this site is sure worth taking a look at! I have got results from main events of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), All Elite Wrestling (AEW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) dating back as far as to 1985.

Computers

I'm also a programmer, and some of the software I've written I have made available for download here. Some is also available on GitHub. Some of my other creations include my web games, which are available on-line for your pleasure.

The first computer I owned myself was a Commodore 64, which I still have. A part of my website is devoted to Commodore eight-bit machines, and among the stuff available there is an on-line version of my old PD library, some scanned version of old cool ads about Commodore machines, the home page of the now defunct Swedish non-profit Commodore magazine Åtta Bitar (Eight bits), for which I wrote a few articles, something I've continued to do for other magazines, such as Go64.

I was active on FidoNet between 1994 and the beginning of the 2000s. For the Swedish Fidonet audience, I have a page devoted to the yearly Swedish Fidonet convention SupCon. Up until 2000 I posted FAQ documents in several Fidonet echoes.

Miscellaneous

On the web, one can find information on everything and nothing. I was thus surprised when I noticed that I could not find any website about the fine old collectors' card game SuperTrumf from the mid 1980s. Well, that problem was easy to fix, and you can see the result yourself.

I have more unsorted pages available, plus a couple of pages that no longer get updated.

More about Softwolves

“Softwolves, what the heck is that?” you might ask. Well, mainly is the name I use for software I write, but when I decided to register my own domain, I thought that it would be a cool domain name, so that is why this site is now known as the Softwolves site. The name has its root back in my Commodore 64 days, when I thought that I should have a "cool" handle and group name to write my programs under, just like all the cool hackers/crackers did. Softwolves was the best I could come up with (and, believe me, if you knew the other ones I invented, you would agree...) But, it doesn't really mean anything... :-)

The fine print

These pages are copyrighted by Peter Krefting. Small flags drawn by Anders Carlsson. The banner logotype used on some of the subpages was created by the The Banner Creator and then slightly edited by me. The wolf is from a Corel Draw clip-art cd. Link buttons are believed to be free to be used for the linking purposes.

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