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# Christofer Sandin’s personal digital garden

“Hey, my name is Christofer Sandin. I’m a former [athlete](/athletics), running a design and technology company called [Republic Factory](https://www.republic.se/en) in Göteborg, Sweden. Republic recently joined [99x](https://99x.io/no/). This is my personal site.”

     ![](/assets/images/portrait.png) 

This site came to life back in 2002 when I trained and competed in [athletics](/athletics). Although I never reached the biggest arenas and the Olympics, like a few people I trained with, I could travel the world, compete in many different places, and keep myself in pretty good shape. That's also where I met my wife.

Today, the site is slowly transitioning into a personal site where I [write and think about digital work](/texts).

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## An experiment in style. Set your preferred theme and color, from high fidelity to low.

There are [four different themes](/themes), each with three different color settings, white, color and black, on this site. You decide which one you prefer with the icons in the top center.

- The classic mode, the C, represents the old serif based site with some textures. The font in this theme is [Charter](https://practicaltypography.com/charter.html), and the whole look is more sophisticated.
- The M is the Monospace theme, where the content is displayed using the fixed-width font [Commit Mono](https://commitmono.com/) and gives it the feel of a text-based computer interface.
- The S, without serifs, represents the Swiss design-inspired theme set in the [Inter](https://rsms.me/inter/) font. This plays on the fact that Sweden and Switzerland sometimes get mixed up in global references. So instead of portraying Swedish white, clean minimalism which we are famous for, I chose a grid and type-inspired Swiss design.
- The last icon is an 8 representing the [8-bit font used on old IBM PCs](https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_8x16). A 286 PC running DOS was my introduction to computers as a kid, and something about that font makes me feel cozy inside.

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## Working with the Internet

I started using the Internet when you still had to dial an ISP with a modem before the web was even a thing, and IRC was the way to talk to other people on the net. Back then, you also called Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and enjoyed the great-looking ANSI graphics while downloading things. That was when the web was born, and I started to create websites.

01♥ - Check out [binarypassion.com](https://www.binarypassion.com) to nerd out on text mode graphics.

I taught web design in 1998, and since then, I have worked with the web professionally in one way or another. I had it as a side hustle while [studying for my master's](/work), alongside my athletic career, and then for real since 2006 when I went full-time. First as a freelancer and then running Republic together with colleagues.

To this day, this is my professional life, and I couldn't be happier with that choice.

## Reading books

I read occasionally, and I have put up [a summary of a few books](/books) that I thought were worthwhile. The subjects range from personal growth and development to running a business. There are also a few titles that are more of a general interest if you have a curious mind regarding technology, economy, and logic.

## The Journal

During my athletics career, I wrote quite a bit on the web, but I've written next to nothing in the last few years. I keep the old entries online in the [archive](/journal), mostly for my own amusement.

## Photos

I have a couple of [photos](/photos) from the Track and Field days, but I haven't posted many photos online. I keep my Flickr account around, though.