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:

• Boost @Uglesett@snabelen.no (2025-07-13):
  Public service announcement.
  (Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )
• Toot (2025-07-13):
  Finally got through #AEW #AllIn (SIX(!) HOURS). Must say I enjoyed it, although I did fast-forward quite a bit through the last match. Good thing that storyline is finally over, though. Because it is, isn't it? Please? Can we forget all about it and erase it from the history books?
• Boost @simontatham@hachyderm.io (2025-07-13):
  General reminder:
  The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
  Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
  You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
  Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
• Boost @dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be (2025-07-13):
  A new #Commodore #c64 is available for pre-order. It is #fpga based, featuring all the usual expansion slots and ports, hdmi, wifi, usb, dual sid capable, and more!
  https://www.commodore.net/
  #retrocomputer #retrocomputing
• Boost @futzle@old.mermaid.town (2025-07-13):
  Here's what I sent them:
  I don't use generative AI. I have a computer science degree so I understand how large language models work, and I don't believe that they have any value. They are just stochastic parrots. That they so beguile their users with vapid statistically-probable output is distressing.
  But LLMs have still changed my life, because the training models are forever scraping my personal web site, costing me bandwidth and money, violating the copyright on my original content without my consent. The datacentres that house LLMs consume vast amounts of energy and fresh water, an environmental disaster in the making.
  I expect that in the future, LLMs will once again change my life as I'm called to cover for an entire generation of workers who lack important life skills such as composition and critical thinking. I'm not exactly looking forward to it.

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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