About RasmusOS

I'm Rasmus — a software developer, and for the last few years those two words have been in service of a third: freedom. Not the vague kind, but a specific, compounding kind — the freedom to spend part of every year living and working from Japan, and to build a life where a laptop, a mat, and a long time horizon are all I really need.

The developer thread is the engine. I build software professionally and, increasingly, for myself — shipping products and small SaaS experiments on the side, learning the unglamorous parts of running something (pricing, positioning, actually finishing) as much as the code itself. Every project I ship is one more rep toward being able to work from anywhere, on my own terms, which is the whole point.

The aikido thread is where I learned what patience under pressure actually looks like. I train under Mark Jewkes (6th dan Aikido, 4th dan Iaido), and the discipline of the mat — showing up, falling, getting back up, refining the same technique for years — turned out to be the same discipline it takes to actually finish something in code, not just start it. This November I'll make my first trip to Japan — not a vacation, but an international Aikido seminar where eight of us from my dojo will join practitioners from all over the world, and it's already turning "living there part of the year" from a daydream into a plan with a budget.

These aren't side projects to each other. The code funds the trips, and the mat teaches the patience the code needs to actually ship. This site is where I write that story down as it happens — the wins, the failed experiments, and the slow, compounding progress toward Japan.