About · Jonas Riis

one thing a year

now making: salve

The maker,
allegedly.

By day I design interfaces for a logistics company you have never thought about. By year I make one physical thing badly, then less badly, until December makes me stop.

This site is the accountability machine: if the current year's project is not up here by New Year's, I owe my sister a very public apology and her pick of my tools.

House rules

Rule 01

Ship by December 31

A thing that exists beats a plan that impresses. The deadline is the whole method.

Rule 02

One used-car budget

Cheap used car. If a hobby wants more, it wants to be a business, and that is a different website.

Rule 03

Hands before screens

The day job is pixels. The year project must leave sawdust, solder or soil somewhere.

Rule 04

Document, then brag once

Photos along the way, one honest write-up at the end, no build-in-public theater.

Correspondence

Letters, ideas, spare lumber.

jonas@annum.works

Project suggestions reviewed every December, over the good coffee.

Jonas Riis

One thing a year, since 2021.

jonas@annum.works

No newsletter. One thing is enough.