Lars Barkman
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Independent consultant · Solopreneur

Hi, I'm Lars Barkman.

I help enterprises design, develop, and operate digital solutions they can rely on — and I build the models and tooling behind it.

The writings are where I think in the open — catching myself in the act of thinking, testing a position, or arriving at an understanding I only thought I had.

The ventures span two areas, each approached as knowledge, tooling, and services — consulting the most direct of them, and the rest where I stop describing problems and start building.

The resume is the 20+ years that led here — the same instinct running through all of it: to understand how things really work, and to make them work better.

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Writings

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Notes on organizations, technology, and the full lifecycle of digital solutions — from tactical detail to strategic perspective.

  • Aug 15, 2026solopreneurship
    I Took Self-Hosting Too Far
    A follow-up to Self-Hosting My Repositories and Sites: the repositories and pipelines stay self-hosted, but serving the static output myself added a server to maintain without a matching sovereignty benefit. Wrangler narrows the Cloudflare dependency to a deployment target instead of a development platform.
  • Aug 14, 2026solution-design
    Revisiting My Documentation Platform Decision: Keeping Astro, Leaving Starlight
    After building documentation for the Digital Solution Lifecycle Model on Astro Starlight, I realized I wanted to own the presentation layer rather than configure around a theme. Revisiting that decision: keeping Astro as the framework, replacing Starlight with custom CSS, custom Astro components, and selected shadcn primitives where they are the right tool.
  • Aug 13, 2026larsbarkman.com
    Correcting the Record on Garrul
    Garrul's maintainer corrected three things in my comment system evaluation — a feature I marked as missing that was there all along, a gap since closed, and an operating cost I overstated. It came second, so the corrections land on the closest call in the post.

Ventures

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Everything I am involved in, in one view — two areas spanning the digital solution life cycle and enterprise operating, each worked as knowledge, tooling, and services.

  • Solution Architect (Interim)
    Stepping in as solution architect — designing the architecture, leading the technical decisions, and staying hands-on through delivery.
  • Enterprise Architect (Interim)
    Stepping in as enterprise architect — clarifying ownership, shaping the operating model, and making the structural decisions that unblock delivery.
© 2026 • Lars Barkman