Bjarne Øverli, the Omarchy Core Team member who ships a new project every few days
Themes, a phone bridge, an Android launcher, a rhythm game and now a Matrix wallpaper: meet the Norwegian CTO who calls GitHub his sandbox.
Image: bjarneo/omarchy-matrix-theme README (GitHub)
“The first Matrix movie I saw over 100 times,” Bjarne Øverli wrote on X on October 29, 2026, sharing a digital-rain video wallpaper for Omarchy. A couple of hours later he followed up: “Yeah, I had to make this @omarchy theme.” The Matrix theme is only the latest drop from a developer who has shipped something new every few days this month, and whose name you have already seen in Omarchy itself.
Øverli is a member of the Omarchy Core Team. When DHH introduced the team, he described him as “the CTO of Unite AS and the creator of Aether, the visual theme builder we ship in Omarchy,” as well as of cliamp, the TUI music player, and credited him with turning the theming system “from a collection of configuration files into something far more systematic.” Ethereal, Hackerman and Lupine are his themes too. DHH’s verdict: “Bjarne has that rare combination of programmer rigor and visual taste that fits Omarchy perfectly.”
Away from the keyboard, he is a fisherman. “At the foot of Jotunheimen in Vågå, surrounded by green water straight from the glaciers, I caught this beautiful silver trout,” he posted on October 10, before closing the season: “6 months until the next fishing image.” The hobby shows up in his work too: White Rose, the company site his GitHub profile links to, lists Finnfisk, “a sport fishing guide for Innlandet,” next to cliamp, Flux and Detent. The site describes his work as “software engineering, infrastructure, DevSecOps, and practical technical direction.”
On GitHub, where his bio simply reads “Github is my sandbox.”, he has been active since 2012 and has 229 public repositories. And he takes theming seriously: “I have more than 1000 Omarchy themes,” he wrote on October 11, while testing a theme selector.
His recent projects say a lot about how he works now. “I don’t code anymore, but I miss looking at code. Yesterday I threw together a TUI that reminds me of Neovim, that watches the agents work,” he posted on October 28. Shoulder follows Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode and omp in your project, showing the file each agent reads or edits, the diff against your last commit and the commands it runs. According to the README, it only reads the agents’ session logs and never connects to the network.
He likes his tools to look the part. “These days, it’s so easy to create futuristic applications and TUIs. Make it look like your favorite hacker movie,” he said on October 27 when sharing Velo, a terminal speed test that measures latency, download, upload and bufferbloat on a cockpit dashboard, and follows the colors of your Omarchy theme. His day job gets the same treatment: st8ks is a Kubernetes desktop client. “I use it daily for work. I figured, these days, why not replace the lens and headlamp with my own software?” he wrote on October 30, the day v0.3.0 came out.
The phone is another favorite target. Flux connects an Omarchy desktop to an Android phone, an iPhone or a Mac to share files and clipboard, read notifications, control media and use the phone as a camera or microphone. “The Flux app for Omarchy is getting seriously good. It’ll soon be published to the app stores,” he said on October 11. Then came Detent, an Android home screen where your apps sit on a dial at the edge of the screen, with 23 Omarchy themes and their wallpapers. “All the OmaLaunchers are really cool, but I need something that does not try to steal my attention,” he explained on October 17.
Some of it is pure fun. “I love @omarchy. I love @BeatSaber. We can surely combine them?” he asked on October 20, and Omarchy Beat is the answer: a rhythm game for the browser and VR headsets where each Omarchy theme is a world and the music streams from Omarchy Radio. On October 24 he released Ethereal Nebula, a variant of his Ethereal theme with four 6K backgrounds, a looping video background and an intro video, and said he had also turned it into an unreleased game. “I am a sucker for tile-matching games, so I made my own version of Bejeweled with a story,” he wrote. It is not launched yet, but he said it will be ad-free, “but I might set it at a $2 cost.”
The Matrix theme ties it all together. According to its README, it ships five wallpapers and two endless video backgrounds rendered from one simulation of the digital rain, plus three animated intros, one of which types “Wake up, Neo…” before the code pours in and the Omarchy logo locks into place. And he keeps polishing Omarchy itself: this week he merged a new roadster starlight background for Ethereal in omarchy#16805, and omarchy#17082, which turns a switch from a still background to a video background into one smooth fade. Both are coming in the next version.
If his name rings a bell, that is also because of Preamp, the system-wide equalizer he launched on October 26. Between Core Team work, a day job as CTO and the fishing season, Øverli keeps turning his own needs into software and handing it to every Omarchy user.
