Zines in Development

Underneath it all, I’m a geek with my hands deep in the code. These days I build in Elixir, because small, resilient communities and long-lasting systems beat hype cycles any day. I’ve shipped big platforms, spoken on continuous deployment before it was cool, and always leaned on open source as the only way to build something real.

Lego for grownups

⏱️ 4 min development

When I think about building software I try to see where we need to end up in order to help the customer right now and then work backwards from there. Because I am really bad at knowing what customers want I mock up something that is good enough to ge

The developers dilemma

⏱️ 16 min development

Writing software is an interesting process. It transforms abstract concepts, feature requests, vague ideas into something people can interact with. It is a modern way of making ideas real, tangible, visible and hopefully usable. This process is a str

SSH tunnel script(2)

⏱️ 2 min development

I work quite a bit with daemons on remote hosts that are normally not directly listening to the public internet. I use SSH tunnels a lot and had [previously used a simplistic script][1] to deal with it.

3 new destination markets in some months

⏱️ 4 min development

It's been a bit of a busy time lately as we launched three new platforms in the last time and that brought with it a lot of challenges. Fortunately it also pushed me to complete our migration to our new backend which is now entirely message driven and based only on the finest stuff one finds in t...

puppet basics (startup automation 2)

⏱️ 3 min development

In the last part of startup automation I talked you through the basics of configuring gitosis and the puppet config directory to make deployment of the config files really easy. Obviously we need some test clients and a working server now to play. I use parallels for local development and normall...