Journalist friends on Bluesky: how is Linux seen in your organisation? #press #journalism Do you have active internal users? Is it the default? Would be very useful to know!

Spoons (mental energy) available to an individual is rarely consistent. Changes in situation may increase or decrease spoons available. My spoon count changes drastically, rapidly. This is how I understand and adapt to my new energy levels! open.substack.com/pub/savingsp...

As AI is producing code, here's a primer on software engineering that I, a human software engineer, wrote. Each topic in this article is one I'd expect a junior developer to be aware of, and I'd expect a senior developer to be deeply familiar with open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

I'm doing a lot of different things, but have a low spoon count. How do I figure out how to spend my time? It starts by tracking. Relentless optimisation, saying "no", and understanding myself are core to making it seem like you've found 25 hours in a 24 hour day. open.substack.com/pub/savingsp...

Early start to a long day, as I head to Tekna's offices to host Oslo's NASA space apps challenge hackathon

There’s always something more you want to do. Some goal you’ve dreamed of achieving, some life you wish you could live. If only you had infinite time, you’d be able to do them all and more. Sadly, time and energy is not infinite. Join me to learn how to optimize! open.substack.com/pub/savingsp...

Any Norwegians know what user-agent you should be using for very infrequently requests against Yr for personal use only? All the docs point towards the user-agent being based on application or company names. What if you're making neither and just want some local weather data?

Last election, Norway’s biggest news site went down for 3 hours. This year, VG chose a new stack to make sure that didn’t happen again. Elections — powered by Astro and @svelte.dev

Learn what election night looks like for tech teams: thetechenabler.substack.com/p/norwegian-... And check out all the results: www.vg.no/valg/norge/2...

Part of @lobsters-feed.bsky.social's blog festival with the prompt is: What have you made for yourself? It turns out... A lot! Libs, programming languages, testing frameworks, servers, games, Chrome extensions. Even wrappers around version control systems. open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

First time in a long time, I've published a Derw release! Tooling around Derw has been rock-solid and reliable - like bach (test lib), coed (v-dom). There's many things I could improve. Returning to a project after a time away brings fresh inspiration and prioritisation. Blog post incoming!

Wanted: a fork of vscode that supports all the same extensions, but has absolutely 0 mention of Copilot or AI anywhere in the codebase.

Ever seen a website put every single individual character into it's own span? With no purpose for doing so? I have. AMA

Had fun making a little development http server. Why? Cause #python -m http .server doesn't have live reload or br/chunking of video, and every #nodejs dev server I found pulled in like a billion deps. But it's all easy with the stdlib. Gweld, the welsh for "see" or "watch": github.com/eeue56/gweld

Recently got asked about Schibsted’s Open Source office. OS is an important yet overlooked part of a company’s stack, and we support or encourage OS. We are a news media company, not a big tech company. So why and how do we contribute to open source? open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

There’s no fighting vibe-coding: a growing number of AI tools make it inevitable. It’s easier to give people a way to do it safely. I’ve set up Coder to safely run on our infra. It’s impressive journalist can do when given the right tools, in the right way. open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

I spend a lot of my time writing, reading, thinking. Often I write to solve problems: either my own problems, or to help others solve their own problems. Writing is a big part of my role. So, I'm writing a book, all about tech enablement / staff engineering! open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

I recently hosted a general “Data & AI” hackathon at Schibsted, for all and any employees who wanted to join. It got me thinking about how vibe-coding, and hackathon success. p.s I also created a vibe-coded visual programming language in 1.5 hours! open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

Compilers and language design event on April 28th. Three language creators (Gren, Sixten, Derw), and contributed to others (like Elm). Curious about parsers? Or performance of dependent types? Or tradeoffs of language design? Join us in person in Oslo, or online! www.tekna.no/en/events/in...

Can you spot fact or fiction in Norwegian, Swedish, UK or USA news? Try this quiz I've made! eeue56.github.io/heddwch/fact...

I spent some time mapping out personas I've interacted with in Open Source, and what drives their motivation to take part. Helpful people, trolls, lurkers, and more! #opensource open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

Randomized coffee chats between employees can help make everything easier. As an organisation changes, or grows, there’ll be people who don’t know each other. Collaboration is easier if you know each other, even if the coffee chat topic is unrelated to work. open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

If you've ever wondered how organised fact checking is done, I wrote an article about ClaimReview (fact checking's schema), how AI changes the use of ClaimReviews, and why social media removing the use of 3rd party fact checking is bad for society (in my opinion) www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fa...

Two constants on the BBC: 1) They will try to link any tragedy to British people, ignoring the rest of the humans who suffered 2) They will try to humanize and paint the royal family in a good light

In my various roles in different parts of the tech world, I see the tech industry struggling. Those training, implementing or creating LLMs have a duty to society. There must be push back, to help define how we as an industry want to work with AI #opensource open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

Ideas often are shut down when they don't fit every possible user. But some powerful words a creator can say is "if you don't want to use this, that's okay, someone else does" To detach from mega-corporations, we must invest in small sustainable products open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

I get annoyed when people take hardcore stances without understanding the context or the nuances in the stances of others. I love arguing. I do it at all the time, if I think it's worthwhile. But a good argument starts by holding back the emotional reaction, and focusing on understanding each other

Seen at midnight in Lima. A magical mission begins at a gas station

It is sad that Apple has been allowed to lock their ecosystem development tools behind having massively expensive devices. Very thankful for Phonegap (then Cordova) in the old days making it possible to avoid enabling Apple's developer hostility. Now to try out Capacitor with AppFlow to avoid 💰🍎

Excellent journalism there. NBC News, your bias is showing. And it's ugly. The article exists to manipulate readers into thinking there is a historical pattern of violence. It's Among Us. A variation of a game played worldwide by kids, with many names: Werewolf, Mafia.

Why oh why do all major browsers make it so hard to reliably test service-worker functionality?

I open sourced my personal mood tracker, which I used for many years to navigate through some tough times. It's by a developer, for developers. thetechenabler.substack.com/p/announcing...

Our custom achievements for advent of code: - The solution with the fewest characters - The solution with the shortest execution time - Whoever used a new language (to them) - Whoever used a randomly picked esoteric language - The most overly complicated (yet purposeful) language

@danabra.mov Hey! We're a company with multiple newsrooms, and we're looking into how to verify individual journalistic accounts. Is there a way for us to force a re-validation of a .well_known file or A-record in the case of a journalist leaving us?

Hosted a sustainability hackathon on the weekend, it was a bunch of fun. I have some other hackathons coming up, so I took it as a chance to write up how I facilitate during hackathons Oh, and my slides had dinosaur memes. open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

Good hackathon vibes: when everyone is so into the problem space on day 1 that they have to be strongly encouraged to leave by cleaning staff

Entered a codebase to fix a problem. Got flashbacks to 6 years ago when I fixed the problem, in that same codebase. Eventually realized my code was still there, between other changes that others in 6 years, it'd ended up in an unreachable path hidden by complex logic. Rewrite it all!

Today from inside a news company in the second most democratic country in the world, with the highest press freedom in the world: Scenes of tired, worried, horrified journalists and developers. I chose to fix what I could, code, infra, and teams. It gave peace til I finished work for the day. Sad

A day in the life of a "tech enabler": - Help devs out of a Git hole, and how to avoid it in future - Assist a team in making improvements to their infra - Improve some strategy slides - Nudge some hackathon planning - Onboard security engineers Can you guess which part I find hardest?

Simple joys in life: rewriting a charity's website from old and infected WordPress instance into static html and css in under 4 hours. No vulnerabilities, no outdated plugins, no need to run PHP. Can cached to the moon. Deploy process is "upload this folder", then it's done.

I made a starter pack for folks in the Elm and adjacent tree-named languages like Derw, or Gren! Give a 👋 if you want to be added to it! go.bsky.app/5FeUj4c

One of the thoughts you get after writing your 2nd or 3rd programming language is "oh, I know how to solve that problem, I'll just make a new language!" Narrator: it did solve the problem, but introduced 10 more for each problem solved.

Dear Safari: why do you choose to be the way that you are? It wouldn't be so bad, the weirdly incompatiable browser was cross platform so that those without buying into the expensive Apple ecosystem could fix the weird shit that Safari does.

Project I've daydreamed a lot about lately but don't have time for: turn graphs describing cache behaviour into VCL that can be deployed. Alternatively, a type-based VCL API that makes the flow easier to understand.

News sites have two patterns of traffic: one is day-to-day, generally predictable. The other is breaking news, which has way more traffic within a short time than usual. Breaking news is generally unpredictable. Disasters, people dying, etc. But some breaking news events which are predictable!

Elm Camp 2025 is in works - save the date! discourse.elm-lang.org/t/announcing... #elmlang

Here are two very useful resources for open-source scientific images/illustrations: 1. bioart.niaid.nih.gov This NIH-funded collection of high-quality, scientifically accurate vectors, icons, and brushes is freely available within the public domain. 🪰🦠🧪

Lesser known AppsScript feature: you can make "serverless" sites, complete with a cache, attached to a Google Sheet. It's a terrible idea, very slow. But it is possible. I built a whole news aggregator that way, and open sourced it. It's terrible! thetechenabler.substack.com/i/142898781/...

Chromebooks prove that you don't need a Macbook with the associated price tag to have a great device. I genuinely think my Chromebooks have been my best dev devices Cheap, runs Linux, good battery Best of all: instead of being an expensive device very few users have, it's matching spec with users