EventPuffin is an event-planning platform that makes it easy to coordinate with multiple people and invite guests. Problem domain Occasionally, I have to plan birthdays, trips or other social events with friends, family and sometimes work. The current landscape of planning events involves horrible platforms that...

I am of two brains. I need structure, but I hate planning. We had decided to stay in Iceland for a few weeks while visiting family and attending family gatherings. But, that left a lot of empty columns in the calendar, and people asking me if we have any plans. I shrugged and asked if they had any ideas. As time...

As an old school programmer, I thought I'd write down my journey into agentic AI and reflect on it. Why I love programming I've been programming for as long as I remember. My parents bought an Amstrad CPC 128k (yes, that's the RAM size) and I was immediatly hooked, at the age of 8. After getting bored of the...

Writing web applications in 2026 I've been creating web pages for a long time. I started with Microsoft Frontpage, graduated to plain HTML (think table layouts, font color, limited css) and then when PHP v3 dropped I started building web applications. These applications were all server rendered, and when Google...

Go (or Golang for some) may not be the best-in-class language for everything, but I think it's ideally suited for LLM coding. The community is special in a way that is a bit differrent than communities of other programming languages. There's a strong feeling of doing things "The right way", "The Go way", "Idiomatic"...

A few useful snippets while using MariaDB/MySQL. Copied from my notes. -- show slave status without your eyes bleeding SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G -- show master status SHOW MASTER STATUS\G -- processes show processlist; -- show users SELECT User, Host FROM mysql.user; --- show permissions SHOW GRANTS FOR 'username'@'host';...

I've been having a bunch of fun learning n8n during the holiday vacation. I've hooked it up so that when I write a blog post in my site, it's published to RSS and... Checks if the URL is already processed, abort if it is Content is summarized by an LLM (I'm lazy, sorry) Stored in a data-table Then occasionally, it...

Improving engagement of your online content can come down to how it's previewed on social-media services. If you're like me, and not keen on creating these open-graph images by hand for every post then you can generate them programmatically. Takumi Takumi is a tool that receives JSX and outputs images. It has...

Posts that have social-cards, or og-image attached get more views, and they look much better when shared. I'm creating a tool called md-social that was originally meant for posting my posts on Bluesky automatically, and registering the the post-id back in the markdown. But, I've since extended it to also generate...

Have you ever joined a new project and then spend an entire day setting up your developer-environment? Worked on a large project where one of the many tech-debts are that nobody updated the runtime for 10 years, and now nobody dares touch it? "What version of Java/Python/etc do I need to run the backend?" "How do I...

I've always been interested in technology, and not much else. When social networks emerged I was excited for all the technical content I'd have access to. Unfortunately big-tech has no interest in allowing us to control how we consume content. Facebook started out with allowing you to select all your interests so...

Some of the podcasts I enjoy during my bike-trip to work. Soft Skills Engineering Soft Skills are an underrated ability in engineers and Dave and Jamison deliver their advise in such a funny and helpful way that it's hard not to smile while listening to it. Syntax.fm Scott and Wes are really in touch with what's...