Ever seen those images shown next to posts on Twitter, Slack or Facebook? Ever wonder where they come from? Me too! This plugin will create automatic cards for your (ReMark) at build-time. Announcing I am ready to announce my new Gatsby plugin, gatsby-plugin-social-cards. There are a few alternatives for Gatsby...

How to build a slim Docker container for your Go application using multi-stage images. I'm using Go 1.13 and the community module proxy to build the binary and Alpine as a base image. It adds a user and group instead of running as root. Dockerfile Be sure to replace "cmd/server/server.go" with your main file. FROM...

As part of my talk preperation for Aalborg Frontend Meetup, I was going to do a walkthrough of a new Gatsby site and use gatsby-source-meetup to import the upcoming events. Imagine my surprise, when I discovered that Meetup had stopped issuing API keys. gatsby-source-ical Gatsby has a wonderful collection of source...

Imagine that you're a CTO, a Tech Lead or someone that has to make an early technical decision that will effect the company for years to come. What programming language do you choose? The cost of abstraction Systems tend to have two types of complexity. Complexity from the business-domain, and complexity from the...

TLDR; See my CV See the code But why? I never much cared for pixel-pushing on screen. It has always been a necessary evil. But, print? Love that shit. I did my university reports in LaTeX, even the graphics and even though the errors were HORRIBLE, it remained a loyal TeX fan. So when I received a task at work to...

As you can see from my frontpage, I haven't blogged since 2014. Sorry about that. I'm learning new things while building this site, again again. It's currently running on Gatsby with Tailwind-CSS, GraphQL and a few plugins. I'm also playing around with react-pdf and JSON-Resume. My CV is currently generated with the...

As I do pretty much, every year. 2013 was spent learning new technologies. Here's a short list. Go: I taught myself a little bit of Golang and made a few small prototypes in it. I love the language so far, and while it is a bit restrictive, it's for my own good, as the code is easier to handle. PostgreSQL: While a...

I have a little VPS that hosts my blog and other various small projects. With a recent nginx update, my configuration files stopped working and I had to cut fastcgi-caching from my setup. I spent about 2 hours searching for this, so I am putting it up here - in case anyone has uses for it. This setup uses php5-fpm...

I am sure many would call me a Linux zealot, but I have been around the block, so to speak. I have used (on a daily basis), in order: Amstrad CPC, DOS, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Linux, Windows 2000, MacOS X, Windows 7. I could probably take the rest of this article...

As a kid in Iceland, I was always fascinated by all things technical. Be it light-switches at my grandmothers house or what is generally described as the idiot-box. I have always loved this stuff, and still do. When I was eight years old, I discovered the delightful world of computers and in retrospect, many of my...

I started hacking around with PHP in 1998 but never really considered it development until I learned what I used to consider "superior languages". A decade later, PHP is going strong and I am actually employed at a company where we do a lot of PHP (my opinions are my own). I've been wanting to implement something...

Please don't call me cheesy, but I am going to attempt to do some predictions for the year 2012 - like so many others. 2012 will not be the year of the Linux desktop. We're already there, but nobody noticed. The patent war will escalate even further and continue to halt innovation. Apple will release its first...