In this post(s) I'll describe how I created my personal blog with a fair amount of work to achieve simplicity. Read →

I recently helpt a student struggling with a web development assignment. Not surprisingly, it wasn't one specific thing that wasn't working with a clear question on how to solve that specific problem. There were errors in the web browser console, long functions with wrong indentation that made it all hard to understand. Read →

Approaching 40 years old and two years since I changed direction as a software developer, I conclude that the grass really is greener on the other side. Perhaps I should have jumped earlier. Git hooks are better than deployment weekends! Read →

I have an Asus RT-AC68U router at home. I’ve previously used the build-in update checker together with a notification script that ran on the router itself. Recently I noticed that I hadn’t got any update notifications in a long time, one of the downsides of silent failures. This is my custom code that looks for updates. Read →

Having switched from Windows to Mac quite recently, there is one application in particular that I’m missing – Notepad++. After trying Notes and Stickes, Brackets and a bunch of others, I had to rethink what I was actually using Notepad++ for and which characteristics I was appreciating the most. Read →