Scared of Normal
A topic that's been on my mind lately is the idea of simplicity. In a world that often values complexity and sophistication, simplicity can easily be »
How to Remember What You Know (Without Becoming a Full-Time Clerk)
Wait, you take notes? Over the years I have read a lot of articles and blog posts on note-taking and knowledge management. I'm an avid reader, »
Verify HTTP links with awesome_bot
When writing articles, blog posts, technical papers, README's etc, it's common to reference other web pages. Your content may not move, but there is no guarantee »
Github Actions and Terraform, revisited
This week we finally got to do some Terraform work again on a new project. The setup is simple, we have some Azure resources we want »
Extend your automated tests to the Shell
As last year, this is my contribution to the advent calendar we do over at Bekk. Hope you like it! Testing, testing "Testing shows the presence, »
Backing up API data to GitHub with Flat-Data
For the last 10 years or so I have used Trello as my preferred service to keep track of my reading. I wrote a blog post »
Deterministic systems with Nix
This is a cross-post of my contribution to this year's advent calendar we do over at Bekk. Hope you like it! Introduction Setting up reliable environments »
Containerize FluentMigrator for effortless db migrations
Continuing the containerization Last year I wrote about how to set up a local reverse proxy with nginx and mkcert via Docker-Compose. Being able to spin »
Cross post: Take Argo CD for a spin with K3s and k3d
For the second year in a row, my current employer Bekk has set out on a ambitious December journey: Bekk Christmas, 264 tech articles in 24 »
Local reverse-proxy with Nginx, mkcert and Docker-Compose
Good practices from the Twelve-Factor app When developing modern web application or services, the Twelve-factor app taught us that our services is completely self-contained and does »