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!

Understanding changes in mental energy capacity 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 under...

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!

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Software engineering primer for non software engineers With AI providing a route for people without software engineering backgrounds to produce code, I figured giving some context on the important parts of software engineering would be useful.

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

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Tracking value for your effort Spoons are a representation of energy available to each person. To use spoons more effectively, insight into how spoons are being used can help optimise high-reward tasks.

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.

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

Helping others save spoons Time management is hard. Effective use of time on things you enjoy or you benefit from can really help to make dreams reality. Even more so if you're low on daily spoons - a metaphor for energy. I'm l...

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?

Aha, that makes sense! We were a bit confused initially when comparing to NRK, because of default prognosis view - gave us a little panic when we didn't see our numbers matching :D But we spotted that quickly, one of the benefits of having multiple eyes and brains in the same room 😁

It was most notable between 21:20 - 22:00 as the next waves of results were coming out piece by piece if that helps!

Of how far ahead we were? Our importer (and sites) was around 0.5-1% on average ahead of NRK and others. I'm not 100% sure why we were ahead, but our importer was pretty fast, and the numbers quickly updated client-side which might've helped. Very short TTL on the results API data

Election results data on VG.no The headline in Norwegian reads “Stortingsvalget 2025” and a large visualization shows 87 seats for Støre in red and 82 for Listhaug in blue.

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

Norwegian Elections and news tech preperations Last election, Norway’s biggest news site (VG) went down for around 3 hours. This time, we made sure it didn't.

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...

Something I made for myself - hiraeth, gobaith, and derw There are two personality traits I value highly in myself: the desire to do things correctly, and the desire to be pragmatic.

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.

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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

Schibsted's Open Source office Open Source is an important yet overlooked part of a company’s stack, and our office is dedicated to supporting or encouraging open source. We are a news media company, not a big tech company. So why ...

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?

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Running a vibe-code platform (Coder) on your own infrastructure Non-devs are vibe-coding programs, without any knowledge on how to read or write code. There’s no fighting it: the growing number of AI tools make it inevitable. Instead, it’s easier to safely give pe...

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.

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Announcing: Egoless Engineering, a tech enablement handbook 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 at Schibsted....

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!

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Hosting a vibe-coding hackathon 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.

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!

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Youtube Premium (+ Google One / YT Music) has been absolutely worth it for me. Haven't seen an ad in years, but the creators still get revenue. I heard they even find Premium subscribers more valuable than ad revenue. Ads need to die as a concept (he says, while working in news media 😬)

I may have created a new toy language just for this talk

The idea being that the toy language is going to have an amazing tool suite, but be a relatively useless language.

So far: repl, auto-formatting, debugger, syntax highlighting, LSP

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!

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Personas in open source communities Open source is the collective energy of a shared interest in a topic. Some will be there because it's part of their work. Others out of personal interest. What are the people involved motivated by? An...

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

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Coffee chats: getting to know an organisation Randomized coffee chats between employees can help make everything a little easier. It makes collaboration easier if you know each other, even if the coffee chat topic is unrelated to work. Here's how...

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.

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Thought about exactly this today.

I have an API I've been working on, reimplemented a couple of times while finding the solution both for code safety and performance.

I went for a walk, without intentionally thinking about it, and landed on a solution. Walks always help me. Showers, sleep too.

How fact checking works, AI's impact, and why removing fact checking from social media harms society This is a special article, inspired by Meta's removal of 3rd party fact-checking in favour of community notes. First we'll talk about how fact checking works, then AI's impact, then finally discussing...

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)

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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