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When I meet new people my interest in longboarding can easily pop up and like some kind of low budget door salesman I love extolling its virtues. One of the aspects, which I get most questions about, is my love for riding long distance where you do full day or multi-day trips.

Want to play the game before you read about the development? Play it here! Last weekend was the 41st incarnation of the Ludum Dare game jam and it was the first Ludum Dare I’ve been a part of. Me and Jonathan Smårs had penciled in the date a while back, planning on doing a game together. And we were able to book in a friend of Jonathans who d...

Giving away something you’ve made yourself is always an extra joy. As I mentioned in the last post I created a few gifts by hand last christmas, one was the spice rack written in the previous post and the two others were two puzzle cubes I made for my dad. I found both puzzles, called half cubes and eight cubes, online at the great blog diypu...

Figuring out what to get someone for a gift is always hard. And even when you do know what to get it might be hard to find one that you think they’ll like. I’m having that issue with a few gifts this year which made me think of last year when I went a different route. Because why buy when you can build something custom? The above picture is ...

In the last post I went into detail on how Camp Explorer is implemented and why. I figured I’ll write the last post as a reflection on what worked and what I’ve learned. Starting with the latter: Frameworks. A whole bunch of frameworks. There were quite a few firsts in this project, for example Node.js, Jasmine, Docker and Elasticsearch...

So in the last post I gave a quick overview of my improved Bandcamp search tool and I mentioned I would get into more detail in the next post. This is that post. Give the last one a quick read if you haven’t already. Before I go into the details of the new implementation I’m going to go over how the old one worked, so you know where I started o...

I’m a big fan of the music service Bandcamp. There is a lot raw talent there, creating all kinds of fascinating and awesome music. But digging through the cruft to find those diamonds is tricky, especially considering the wide assortment of styles and genres. And I’ve found that just using the simple search function casts too wide of a net. Even...

A few weeks after the last post I got quite a dramatic change in my daily work. More specifically, I got a fantastic full time consulting opportunity which I decided to take so then since I’ve been busy programming more standard business software. I really like the work (programming is fun!) but mostly it’s been a welcome change from working al...