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Write about language design, perf, lifting people up, and pragmatism. I take joy from when things are done well, by people who enjoy doing them Creator of the Derw language. Leader of Tekna's developer network. Tech Enabler @ Schibsted Media
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Can you spot fact or fiction in Norwegian, Swedish, UK or USA news? Try this quiz I've made! eeue56.github.io/heddwch/fact...

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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 open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

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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. open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

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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) www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fa...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

In my various roles in different parts of the tech world, I see the tech industry struggling. Those training, implementing or creating LLMs have a duty to society. There must be push back, to help define how we as an industry want to work with AI #opensource open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Ideas often are shut down when they don't fit every possible user. But some powerful words a creator can say is "if you don't want to use this, that's okay, someone else does" To detach from mega-corporations, we must invest in small sustainable products open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I get annoyed when people take hardcore stances without understanding the context or the nuances in the stances of others. I love arguing. I do it at all the time, if I think it's worthwhile. But a good argument starts by holding back the emotional reaction, and focusing on understanding each other

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Seen at midnight in Lima. A magical mission begins at a gas station

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

It is sad that Apple has been allowed to lock their ecosystem development tools behind having massively expensive devices. Very thankful for Phonegap (then Cordova) in the old days making it possible to avoid enabling Apple's developer hostility. Now to try out Capacitor with AppFlow to avoid 💰🍎

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent journalism there. NBC News, your bias is showing. And it's ugly. The article exists to manipulate readers into thinking there is a historical pattern of violence. It's Among Us. A variation of a game played worldwide by kids, with many names: Werewolf, Mafia.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Why oh why do all major browsers make it so hard to reliably test service-worker functionality?

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I open sourced my personal mood tracker, which I used for many years to navigate through some tough times. It's by a developer, for developers. thetechenabler.substack.com/p/announcing...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Our custom achievements for advent of code: - The solution with the fewest characters - The solution with the shortest execution time - Whoever used a new language (to them) - Whoever used a randomly picked esoteric language - The most overly complicated (yet purposeful) language

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

@danabra.mov Hey! We're a company with multiple newsrooms, and we're looking into how to verify individual journalistic accounts. Is there a way for us to force a re-validation of a .well_known file or A-record in the case of a journalist leaving us?

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Hosted a sustainability hackathon on the weekend, it was a bunch of fun. I have some other hackathons coming up, so I took it as a chance to write up how I facilitate during hackathons Oh, and my slides had dinosaur memes. open.substack.com/pub/theteche...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Good hackathon vibes: when everyone is so into the problem space on day 1 that they have to be strongly encouraged to leave by cleaning staff

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Entered a codebase to fix a problem. Got flashbacks to 6 years ago when I fixed the problem, in that same codebase. Eventually realized my code was still there, between other changes that others in 6 years, it'd ended up in an unreachable path hidden by complex logic. Rewrite it all!

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Today from inside a news company in the second most democratic country in the world, with the highest press freedom in the world: Scenes of tired, worried, horrified journalists and developers. I chose to fix what I could, code, infra, and teams. It gave peace til I finished work for the day. Sad

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

A day in the life of a "tech enabler": - Help devs out of a Git hole, and how to avoid it in future - Assist a team in making improvements to their infra - Improve some strategy slides - Nudge some hackathon planning - Onboard security engineers Can you guess which part I find hardest?

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