Hrafn Thorvaldsson

Here is a collection of articles, videos, audio and discoveries from the month of August: Read Link to heading It’s OK.

Everyone’s favorite company to dislike announced this week that their browser now has terms of use.

The first months of the new year has been such a busy time that it is only now that I’ve made time to sit down and go over the last year.

tl;dr: I’ve rewritten most of my adb related bash scripts and aliases that have accumulated over the years into a single tool that can be found here.

Another year, another reflection.

Link to full album Note: this post is a ’timetravel’ post, written in 2026 about something that happened in 2023, after a friend suggested to me that there weren’t enough hiking posts on the blog.

Good tools are those that help users accomplish something while mostly staying out of their way.

This post shows how to setup a fully functioning Android development environment (including Android Studio) on a Linux system by running a single command with the help of Ansible.

Today marks five years since I started working at Íslandsbanki, and as of today, I have resigned my position with the company.

Lets imagine that one day we receive a layout design for a new screen from the designer, and that it looks something like this: Super easy, barely an inconvenience The design also comes with some minor instructions.

I was recently looking at the kotlin-results library which describes it self as a “multiplatform Result monad for modelling success or failure operations”.

I am going on a sabbatical.

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Growing up in Iceland in the nineties, it was impossible not to hear about Eve Online, the game that was going to do what at the time sounded impossible.

I’ve officially released the first version of a library I have been working on for a while now, that carries the very unimaginative title ‘WakatimeClient’.

Last year I had a lot of free time to try out some of the things that had been lingering on my ever growing to-do list over the years and top among them was Huginn which describes it self as: “Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated…

The problem Link to heading While going through my backlog of various bookmarks, I came upon one CCC presentation titled ‘How Facebook tracks you on Android’ that sees researchers from the organization ‘Privacy International’ go through their findings on…

Today was a big day for the mobile team at Íslandsbanki as we launched our new Android banking application after 10 months of continous work, combining functionality from two of the banks previously developed mobile applications, a personal finance manage…

You may or may not know, but there exists a small island nation near the rim of the arctic circle bearing the name Iceland.

I am qutting Facebook Inc as of today.

Work in progress

During our later stay in Bilbao, at the tail end of our roadtrip around Spain, we stayed at Victor’s , a really nice local from Bilbao.

Link to album Last august, my girlfriend and I, along with friends, went on a trip to a place far north in Iceland that relatively few Icelanders have seen, Hornstrandir.

Link to album This month I jumped on a plane to one of these places that I had expected not to see anytime soon, that always seems so exotic when you see and read about it.

Link to album So over the last weekend I, my two cousins and their girlfriends went on a hike in the Icelandic country side.

Link to album It had been a bucketlist item for some time to hike a well known route here in Iceland called Laugavegur.

In the short story ‘Poseidon’, by Franz Kafka, the great god of the sea is said to be unhappy with his role of administrating all of Earths bodies of water.

A couple of days ago I read an interesting article by Pierre-Yves Ricau, an Android Software Engineer for Square, where he listed reasons for why Square has moved away from using Fragments in their Android products.

What follows is a fan fiction written by me in 2010 and takes place in the fictional universe of Eve Online “Damn it!”.