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When a company finds a product market fit - usually what you need to do is to double down on it - you push the gas pedal to the absolute bottom and you do everything to grow your company and the product as fast as possible.

The most valueble code in my repo, is the code I didn't write.

I've noticed that these cli tools are really starting to become popular and judging from the effort put into their respective offerings by the model vendors, it seems to be what they are all betting on now.

Back in 2017 the world of traditional websites was still dominated by monolithic traditional CMSes - The likes of WordPress, Drupal, Umbraco, WooCommerce, etc - This is the story of how gatsby.js became the love of my life and ultimately how it ended brea…

I've been using ChatGPT a bunch.

I feel like we never really settled debate of whether or not React was a library or a framework - hotly debated topic 10 years ago.

The past couple of years have been pretty intense.

What excites me most coming into 2022.

Recently, a new static site generator (SSG) arrived on the block called Astro.

Open for orders

We’re in the middle of a huge revolution.

I got into an ironic conversation the other day over the usefulness of having multiple languages in the world.

As I tweaked some last bits of code and added a few comments here and there, I realized I was getting excited.

By now, it's no secret that making mobile products has a unique set of design challenges.

I was reminded once again today how impenetrable the wall of things to do in life is.

I read somewhere that a bitwise left shift was a faster method of removing a fraction of a floating point number in Javascript than using parseInt or Math.floor().

LinkedIn is perhaps not known for their development efforts in the open source community.

Recently I won a Kindle Fire in a Hacker Buddy give away, sponsored by Tokbox.

I got into a conversation at work today about whether or not Node.js might become as popular and as ubiquitous as Ruby on Rails has become, or if it's just a fad.

I have this horrible habit, where when I have an idea, I usually start by ordering a domain.

I've been hooked on Node.js for the last 2-3 months.

I came upon this blog post by Seth Hoenig titled "Open letter to sites with annoying interfaces" yesterday.

We use git as our versioning tool at work and I've gradually been learning a few tricks on how to speed up my development time and time spent managing my repo.

I've been dealing with some unfortunate scroll performance issues at work lately, and to aid me in that task I've been using a handy CSS stress test bookmarklet made by Andy Edinborough.

Felix Geisendörfer, one of the node.js contributers has released what can only be dubbed as the ultimate guide to writing node.js applications.

A couple of months ago, Facebook started rolling out it's Timeline feature.

A new Hacker News-style social news site has been launched focused exclusively around Javascript.

Yesterday, Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox 10 beta, named Aurora.

When I was working at a small web development shop in Iceland, we developed a lot of applications.

Usually when designers are designing both print and website layouts, banner ads and other user interfaces, they need to have some text copy to work with.

Two fonts I like.

These two links are pretty good for helpful motivational tips, tricks and hacks.

My mom had a birthday gathering the other day (happy 52 mom).

Closures are functions that you define "on the fly" that have access to the same variables (the same [scope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_\(computer_science\))) as they get defined in.

I was setting up a new git repository (more on that in a later post) and I was using a wrong author, so the name was wrong on all the commits.

Good news.

This is awesome for all Vimsters out there.

I saw this post on Hacker News today and thought it might be interesting to the TextMate users out there.

An [equilateral triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilateral_triangle), in case you've forgotten, is a triangle composed of lines that are all of the same length.

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As a big fan of the text editor vim.

The [Vodafone website in Iceland](https://vodafone.is/ "Visit the Vodafone website") has just undergone a redesign.

I ran into this post on HN today.

Somebody tweeted this link out today: [1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future](https://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future).

Jakob Nielsen recently published this post, where he (and I guess his team) analyze why the Wall Street Journal mobile app gets such bad customer reviews.

I saw this article on Hacker News today.

Last month I went on a trip to the USA with a group of entrepreneurs from Iceland.

I found this blog the other day when trying to brush up on my vim knowledge.

If you like vim you probably know this already, but if you don't, here's how you change vim's tab size from the default 8.

I'm busy getting stuff done here in sunny California.