Victor Blomqvist's blog

Scheduled GitHub Actions are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless.

The other day my colleague noted that it feels like our Renovate bot triggers much more often in the repos he manages than before.

Whenever I ask an AI for help on a nontrivial database task I'm always extra careful.

For the last twenty years, we've lived in a "golden age" of hobbyist coding.

This is a write-up of the first 18 years of history of Pymunk.

A couple of years ago, in 2023, Microsoft released a new feature called Dev Drive, which is supposed to speed up common developer tasks.

I have been on the recruiting side a fair number of times and I hope to cover some common pitfalls and advice to help you land a nice job!

Every day I bike to work - a 35-45min ride each direction.

Have you ever wanted to reduce the disk space used by an Azure SQL database?

One of the classic bugs is the memory leak.

A tricky query to optimize is partial match of phone numbers, this post will walk through some options.

Do you also have the feeling AI advice often tricks you as much as it helps?

Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all.

The other day we had a AI hackathon day in the office, basically a do-whatever day as long as it was related to AI.

TLDR Content written in old school HTML CSS built on the minimal CSS framework Sakura CSS To avoid repeating imports, headers etc., the site has some custom JS.