I recently got an email from someone who had read my old rant about some of the downsides of Electron, who wondered if I could recommend any alternatives.

This post is a short summation of my response.

In short: For GUIs, I'd recommend wxWidgets / Qt –...

Fear and Loathing in the Air-conditioned Nightmare

A side project long in the making

Just as I got back home from running the Holmenkollen relay race with our team from work this past saturday, I checked my email – to find out that my lightning talk was accepted to this years JavaZone!

JavaZone, if you don't know, is the largest software...

Having developed with React for a while, and having used create-react-app to scaffold a few projects, I decided to check out the projects' issues a little while back.

Two weeks ago, version 3.0.0 was released, to which I contributed support for React...

Looking back, this year has been a pretty eventful one for me.

I've met many interesting new people, learned a bunch of new stuff and pushed myself both personally and professionally.

A recent tweet from Adam J. Kurtz made me take a quick inventory:

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A digital escape room experience

Back in October, I hosted a Hacktoberfest event at Bouvet's HQ here in Oslo.

As host, I also held a quick intro as well as a "crash course in open source".

In case you don't know, Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software,...

Adversarial knowledge transfer

This fall I had the pleasure of running a React/Redux-workshop three times internally at Bouvet, along with my colleague, Lars Dølvik.

It was immensely popular – in fact, I was told that all twenty spots for the first workshop were gone before the event...