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Software Engineer & CTO based in Oslo, Norway.

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Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Needing to reflect back on SOAP wasn’t on my bingo card. «SOAP, despite its verbosity, understood something that MCP doesn’t: machine-readable contracts matter». julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-dis...

19.02.2026 13:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Digital sovereignty in Europe: what still lies ahead - Nextcloud Digital sovereignty is no longer theoretical. Europe sees momentum, but real independence depends on procurement and political will.

«Digital sovereignty is not about replacing Microsoft or Google overnight. […] The goal is freedom of action: the ability to switch, negotiate, and operate without geopolitical single points of failure»

nextcloud.com/blog/digital...

07.02.2026 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America? Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks Comment  America's cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in the digital world.…

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

04.03.2025 02:17 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 2
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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King o...

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds berthub.eu/articles/pos...

23.02.2025 21:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Homepage | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

A great list of European service providers you can use in case you're worried about the big US players and recent changes.

european-alternatives.eu

18.02.2025 13:03 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Meninger: Tidligere «Alt-Right»-leder: Hat og nedlatenhet mot kvinner er en voksende trend. Utallige blogger og «mannosfære»-nettsider forgifter sinnene til unge menn over hele verden.

Hør på dem som har sett filmen før. Og enda mer på dem som var med i filmen, men har skjønt at de tok feil.

17.02.2025 14:22 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Sunsetting Create React App – React The library for web and native user interfaces

Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework.

We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework.

react.dev/blog/2025/02...

14.02.2025 18:44 👍 574 🔁 103 💬 32 📌 74
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AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."

our hugely over-valued, energy-sucking bullshit machines still curiously can't do the basics

11.02.2025 16:16 👍 265 🔁 89 💬 11 📌 4
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tough call

23.12.2024 14:37 👍 12063 🔁 1026 💬 108 📌 79
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Gamers (read: salty men) on the internet complaining about the newly announced Witcher IV having a female lead 🍿😫 Same people who probably complained about the best game ever made: Last of Us Part II. Me: looking forward! Ciri was more of a main char in this universe than Geralt ever was! 🤘

14.12.2024 11:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lesehest 2022 Bli med på Lesehest 2022! En ny bok om utvikling og systemutvikling annenhver måned for hele 2022.

Originally known as Lesehesten 2022, we now refer to it as Season 1 😂 blog.variant.no/lesehest-202...

11.12.2024 12:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The book Flow Architectures by James Urquhart lying on a work desk next to a coffee cup and a coaster pad with the logo of Variant on it.

The book Flow Architectures by James Urquhart lying on a work desk next to a coffee cup and a coaster pad with the logo of Variant on it.

Next up in our company book club is Flow Architectures. Been looking forward to this one! We record every book club meeting as a podcast (in norwegian): lesehesten.transistor.fm 🎉 Interested in reading along and maybe joining the podcast next time? Let me know!

11.12.2024 12:27 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Saying you do green computing when in reality your boss told you to get the cloud bill down is the ultimate devops virtue signaling

27.11.2024 08:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fjordkraft-feil: «Samtykk eller dø» Flere fikk nok frokosten i halsen da de skulle gjennomføre et «samtykke» i appen til strømselskapet Fjordkraft onsdag.

Consent or DIE. Privacy-by-design can feel like a burden at times but remember to not rant in placeholder text because it might just hit production 😂 www.vg.no/nyheter/i/LM...

20.11.2024 13:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watched (the orginal danish) "Speak No Evil" movie last week. Amazing as a suspense film, but most of all an amazing social commentary. Reflecting on these books made me remember the movie again and I would recommend people to watch it!

19.11.2024 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm opening two packs a day in the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket app 😆 Addicted! Nothing beats the feeling of getting those holo cards!

19.11.2024 20:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I might have to reread On Tyranny because the world was a different place when I first read it 😓. Antisocial is another worth-while read for insight into alt-right/alt-light movements and how they think. Knowledge is power.

19.11.2024 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Few weeks ago I found bluesky a bit underwhelming, but now the floodgates have opened and I’m really starting to enjoy the feeds 🤩

19.11.2024 17:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coming soon: X Health Insurance! Don't worry, they will already know what to charge you 🤝

19.11.2024 07:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of AI saying sorry for not just saying "NO" when asked about something that wasn't feasible to do.

Screenshot of AI saying sorry for not just saying "NO" when asked about something that wasn't feasible to do.

AI just never knows when it's time to give up. It will tell you "You can achieve what you want by refactoring your whole application into 15 microservices and writing these 16 bash scripts to put in your CI/CD pipeline" instead of just saying "No, that's not possible/feasible".

18.11.2024 14:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

nå kjører jeg heller på litt andre veien og satser på at alle forstår at "e du fette dum?" betyr "jeg er litt uenig med utsagnet ditt"

18.11.2024 14:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Har gitt opp å fremstå trivel med dialekt når "ka han sir te godt?" nitti prosent av tida føre til en "hæ?" tilbake her i Oslo...

18.11.2024 13:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I write about tech and software engineering I feel it’s natural to post in english.

Når jeg skriver om norsk politikk er det jo mest naturlig å poste på norsk.

Når æ blir irritert så skriv æ dialekt, uansett plattform…

18.11.2024 12:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Was finding it hard to think about reasons to use this over parameter passing in normal application code, but I guess Logging could be one of those reasons 🤔

17.11.2024 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looking forward to spend five minutes the following morning reading about how it went, just to instantly forget this ever happened right after…

14.11.2024 20:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SOPS and k9s being "adopt" in the Thoughtworks radar is the most legit thing ever: www.thoughtworks.com/radar/tools *stamp of approval*

14.11.2024 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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State of JavaScript 2024 Take the State of JavaScript survey

Now is the peak time to release a State of state reports report!

survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

13.11.2024 13:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finally I can use the OIDC Auth Server as an URL shortener: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet...

13.11.2024 13:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A badge saying «I'm speaking at Booster conference 2025 Why you should put secrets in
Git Nikolai Norman Andersen»

A badge saying «I'm speaking at Booster conference 2025 Why you should put secrets in Git Nikolai Norman Andersen»

Always a pleasure visiting Bergen and attending Booster Conference. See you there?

12.11.2024 06:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't play horror games because I get stressed. Just reached the credits of the #Cyberpunk2077 Phantom Liberty DLC and the game literally turned into a Aliens-type horror game at the end! 💀🥵 Touché CDPR, you got me...

11.11.2024 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0