Early start to a long day, as I head to Tekna's offices to host Oslo's NASA space apps challenge hackathon
04.10.2025 06:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@derw-lang.com.bsky.social
Write about language design, perf, lifting people up, and pragmatism. I take joy from when things are done well, by people who enjoy doing them Creator of the Derw language. Leader of Tekna's developer network. Tech Enabler @ Schibsted Media
Early start to a long day, as I head to Tekna's offices to host Oslo's NASA space apps challenge hackathon
04.10.2025 06:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thereβs always something more you want to do. Some goal youβve dreamed of achieving, some life you wish you could live. If only you had infinite time, youβd be able to do them all and more.
Sadly, time and energy is not infinite. Join me to learn how to optimize! open.substack.com/pub/savingsp...
Any Norwegians know what user-agent you should be using for very infrequently requests against Yr for personal use only? All the docs point towards the user-agent being based on application or company names. What if you're making neither and just want some local weather data?
20.09.2025 16:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aha, that makes sense! We were a bit confused initially when comparing to NRK, because of default prognosis view - gave us a little panic when we didn't see our numbers matching :D But we spotted that quickly, one of the benefits of having multiple eyes and brains in the same room π
09.09.2025 21:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was most notable between 21:20 - 22:00 as the next waves of results were coming out piece by piece if that helps!
09.09.2025 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Of how far ahead we were? Our importer (and sites) was around 0.5-1% on average ahead of NRK and others. I'm not 100% sure why we were ahead, but our importer was pretty fast, and the numbers quickly updated client-side which might've helped. Very short TTL on the results API data
09.09.2025 18:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Election results data on VG.no The headline in Norwegian reads βStortingsvalget 2025β and a large visualization shows 87 seats for StΓΈre in red and 82 for Listhaug in blue.
Last election, Norwayβs biggest news site went down for 3 hours.
This year, VG chose a new stack to make sure that didnβt happen again.
Elections β powered by Astro and @svelte.dev
Learn what election night looks like for tech teams: thetechenabler.substack.com/p/norwegian-...
And check out all the results: www.vg.no/valg/norge/2...
Part of @lobsters-feed.bsky.social's blog festival with the prompt is: What have you made for yourself?
It turns out... A lot! Libs, programming languages, testing frameworks, servers, games, Chrome extensions. Even wrappers around version control systems.
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First time in a long time, I've published a Derw release!
Tooling around Derw has been rock-solid and reliable - like bach (test lib), coed (v-dom).
There's many things I could improve. Returning to a project after a time away brings fresh inspiration and prioritisation.
Blog post incoming!
Wanted: a fork of vscode that supports all the same extensions, but has absolutely 0 mention of Copilot or AI anywhere in the codebase.
16.08.2025 19:19 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ever seen a website put every single individual character into it's own span? With no purpose for doing so?
I have. AMA
Had fun making a little development http server. Why? Cause #python -m http .server doesn't have live reload or br/chunking of video, and every #nodejs dev server I found pulled in like a billion deps. But it's all easy with the stdlib.
Gweld, the welsh for "see" or "watch": github.com/eeue56/gweld
Recently got asked about Schibstedβs Open Source office. OS is an important yet overlooked part of a companyβs stack, and we support or encourage OS. We are a news media company, not a big tech company. So why and how do we contribute to open source?
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Thereβs no fighting vibe-coding: a growing number of AI tools make it inevitable. Itβs easier to give people a way to do it safely.
Iβve set up Coder to safely run on our infra. Itβs impressive journalist can do when given the right tools, in the right way.
open.substack.com/pub/theteche...
I spend a lot of my time writing, reading, thinking. Often I write to solve problems: either my own problems, or to help others solve their own problems. Writing is a big part of my role. So, I'm writing a book, all about tech enablement / staff engineering!
open.substack.com/pub/theteche...
I recently hosted a general βData & AIβ hackathon at Schibsted, for all and any employees who wanted to join. It got me thinking about how vibe-coding, and hackathon success.
p.s I also created a vibe-coded visual programming language in 1.5 hours!
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Youtube Premium (+ Google One / YT Music) has been absolutely worth it for me. Haven't seen an ad in years, but the creators still get revenue. I heard they even find Premium subscribers more valuable than ad revenue. Ads need to die as a concept (he says, while working in news media π¬)
24.05.2025 16:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I may have created a new toy language just for this talk
The idea being that the toy language is going to have an amazing tool suite, but be a relatively useless language.
So far: repl, auto-formatting, debugger, syntax highlighting, LSP
Compilers and language design event on April 28th. Three language creators (Gren, Sixten, Derw), and contributed to others (like Elm).
Curious about parsers? Or performance of dependent types? Or tradeoffs of language design?
Join us in person in Oslo, or online! www.tekna.no/en/events/in...
Can you spot fact or fiction in Norwegian, Swedish, UK or USA news? Try this quiz I've made!
eeue56.github.io/heddwch/fact...
I spent some time mapping out personas I've interacted with in Open Source, and what drives their motivation to take part.
Helpful people, trolls, lurkers, and more!
#opensource
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Randomized coffee chats between employees can help make everything easier. As an organisation changes, or grows, thereβll be people who donβt know each other. Collaboration is easier if you know each other, even if the coffee chat topic is unrelated to work.
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Thought about exactly this today.
I have an API I've been working on, reimplemented a couple of times while finding the solution both for code safety and performance.
I went for a walk, without intentionally thinking about it, and landed on a solution. Walks always help me. Showers, sleep too.
If you've ever wondered how organised fact checking is done, I wrote an article about ClaimReview (fact checking's schema), how AI changes the use of ClaimReviews, and why social media removing the use of 3rd party fact checking is bad for society (in my opinion)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fa...
Two constants on the BBC:
1) They will try to link any tragedy to British people, ignoring the rest of the humans who suffered
2) They will try to humanize and paint the royal family in a good light
Naming standards and file layout generally in React codebases is kind crazy. I sometimes wonder what kind of code editor the person who decided "one function one file" had. Files, files everywhere (I know it's related to code splitting)
04.01.2025 01:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In my various roles in different parts of the tech world, I see the tech industry struggling. Those training, implementing or creating LLMs have a duty to society. There must be push back, to help define how we as an industry want to work with AI
#opensource
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31.12.2024 22:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes! The src/render/interactiveQueries.ts file might be some good inspiration - it's a query builder on top of the collected data
github.com/eeue56/gobai...