Virtual home of a geek

Expect and design for failures

When we are talking about scalability, we're in most cases referring to performance and effectiveness of the applications which we choose to deploy or build. New features are added, bugs is resolved and issues with performance gets fixed. With every release, things get better.

Competition in education

Do you remember your first math test? Do you remember how hard you studied for it, in order to get as many points as possible? Have you ever asked yourself why you did it and what you got out of all that hard work?

Detta ska bli mitt 2018

Nyårslöfte är överskattat. Det är sällan någon som får höra mina löften ändå, så jag skriver ner mina mål för 2018 här istället. Detta året kommer jag att vara den största egoisten någonsin, på ett positivt sätt såklart. Det kommer att handla om mig,

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrencies that sings another kind of tune

What is a cryptocurrency? There are some cryptocurrencies that aren't built to be a "buy-a-coffe for cryptocurrency". They have another purpose than a peer2peer transaction of "money". They have one thing in common tho, they are using the same concept

Bitcoin

Three years later, my investment in cryptocurrency.

At the time when Dash was called Darkcoin Three years ago, I invested 2000 SEK (just for fun) into a cryptocurrency that at the time were called Darkcoin, it's now called Dash. They changed the name later on because people associated it with Darkweb

I love cloud-init, almost at all times

Something else first I've implemented HTTPS to the site, using Let's Encrypt. :) The problem that I'm facing I love cloud-init and the idea of bootstrapping a node with a small config at it's first stage. But there are some issues. It's actually not really

Icinga

A monitoring platform that scales

At the company I work for, we have a NOC department that is manned 24/7/365. Our NOC monitors a lot of network equipment, and their system needs to be up and running all around the clock. Our old platform where built on

I'm hosting a TOR-relay

For the first time ever, I'm hosting a public TOR-relay. Actually, I host two. It all happened one late night. I had spent the night reading a bunch of articles about mass surveillance. Yes, old news. But still. I decided to put up one