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andri.dk
Andri Óskarsson
I'm a computer nerd from Iceland, living in Denmark. I try to write about software, learning, computers and technology.
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Writing web applications in 2026 I've been creating web pages for a long time. I started with Microsoft Frontpage, graduated to plain HTML (think table layouts, font color, limited css) and then when PHP v3 dropped I started building web...
Go (or Golang for some) may not be the best-in-class language for everything, but I think it's ideally suited for LLM coding. The community is special in a way that is a bit differrent than communities of other programming languages....
I've been having a bunch of fun learning n8n during the holiday vacation. I've hooked it up so that when I write a blog post in my site, it's published to RSS and... Checks if the URL is already processed, abort if it is Content is...
A few useful snippets while using MariaDB/MySQL. Copied from my notes. -- show slave status without your eyes bleeding SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G -- show master status SHOW MASTER STATUS\G -- processes show processlist; -- show users SELECT...
Improving engagement of your online content can come down to how it's previewed on social-media services. If you're like me, and not keen on creating these open-graph images by hand for every post then you can generate them...
Posts that have social-cards, or og-image attached get more views, and they look much better when shared. I'm creating a tool called md-social that was originally meant for posting my posts on Bluesky automatically, and registering the...
Have you ever joined a new project and then spend an entire day setting up your developer-environment? Worked on a large project where one of the many tech-debts are that nobody updated the runtime for 10 years, and now nobody dares...
I've always been interested in technology, and not much else. When social networks emerged I was excited for all the technical content I'd have access to. Unfortunately big-tech has no interest in allowing us to control how we consume...
Some of the podcasts I enjoy during my bike-trip to work. Soft Skills Engineering Soft Skills are an underrated ability in engineers and Dave and Jamison deliver their advise in such a funny and helpful way that it's hard not to smile...
import video from "./live-reloading-golang.mp4"; I was playing around with server-rendering, and couldn't really find a good workflow for restarting the Go server, generate templates and generate CSS on changes without manually reloading...
How I envision we can bring as much value as possible out of a software team
Or how my home probably has better network than the office.
How I built my new site with Astro
An environmental-variable is a way for the environment (your operating-system, or shell) to share information with future processes. Some ENV vars are global (and set by the OS), others are only useful in a certain context. You could be...
Hosting doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. I'll show you how to host a static site for $6/mo on DigitalOcean (ref link). Be warned, this is a bit technical and you will need to type some things into a terminal. I will explain...