andri.dk
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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Before I started my carrier in Software Development, I was a System- and Network Administrator. I used to setup web servers and managed my own little server room. I truly, do not miss upgrading operating-systems on live services or...
Finding the motivation to blog has always been hard for me. Sometimes, because I have nothing to blog about, and that's fair. But sometimes it is because I'm not on a computer with my Gatsby site setup, or I just want to write something...
At work, we use Microsoft Teams, and we used to (and sort of still) use Slack. I recently switched from a Macbook Pro to a Linux laptop (again), and what annoys me greatly is that when I "share screen/application" in the Slack or Teams...
In this series, we are going to setup continuous deployment on Github Actions that will deploy a full environment in the cloud. Then we will setup a scheduled action to tear it all down, if we're not using it. Part 1: Covers the...
Are you working from home? Here's a list of some great tools that you can use for free. If you have anything to add to the list, please give me a shout at @andrioid. Video Conferencing and chat Jitsi Meet Not quite as polished as some of...
Every year, or that was my plan back in 2013; I do a review of what technology I've been using during the year and reflect on my experiences. This year has been fun in many ways. I have been creating apps, websites, microservices and...
Ever seen those images shown next to posts on Twitter, Slack or Facebook? Ever wonder where they come from? Me too! This plugin will create automatic cards for your (ReMark) at build-time. Announcing I am ready to announce my new Gatsby...
How to build a slim Docker container for your Go application using multi-stage images. I'm using Go 1.13 and the community module proxy to build the binary and Alpine as a base image. It adds a user and group instead of running as root....
As part of my talk preperation for Aalborg Frontend Meetup, I was going to do a walkthrough of a new Gatsby site and use gatsby-source-meetup to import the upcoming events. Imagine my surprise, when I discovered that Meetup had stopped...
Imagine that you're a CTO, a Tech Lead or someone that has to make an early technical decision that will effect the company for years to come. What programming language do you choose? The cost of abstraction Systems tend to have two...
TLDR; See my CV See the code But why? I never much cared for pixel-pushing on screen. It has always been a necessary evil. But, print? Love that shit. I did my university reports in LaTeX, even the graphics and even though the errors...
As you can see from my frontpage, I haven't blogged since 2014. Sorry about that. I'm learning new things while building this site, again again. It's currently running on Gatsby with Tailwind-CSS, GraphQL and a few plugins. I'm also...
As I do pretty much, every year. 2013 was spent learning new technologies. Here's a short list. Go: I taught myself a little bit of Golang and made a few small prototypes in it. I love the language so far, and while it is a bit...
I have a little VPS that hosts my blog and other various small projects. With a recent nginx update, my configuration files stopped working and I had to cut fastcgi-caching from my setup. I spent about 2 hours searching for this, so I am...
I am sure many would call me a Linux zealot, but I have been around the block, so to speak. I have used (on a daily basis), in order: Amstrad CPC, DOS, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Linux,...