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Improving your privacy online, part 2 - the VPN

12 Apr 2020

An additional way to bolster your privacy online, on top of the things described in part 1, is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network).

Improving your privacy online, part 1

03 Mar 2020

We are constantly being tracked online. Usually by marketing organizations who want to target you with personalized ads in order to get you to buy more things or sell the information collected about you to others. There is also the possibility that you are being tracked by other entities who want to know what your opinions are on specific topics or where your political sympathies lie.

FOSDEM 2020 - My favourite chaos

01 Mar 2020

The first weekend of February I visited the the FOSDEM conference for the third year in a row.

NDC conference London 2017

19 Feb 2017

In January I visited NDC London along with a colleague from Betsson and I must say that it is one of the better conferences I have visited. The conference was situated in the London ExCEl which is a great venue although a bit off the beaten path.

Install Raspberry Pi OS using system tools on OS X

06 Jan 2016

You don’t need special tools in OS X to get started with the Raspberry Pi. The system tools will do the job of flashing a Raspberry Pi operating system to an SD card without any hassle.

Clean up Elasticsearch indices with Curator

25 Dec 2015

At Tradera we needed to collect more granular data about our users than we could get from Google analytics in order to try to understand the behaviour, needs and painpoints of visitors to our site. To achieve this we started to publish events when users completed certain actions on our site like searching for products, placing bids and any action that could be considered a conversion. We would then publish these events to a message queue and feed them into a Elasticsearch cluster.

Build Stuff 2015 Vilnius

04 Dec 2015

In late November the development team from Tradera visited the Build Stuff conference in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Berlin Buzzwords 2015

07 Jun 2015

Earlier this week I had the privilege of visiting the sixth version of the Berlin Buzzwords conference along with two other colleagues from ebay Sweden. The conference was held at the Postbahnhof venue in the Friedrichshain area of Berlin, very close to the Ostbahnhof railway station.

Sudo on windows?

31 Mar 2015

If you wish to run a command line command on a Windows OS that requires elevated privileges you have to start a new command prompt with administrator privileges by right clicking it and clicking “run as administrator”. In a Unix-like OS you simply type “sudo” before the command, enter your password, and run it - much simpler. I decided to play around and see if I could introduce the sudo command to Windows.

Automate setting up your Windows development machine with boxstarter

22 Feb 2015

This post will introduce you to automated setups of a Windows system using the excellent Boxstarter tool.

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