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Johan Halse. You know, the dude who runs the Internet.

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Posts
47 from 10 Feb 2018 to 4 May 2026
Posting
now and then (3 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 2

  1. Use string-backed enums
  2. The Sideprocalypse

2025 4

  1. Retrofuture
  2. David, please stop posting
  3. Average
  4. Pressing pause

2024 9

  1. The Spice
  2. Turbo considered harmful
  3. Baby unit tests
  4. Being a dick
  5. Parenting
  6. Churn
  7. Care
  8. I'm not holding it wrong, YOU'RE holding it wrong
  9. Concatenating text

2023 14

  1. The goat of tyranny
  2. The idle elite
  3. Headwind
  4. The best laid plans
  5. More like Hypescript amirite
  6. Ligma
  7. The Goldilocks Zone of Indirection
  8. "Analytics"
  9. A face arguing with a thick skull forever
  10. Updog
  11. Ha ha
  12. What to expect from your framework
  13. The Devil's glass
  14. Twitter didn't need fixing

2022 6

  1. I don't want Twitter to change
  2. Quake kitty
  3. The deafening roar
  4. Strong opinions, however they're held
  5. Hang your code out to DRY
  6. That's expensive!

2021 4

  1. Subsetting Material Icons in Rails
  2. Good, fast, cheap, pick three
  3. Gemini
  4. New Beginnings

2020 2

  1. Austerity
  2. Carbonavirus

2019 1

  1. EC2 is really complicated

2018 5

  1. Not invented here, dude
  2. Culture is searchable
  3. Fuck your bug fixes and performance improvements
  4. Smugness as a Service
  5. Twitter is actually pretty great, you guys