Jackdaw's Nest · Jackdaw's Nest

This is just minimal personal website and a blog. Just like the old days.

I'm an IT professional, part-time stay-at-home dad with two kids. I love bicycles and good music. I've been making websites since 1996.

Contact

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Blog Posts

2024-11-14 New Blog with Gemini Support
2024-10-22 Almost There with Wrote
2024-10-20 Getting to Know the Gemini Protocol and Gemtext
2024-10-11 End of the Week
2023-12-15 @naakka at Threads.net
2023-09-11 Chrome Hardware Acceleration Issues in Ubuntu 22.04
2023-08-25 Fixing Session Fixation
2023-08-21 Blogging in Context
2023-08-21 Finally Getting a Respberry Pi
2023-08-20 Moving on to Stenope
2022-07-27 Instagram's New Feed
2022-06-23 AWS RDS Automatically Starts Stopped Instances
2022-06-23 403 Errors Fixed
2022-04-14 AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Dump Environment Variables to .env File
2022-03-21 History of RSS and Atom
2022-03-17 Raspberry Pi as an iPad Accessory
2022-03-10 More Reasons to Run a .onion Site
2022-03-10 Enable a TOR Hidden Service for a Clearnet Website
2022-03-10 Enable a Hidden Service for a Clearnet Website
2022-03-09 CloudWatch Logs and Elastic Beanstalk
2022-03-08 Building a Server Side Rendered Symfony App
2020-05-04 Wealth to Scale
2020-04-20 Surly Steamroller - Fixed Gear
2020-03-24 Playing Around with Kindle
2019-12-12 Enjoying the Winter with my Steamroller
2019-11-16 Surly Steamroller
2019-11-16 Playing Around With Lambda@Edge
2019-06-14 The age of the Influencer has peaked. It’s time for the slacker to rise again
2019-04-05 My New Bike Project: Peugeot PH8
2018-09-13 Could Someone Explain the "Link Tax" to Me?
2018-05-25 I Don't Know What to Think of GDPR
2018-05-25 It's GDPR time!
2018-03-20 How Fast is AMP?
2018-02-01 Web Manifest Problems and Content Security Policy
2017-11-28 Utopia by Björk
2017-11-28 Welcome to Helsinki
2017-10-05 Just Got My Hands on This
2017-10-05 Google's Oct 4th Big Event
2017-09-13 Ember Frustration, Data Relationships
2017-09-13 The State of Facebook Instant Articles
2017-09-13 Don't Use includes(), use indexOf() Instead
2017-09-13 Ember "No model was found for `user-role?`"
2017-09-13 Dear Google, Why Don't You Know What Kind of Music I Like?
2017-09-07 Can't Wait for The National's next Album
2017-03-07 Easy Trick to Show Translation only if it Exists in Symfony
2017-01-13 Searching
2017-01-09 Winter Fog
2016-12-15 AWS London Region Open
2016-11-30 AWS Elastic Beanstalk: First Impressions
2016-11-24 Telegraph by Telegram
2016-11-10 Why ContentEditable is Terrible - Medium Perspective
2016-11-10 Fresh Coffee from Slurp
2016-11-09 Winter is Here
2016-11-08 Google Search Going Mobile First
2016-11-07 Golden Tree
2016-11-04 Mobile Internet Usage Exceeds Desktop
2016-10-18 Long Term Support in the JS World
2016-10-18 Chat and the Consumerization of IT
2016-10-07 JavaScript Frustration
2016-10-07 AWS Cognito
2016-10-07 Is Facebook a Media Company?
2016-10-07 Playing Around with PHP Caching Static Files
2016-09-28 AWS CloudFront Supports HTTP/2
2016-08-25 SimpleMDE MarkDown Editor
2016-07-09 Riding the Trails
2016-05-24 Apple Trees
2016-04-12 Keep Your WordPress Plugins Updated
2016-02-19 Note to Self: Check out Ionic Framework
2016-02-02 Walking on Ice
2016-01-27 Static Site Generator Buzz
2016-01-15 End of the Week Reflections
2015-12-20 CloudFront Supports gzip
2015-12-12 End of the Vespa Season
2015-12-01 Symfony 3.0.0 released
2015-11-30 White Birches
2015-11-30 Playing Around With Symfony Service Container
2015-11-20 Square's Valuation Bubble
2015-11-16 Refreshingly Anti-Disruptive Thoughts on Startups
2015-11-16 Note to Self: Check out Aurelia
2015-10-29 Obfuscating Id's
2015-10-28 My First Package
2015-10-27 Full Moon
2015-10-20 CSS & JS Minification
2015-10-19 File Upload in Silex
2015-10-16 Friday Afternoon
2015-10-02 Angular VS Ember VS React
2015-10-02 End of the Week Reflections
2015-09-02 ReactJS For Stupid People
2015-10-01 Shooting Film
2015-07-03 Summer Holiday
2015-06-17 Google App Engine for PHP Generally Available
2015-06-16 Bike Ride
2015-05-05 The Slow Show
2015-04-23 Fields, Once Again
2015-04-21 Beautiful Spring Afternoon
2015-04-07 Easter at the Arctic Circle
2015-03-27 Gold Zebra
2015-03-26 I Never Get Tired of These Fields
2015-03-24 Something Interesting Is Happening
2015-03-14 Start of the Vespa Season
2015-03-13 Spring Fields
2015-03-12 Why ContentEditable is Terrible - Medium Perspective
2015-03-12 The New Chromebook Pixel
2015-03-09 Spring is Here
2015-01-29 Building Blocks
2015-01-19 New Duckfeet Soles
2015-01-16 Google Street View Goes Finland
2015-01-07 Wikipedia Moving to HHVM
2014-12-17 New Murakami
2014-11-22 Winter Morning
2014-11-21 Soundtrack of the Week: Chromatics
2014-11-17 React.js & Web Components
2014-11-12 Extending Sculpin with Console Commands
2014-11-11 Material UI
2014-11-01 End of the Vespa Season
2013-11-26 Beyond Clean Code
2013-11-08 PayPal Moving to node.js
2013-04-04 Global Internet Penetration and Ongoing Conflicts Around the World
2013-02-16 Posterous Shuts Down, Here Comes Posthaven
2013-02-12 Moving on to Silex from Legacy PHP
2013-01-21 The Future of ICT
2013-01-17 Lenovo Chromebook Announced
2013-01-17 Upgraded Ubuntu, Webapps Rock
2013-01-04 Kisai Watches
2013-01-03 Ubuntu for Phones
2012-12-05 Ubuntu Web Apps
2012-11-19 Great Web Color Combinations
2012-11-18 Great HTML5 Presentations with reveal.js
2012-11-14 Scaling a Silex Code Base
2012-10-31 Add to Home Screen
2012-01-03 Remember not to Use ID as the First Column Name of a CSV File
2011-06-20 Great Elgg Reference from Arck Interactive

Articles

Here are some longer posts that didn't quite fit in the blog.