One of the great things about owning a Tesla is the fact that it in essence is a computer on wheels. With an API in place, this…
The Tesla Model S changed my commute, significantly!
The day before new-year I picked up my new Tesla Model S 70D, Deep Blue, at Tesla Drammen. It was going to be the first time…
Optimizing the hybrid car
I recently drove a Golf GTE for a day, instead of the Golf 7 i usually use for my commute. This made me think about the…
Adding a grid view to the WordPress admin users section
Recently the WP-admin has gotten more attention from core developers. The Media section recently got a grid design, and the plugins area also got a visual…
Seperate Varnish caching for HTTP and HTTPS
A high traffic site I host for a client needed to be available on both HTTP and HTTPS. This particular site, though, needed different caches depending…
Reset root MySQL password on Ubuntu
This is a question I have heard (too) many time. How does one reset the root MySQL password on Ubuntu. In order to make this as…
Google Webfonts and performance
tl;dr… Using Google Webfonts will hurt your score pretty bad, however, PageSpeed forgives you if you do it “right”. Recently I started making some changes to…
Dynamically embedding Gists
I updated my site to utilize html5 history and ajax recently. One of the challenges I faced was how to handle Gist embeds. Since they only…
Full score on Google PageSpeed, Pingdom and GTMetrix
For a second there, I had my doubts about being able to score 100% on multiple tests at the same time – but now I know…
Server load graph for StatusBoard with PHP
Soon after the launch of StatusBoard I published a short example of how the app could be used to display server statistics. After a lot of…
Quick tip: https and wp_get_attachment_url
Today I have been playing around with Varnish, SSL and SPDY in relation to WordPress hosting. Now, one thing that I noticed was that several images…
Quick Tip: Downloading WordPress from the command line
Here is a quick guide for downloading WordPress from the command line. In this case, I would be logged inn via SSH on my server, and…
Server statistics in Status Board
Panic, the company behind apps such as Coda and Transmit, has released a new app called Status Board. This app is in essence a widget hub…
Changing system date from Terminal – OS X recovery
When you’re booting your Mac from the recovery partition and are planning to reinstall OS X, you might be met by the following message: An error occurred…
Pulling webcam images with PHP
When Sandy was about to hit New York, @jorgenb came up with a great idea. Download the images from the NY-times webcam and make a timelapse…
Time-lapse of New York – Sandy visits
52450287 Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam.…
Quick Tip: Open folders in Sublime Text 2
In this post I will describe how you can add an item to the context menu in OS X for opening a folder in Sublime Text…
HiDPI: preparing for Retina displays
This post serves as a summary of what I talked about at the WordPress Meetup Oslo on tuesday October 16th. First, as an introduction, we need…
Quick Tip: Taking screenshots in OS X
I snap screenshots quite often, whether the topic is a website that I am working on or anything else graphical that I might need feedback on.…
Quick Tip: Customize the WordPress login page
It is really just a minor detail, and although there is such a simple way to do it, customizing the wp-login.php page can make a site…