My blog

Instagram feed as static page

Some code and instructions for showing your Instagram feed as a static page with a Ghost blog.

Moving from WordPress to Ghost

Although I like WordPress, it is bloated for just a simple blog. This is one of the reasons I've gone back to using Ghost as my blogging platform. Another reason is the fact

Gitea

[Tutorial] Adding Lets Encrypt to Gitea

In the last post I showed you how to set up Gitea with Nginx on an Ubuntu box. Now we’ll set up a Lets Encrypt certificate on that install. For this part

Git

[Tutorial] Set up Gitea with Nginx.

In this tutorial I’ll go through the steps to set up your own Gitea instance with Nginx. There are probably several different methods to achieve the same goal, this is how I

Code

Moving from Gogs to Gitea

After having some small hiccups with my Gogs installation – not just because of problems with Gogs it self, it was more user problems. So after rolling back a backup, I decided to give

Code

Updated dyndns app

Just updated the dyndns app for Digital Ocean. No longer needs to be re installed after changing config. It now relies on an external config file.

Bot

Coding a Twitter bot

I’ve been playing around with the Twitter API this weekend, and put together a small Twitter bot. This is my first attempt at something like this, so there will be errors. It

Code

Weekend coding

Just because I’m a developer by day, does not mean that I stop coding when I come home. It’s in the fingers and blood(?). Most of my of-the-clock coding is just

Server config

Server config @3 am is a bad thing. Good backup routines are priceless! Lost last post, will repost – soon(ish).

ISPConfig

WordPress and Nginx

This is just a small writeup on setting up WordPress on a Nginx server running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The prerequisite is also that is has PHP and MySql. Basically this post is

SSL / PGP / DKIM

So, done with securing my servers and mail. Private mails are now all securely signed, domains have SSL and mail server has DKIM.

405

More Nginx and WordPress challenges [updated]

As I was writing about in the last post, there where some problems getting every thing to work with WP, Ubuntu and Nginx. One of the problems I got, was kind of a

Nginx

WordPress on Nginx

Running WordPress on server with Nginx is not a problem. However getting “pretty” permalinks can be a challenge. What you need to do, is to add an extra directive to your vhost setting

gitlab

Changes

After moving all my sites from Linode over to DigitalOcean, I’ve also moved from the Ghost platform back to WordPress(.org). I’ve also gone from Apache to Nginx because I just

Moving

Moving VPS

So this is just a small post to celebrate the move from one VPS to another And a post to see that all DNS stuff is working!

Code

NMEA GLL to decimal degrees

This is filed under “things you don’t find on stack overflow”. Working with the sensors on the ships I found that my calculations I did to get the GPS location displayed in

16.04

Rockin' Ubuntu GNOME on MackBook Pro

It almost never fails. Every time a new version of Ubuntu comes around, I’ll have to try it out. This time it was the second beta of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 that

Code

What I do...

As you might have seen, I’m a developer working some strange places, but I’m having fun doing it. I work for the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, developing a new event

Code

The hunt for the perfect editor

I’m no IDE person. I like my editor(s), I just can’t seem to find the perfect one. Maybe it is just me, but I cant’t remember a time I

GitHub

GitLab on VPS

So now I’ve done that as well. Decided that I needed a Git server on my VPS – don’t know for what. But there you have it. The best reason for a

Arctic

Coding on the high seas

The life of a coder gets you to the most remarkable places. Last year I was with a fishing boat to the Barents Sea and Bering Island doing code work on the project

forum

So where did the Ghost.org forum go?

I just popped by the ghost(.org) forums, just to find that there was no forum. Yea, I saw the Slack thing, but I’m kinda old fashioned – I miss the forum. I

Hacked

So this just happened

Things like this just happens from time to time. My VPS, in lack of some TLC, got hacked and started to spew out spam. And that just sucks balls! But now it it