The place where Jakob's silly and serious thoughts coalesce into words roughly biannually
I've always loved airplanes. This almost certainly stems from being the son of a pilot, and it's an interest that has stayed with me my whole life. From my dad taking a 5-year old Jakob to the airport to watch the airplanes, all the way to me spending hundreds of hours of my free time researching, creating and practicing an hour-long conference talk on things us developers should learn from the…
One of the biggest system shocks I experienced when I started out working as a software engineer and consultant was the silly number of trailing zeroes you see every time money is involved. I remember picking the cheapest ticket options on inconvenient flights in order to save the company a few…
When I was a student I shared an apartment with one of my closest friends, who has a degree in city planning. You'd never know it, but it's amazing how many thunderous 4 AM speeches on why Brasilia sucks and Jan Gehl is the second coming of Jesus Christ you can fit into a 3-year period when you combine alcohol with enthusiasm for the field of city planning.
This year I spoke at a conference for the first time. This is the story of how I survived that experience. Ok, well, by the time I'm writing this blog post I've technically spoken twice (at Booster and NDC Oslo), but I've decided to combine them as a sort of frankenexperience. I held the same talk at both conferences, after all.