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Just ran across this great slide deck today over at GrowthHackers. Growth Hacking for Lean Startups from StratAlignGroup

Are they using Google Apps? Google Hangouts is great tool for video conferences…if the other party is also on the Google stack (Gmail or Google Apps). If they’re not, it it’s a dead end. Often time when scheduling conference calls, I ended up manually looking at the MX records to determine if I should use Google Hangout or Uber Conference. Since this process …

For some time, I’ve worn both my Pebble and a Fitbit Flex. Since the Pebble comes with a built-in pedometer, this bothered me a lot. As a digital nomad, you’re always looking at ways to reduce the things you carry around and I’m now happy to report that I have retired my Fitbit. There has long been various pedometer watchfaces available for the Pebble. …

» CoreOS is now available on CloudSigma! I’m really excited to announce that CoreOS is now available on CloudSigma.

GetCanary.io - Intelligent notifications The other day I had a Eureka moment while archiving the daily batch of notifications from various server tasks. Instead of having to read over ‘success’ messages, why isn’t there a reliable way to instead get notified when things do not work as expected. This is what our latest project sets out to solve. The title of …

Here’s the presentation deck from CloudExpo Europe 2015. The title of the talk was “Server Evolution: From mainframes to containers and PaaS.” Enjoy!

Privacy is difficult in this day and age. On the one hand we want to limit what we provide these data hungry companies with and on the other hand, we don’t want to alienate ourselves from our friends. Personally, Facebook is the company that I’m most reluctant to share data with. I simply don’t trust them. If you read Salim Virani’s post Get your loved ones …

In recent years, it has become fairly common within the retail space to use (IP-based) surveillance cameras to track foot traffic (this can also be referred to as a “people counter”). This is a great idea, as it allows you to re-use existing hardware instead of having to install additional sensors. There are numerous commercial solutions out there that are …

Today I stumbled across the Purism’s Librem 15 laptop. It’s a crowd sourced laptop that is, as the name implies, pure. No proprietary or firmware or software. I really like this idea, as it improves security by a lot. At first glance, it looks pretty good. However after diving into the details, it falls short on a few points. The keyboard layout. A number …

In the last few weeks, a lot of details have been disclosed around Ross Ulbricht’s arrest. For those not familiar with the matter, Ulbricht was arrested at a library in San Francisco some time ago with his laptop open. The agents managed to steal the laptop out of Ulbricht’s hands and therefore prevent him from locking the computer (which presumably had …

Interview with Viktor Petersson, VP of Business Development for IAAS provider CloudSigma Interview with Viktor Petersson, VP of Business Development for IAAS provider CloudSigma on what it takes to be a Gartner-Cool Vendor

While I’ve switched most of my workloads to Docker, there are still some situations where you need to manage and set up Virtual Machines (VM). These days, KVM+QEMU has more or less been established as the virtualization standard, so we’ll be using that. Setting this up on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) is very straight forward. All you need to do is to run: $ …