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2025

Winter 2025-26 Tech Links: Architecture, Engineering Leadership, and Go Tooling

Dec 05

Fall 2025 Tech Digest: Explore Leading Insights on Development, Leadership, and Ops

Sep 23

Summer 2025 Tech Digest: Explore Leading Insights on Development, Leadership, and Ops

Jun 29

Winter 2025 Tech Digest: Explore Leading Insights on Development, Leadership, and Ops

Jan 20

2024

Summer 2024 Tech Digest: Explore Leading Insights on Development, Leadership, and Ops

Sep 20

April 2024 Tech Digest: Explore Leading Insights on Development, Leadership, and Ops

May 10

April 2024 Tech Digest: Explore Leading Insights on Development, Leadership, and Ops

Apr 10

February 2024 Tech Digest: Insightful Reads on Technology, Leadership, and Software Development

Feb 26

January 2024 Tech Digest: Insightful Reads on Technology, Leadership, and Software Development

Jan 16

2023

December 2023 Tech Digest: Essential Reads for Tech Professionals

Nov 14

Must-Reads for Tech Enthusiasts: My Favorite Insights from September 2023

Nov 13

Must-Reads for Tech Enthusiasts: My Favorite Insights from July-August 2023

Aug 11

Curated Insights: The Tech Leader's Reading List: June 2023 Edition

Jul 11

Curated Insights: Diving into Tech: My Favorite Reads for May 2023

Jun 11

Curated Insights: Essential Reads for Tech Leaders from April

May 11

Productivity, Tech Culture, Agile, and More - Links

Apr 25

Unemployed but still links

Mar 22

Links - 2023 - The Future

Jan 20

2022

Dec 22

x-mas is upon you <3

Nov 21

More than a link

Oct 12

Sep 13

Aug 01

Links in vacation mode

Jul 04

May 24

Apr 24

How are you? Spring is coming!

Mar 18

Feb 17

First 2022 links

Jan 12

2021

Almost X-mas links

Dec 12

September mayhem!!!

Sep 09

August - I Joined TwentyThree :heart:

Aug 11

Jul 08

Jun 11

Jun 10

Jun 07

Links - May Edition

May 05

Is it already April?

Apr 01

Mar 01

2021 - First Issue

Jan 30

2020

End of year links!

Nov 30

Hardcore Linker

Oct 28

What happened next links?

Sep 26

Back to work - Links

Aug 26

Jul 26

Back to reality, back to life.

Jun 18

More WFH reading

May 18

Apr 18

Mar 17

Feb 17

Jan 17

2019

Dec 16

Nov 14

14.10.2019 - Links again?

Oct 14

16.09.2019 - YO!

Sep 15

Link, Lænke, Die Linke

Aug 15

Jul 14

Links 14-06-2019

Jun 14

Links 27-05-2019

May 27

2019-04-28 - Just links...

Apr 28

Links 2019-03-25

Mar 25

Links - Feburary 07

Feb 07

Jan 08

2018

Links 2018.12.05

Dec 05

Links 2018.11.05

Nov 05

Links 2018.10.08

Oct 08

Links 12.10.2018

Sep 05

Links - 08.22.2018

Aug 22

Links - 08.08.2018

Aug 08

22-07-2018 - links extravaganza

Jul 22

Awesome Links - 13-07-2018

Jul 13

Links - 22-06-2018

Jun 22

Links - 31-04-2018

May 01

This is where links ends, and the real detective work begins

Apr 26

Links 11-04-2018

Apr 11

A good link clicked today always beats a perfect link clicked tomorrow...

Apr 10

Given enough links, all bugs are shallow

Mar 23

Of course you worthless hunk of fur

Mar 01

All men have limits. They learn what they are and learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine.

Feb 15

You can’t stop the change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting

Feb 01

The best programmers write only easy programs.

Jan 22

Deleted code is debugged code.

Jan 12

There is absolutely no reason to make computers as stupid as people are.

Jan 05

2017

Pasting code from the internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street

Dec 19

The unavoidable price of reliability is links

Dec 12

Walking on water and linking from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Dec 04

Without links, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.

Nov 20

“First, read the links. Then, write the code.”

Nov 08

It is better to be roughly linked than precisely wrong

Oct 27

Given enough links, all bugs are shallow.

Oct 12

Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

Oct 07

Your link determines your reality.

Sep 24

Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?

Sep 09

Adding links to a late software project makes it later!

Aug 28

You never finish a link, you just stop working on it

Aug 14

Great links speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind

Jul 31

The reason we go to links is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Jul 20

Link is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Jul 10

There is only one happiness in this life, to link and be linked.

Jun 21

Links are never 'only links'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

May 29

You never finish a program, you just stop working on it.

May 08

At last, the link comes full circle

May 01

There is only one happiness in this life, to link and be linked.

Apr 24

Each new situation requires a new architecture

Apr 17

Adding links to a late software project makes it later!

Apr 06

Its not a proxy of your seriousness that you have filled every minute in your schedule

Mar 29

The task of links today is to bring chaos into order.

Mar 22

Beyond the fiction of links, there is the reality of the links.

Mar 15

I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's.

Mar 08

Whatever good things we link end up linking us.

Mar 01

Links are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

Feb 22

Links is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Feb 13

I do not fear links. I fear the lack of them.

Feb 03

I always dream of a link that would be a syringe.

Jan 26

Make it link, make it right, make it fast.

Jan 12

firmitas, utilitas, venustas

Jan 05

2016

Links is an expression of values.

Dec 27

Links should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Dec 20

Beware of links in the above code I have only proved it correct not tried it

Dec 12

What you call 'link' is simply the place where you stop looking any further.

Dec 05

Before links can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Nov 30

An link that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only

Nov 22

Links is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cannot lose

Nov 16

Difficult links often bring out the best in people.

Nov 09

If you have reasons to link someone, you don’t love them

Nov 04

Links is never a straight line. It’s a forest, And like a forest it’s easy to lose your way.. To get lost... To forget where you came in.

Oct 28

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Oct 23

Great stories happen to people who can tell them.

Oct 14

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting.

Oct 08

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Sep 27

It is a mistake to think that you are the typical target user.

Sep 20

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

Sep 13

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

Sep 08

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.

Aug 31

Stop looking at yourself as a designer, and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas.

Aug 25

Information is cheap, meaning is expensive.

Aug 21

It’s not uncommon for designers to confuse a beautiful looking product with one that works beautifully.

Aug 12

Passion, dedication, and silly lists of what designers need are what designers need.

Aug 05

Copywriting is definitely the profession most written about.

Aug 01

A confident client will see your confidence as strength, not arrogance.

Jul 26

It’s not uncommon for designers to confuse a beautiful looking product with one that works beautifully.

Jul 21

Don't mistake legibility for communication.

Jul 14

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Jul 11

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Jul 07

Design is where science and art break even.

Jun 24

A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay. A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends.

Jun 17

Think more, design less.

Jun 13

Web design is responsive design. Responsive web design is web design, done right.

Jun 07

Design works best when it gets out of the user's way.

Jun 02

You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.

May 27

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

May 20

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

May 17

Wondering is the seed of genius.

May 09

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

May 03

To see takes time.

Apr 29

Everything was just a wild guess. And it takes a while to get confident that you're guessing pretty good.

Apr 28

If design becomes your life, you can be sure a lot of people will be making their living thanks to your designs.

Apr 25

No great thing is created suddenly.

Apr 20

Complaining is silly. Act or forget.

Apr 14

Write drunk; edit sober.

Apr 07

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Apr 04

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Mar 21

If we have trouble using something then it’s probably because that thing is badly designed, rather than us being stupid.

Mar 17

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Mar 11

When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.

Mar 08

Much like music, great art is also found in the spaces between your graphic elements.

Mar 02

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Feb 29

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.

Feb 25

Best thing about creating something is that it starts living it's own life.

Feb 19

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Feb 17

Think more, design less.

Feb 15

Smart people are attracted to stories, not feature lists.

Feb 09

Owning a camera doesn't make you a photographer.

Feb 01

Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.

Jan 25

I make solutions nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

Jan 19

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Jan 12

If I forget the words, they weren’t very memorable in the first place.

Jan 07

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.

Jan 04

2015

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Dec 28

Luck is the residue of design.

Dec 22

Rules can be broken — but never ignored.

Dec 10

Give a crap. Don’t give a fuck.

Dec 02

A picture is worth a thousand dollars.

Nov 25

Don’t explain why it works; explain how you use it.

Nov 19

Design is creativity with strategy.

Nov 12

You cannot not communicate.

Nov 05

A lot of the things about design that tend to get designers really interested aren't that important.

Oct 28

Wonderfully designed > beautifully designed. Any day.

Oct 22

Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.

Oct 15

Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.

Oct 08

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.

Oct 01

Write drunk; edit sober.

Sep 24

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Sep 17

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Sep 10

It's OK to do stupid things, except when you notice them.

Sep 03

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Aug 25

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Aug 20

Clients don't understand their success is reliant on standing out, not fitting in.

Aug 13

Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours.

Aug 06

Designers tend to whisper, ad agencies tend to shout.

Jul 30

Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

Jul 16

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Jul 08

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting.

Jul 02

I have found the best people to work with are gay men. They never have to'run it past their wives.'

Jun 25

Good design is finding a solution to a problem. Great design is finding the simplest solution to the same problem.

Jun 19

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Jun 11

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you are right.

Jun 04

Good design means never having to say 'Click Here.'

May 28

In the presence of good rationale, maintainers should be willing to change their mind often.

May 21

Design is where science and art break even.

May 13

Hackathon

2017

Using Gavel and Docker to handle judging at Hackathons

Feb 17

Management

2024

Managing Technical Debt in Startups: A CTO's Guide to Maintaining Agility

Jul 04

Navigating the Maze of Technical Debt: A Startup's Survival Guide

Jan 04

2023

Peacetime and Wartime Leadership in the Technology Industry: A CTO's Perspective

May 04

Embracing Microservices: Balancing Trade-offs, Benefits, Costs, and Organisational Factorse

Apr 17

Navigating Strategy, Innovation, and Change in the Technology Landscape

Apr 12

Empowering Teams and Driving Success: A CTO's Guide to Effective Leadership

Apr 01

Unlocking the Power of Product Management for Startup CTOs

Mar 30

Tackling Technical Debt - A CTO's Guide for Startups

Mar 29

Agile for Startups: Turbocharge Your Company's Succes.

Mar 28

On Hiring: A Guide for Startup CTOs

Mar 27

Manager

2018

Magnus Udbjørg, As a manager.

Feb 16

Master

2017

Do you use DevOps?

Mar 28

DevOps, What is this?

Mar 06

Sitecore

2017

Using Packer to Create Immutable servers to deploy Sitecore or other asp.net app

Feb 26

2016

Sitecore Security

Feb 23

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