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Jacob Berglund @jacobberglund.com · 18/09/2026

Ayyyy! Just released 1.0 of my take on an opinionated CSS framework. varde.variant.dev/docs/ Look, I love packages, but isn't it something magical about just referring to a CSS file? To get fonts, colors and utilities. It's probably not a design system, but it certainly is the foundation of one.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hva mister vi som utviklere, designere, fagfolk og til og med bransje når vi bruker kunstig intelligens? Dette har vi spilt inn en podcast-episode om i Variantsnakk! - Transistor: share.transistor.fm/s/f13f4ee8 - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qyq... - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/h...

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Hva mister vi når vi bruker kunstig intelligens? | Variantsnakk | Episode 21

Hva mister vi som utviklere, designere, fagfolk og til og med bransje når vi bruker kunstig intelligens?Lovnaden er økt produktivitet, og en enklere arbeidshverdag. Det er nærliggende å være en skepti...

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Jacob Berglund @jacobberglund.com · 26/02/2026

Made a web component to progressively enhance good ol' SSR forms. Introducing <enhance-form>! You wrap a form with it and you'll get inline form validation with minimal effort. Heavily inspired by Unpoly 😍

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GitHub - jberglund/enhance-form: A web component to progressively enhance HTML forms

A web component to progressively enhance HTML forms - jberglund/enhance-form

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Jacob Berglund @jacobberglund.com · 31/12/2025

Looking back at 2025, my own highlight is the talk I put together about color systems using OKLCH. youtu.be/pQ0asU6mB1I #designsystem #css

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Jacob Berglund: Rethinking Color: A designer-developer's guide to modern color systems – Refill 2025

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Norge har ambisjon om å gi Ukraina minimum 15 milliarder NOK i bistand hvert år fram til 2030, men det gulvet kan godt heves betraktelig. Nå, mer enn noen gang de siste tre årene, må vi som nasjon ha handlingskraft. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

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Handlingsregelen må ikke stå i veien for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina

Ved å gi Ukraina det landet trenger, gjør vi nettopp det handlingsregelen var ment å gjøre.

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Elise Kristiansen @frkfrontend.no · 02/03/2025

Morsomste jeg har lest i dag er sinte kommentarer fra "Green Day-fans" som skal slutte å høre på dem fordi de har blitt politiske. Bitch, come on. Du hørte aldri på dem om du tror de først nå har blitt politiske.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Godt spørsmål. Det er sikkert fult mulig at amerikansk dominans innen digital infrastruktur og programvare kan utnyttes av de i en ev handelskrig. Enten ved å skru av eller nedgradere tjenester. Men det hadde vært et ekstremt kraftig grep, vet ikke om de er tjent med å gå så langt.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Burde Norge gjøre seg uavhengig av amerikanske datasentre og teknologi? Det er skremmende å tenke på at så mye av Norges digitale infrastruktur er utenfor vår kontroll. @krakels.bsky.social og jeg spilte nylig inn en podcast-episode om dette med Lars Iversen fra Atea: share.transistor.fm/s/b69ef07e

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Burde Norge gjøre seg uavhengig av amerikanske datasentre og teknologi? | Variantsnakk | Episode 17

Donald Trump skaper usikkerhet rundt dataoverføringsavtaler mellom EU og USA. Derfor har det danske datatilsynet nylig anbefalt danske virksomheter å ha en cloud-exit strategy, og legge en plan for å ...

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Unsolicited advice (sorry); what made the most difference for me was uninstalling the native YouTube-app, instead install socialfocus.app and force myself to only interact with YouTube through the browser. Hiding shorts, feed etc with SocialFocus made for a more healthy relationship with YouTube.

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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 29/12/2024

I am so sick of everything constantly vying for my attention

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

No idea how well it runs on PS5 but I’d definitely say FF9, if I had to pick just one. FF7 is a lovely game but I hindsight I think it unfairly overshadows 9

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Then again I get that with the custom feeds here, so might be there is no conflict wrt what I want and what you’re saying

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This might be a bad take, but I’m not sure I agree that getting earlier pigeonholed is a good thing 😅 I’ve started disabling the “feed” in many SoMe-apps because the app gets overeager when thinks it has pinned down my interests. I want more time to explore

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Ben Vinegar @benv.ca · 20/12/2024

When SaaS products grow and the architecture starts to break down, two types of devs emerge: 1. Those who believe the system is beyond repair and needs to be totally rebuilt 2. Those who put their heads down and fix it one piece at a time I've only seen group #2 be successful.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hadde lignende utfordring i revers, kjøpte en bolig med piano stående i stua. Selger spurte om vi ville ha det med på kjøpet, og selv om jeg ikke kan spille piano, så takket jeg ja til det. Gratis (gammelt, ustemt) piano, liksom! Det var litt av en operasjon å få det ut av hus til slutt 😅

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In my head this platform is named Buzzki

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The most humbling part of writing a presentation to explain a concept, is coming to realize you don’t understand the thing you want to present as well as you thought you did.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I find the notion of value is difficult to quantify even for myself. I can find myself liking a post that is take-it-or-leave-it filler content. Like something humorous or zingy. In that regard I am probably signaling through engagement that I want more of this. But I’m not sure I actually do.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Yeah customizable feeds makes sense in that regard. Seems there’s also sort of a follow-for-a-follow market right now so I guess there is a gold rush/land grab going on. And as you say, how much then are followers “worth” down the line? Is it more about getting yourself into “valueable” feeds?

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The whole starter packs concept seems like a good idea. But then I go into some profiles and they follow 30k people. And I wonder, what’s the point? It’s like having dozens of books in “currently reading” on Goodreads, you’re never going to get through all that.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Apropos coding music, really enjoying Nala Sinephro's new album open.spotify.com/album/51CQQ3... Courtesy of @jacobberglund.com who linked me this one!

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Endlessness

Nala Sinephro · Album · 2024 · 10 songs

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Currently listening to Vessels - Dilate which strikes me as good coding music open.spotify.com/album/5jZFMp...

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Dilate (Special Edition)

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh my so that’s what the ➕ button is for!

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Det er jo ikke en stor brukergruppe det gjelder heller nødvendigvis, ofte så handler det om noen få med gamle enheter eller OS. Jeg noen ganger lurt på hvor liten den gruppen må være før det lønner seg heller å bare kjøpe ny maskinvare til de enn å betale en utvikler til å fikse feilen.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’ve not been a huge fan of movies about games, but after the latest Super Mario and Sonic-movies I think I’m ready to change my stance. Also looking forward to this one!

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Like with DevOps Handbook or Team Topologies, etc. Which might be disheartening in some ways but also hammers home the point that difficulties you encounter at work is probably less about fixing process and tools than it is about people and how they interact, think and cooperate.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finished reading “Make Work Visible” last evening, which is all about the flow of work and exposing bottle necks and “time thieves”. I liked it but as with all “how do we work” books I’ve read it always seem to boil down to “to do this you need a major change in the culture of the company”

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Though there is some weirdness in writing English here in a thread ostensibly filled with Norwegians. Same when people review PRs and write comments in English when the whole team is Norwegian-speaking. But there one could argue it’s inclusive for other teams in the company, or future team members.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I think @nikolaia.com had a good point about this that context and intent matters. To me it feels natural to post in English when it’s about tech. But maybe not for other topics.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Diffusion-bombing your own photos! “I didn’t do the thing you have a picture of me doing, judge. It’s obviously AI-generated!”

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

But in all seriousness, that was an amazing concert. Best Jacob Collier-concert I’ve been to in my life

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Which I guess sucks to hear for the audiences in all those other cities he played in

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Apparently Jacob Collier, and I have this on good authority from the man himself, thinks the Oslo-audience is the best audience on the tour so far

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’ve done most of that. I haven’t gone as far as doing the API-service in its own image since it has a lot of dependencies too. But I will definitely take a stab at that at some point.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Yeah especially the authentication but was difficult. Also the dependent APIs as you say. I made a mock server which abstracts away a lot of that. But as I said it feels very hacky. 😅 Made some PRs towards testcontainers-node to get some of the features I wanted to make it happen

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Been doing some e2e with NextJS and TestContainers recently, kind of happy with where I got it but definitely feels more hacky than the pattern I’m using in dotnet

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

That is to say, something conditional I want to do in a shared test fixture but only for a single test case

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Also I think this will make some of my test code a whole lot simpler to maintain. That has always been annoying to set values that I only want to persist within a single test case.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yeah I’m thinking anything outside the normal application flow. Used sparingly. The other case I immediately thought of was where I wanted to pass a correlation id to a subsystem. There are other solutions for that now-a-days of course.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I feel like Dan Abramov is one of the few people who can do something like this where it’s more than likely not a hustle

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Happened upon it while writing some code to gracefully change the behavior of a logging middleware. Not something I’m going to start using all the time, but I can definitely see more use cases for it.

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Just discovered AsyncLocal<T> and my mind is blown. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Yeah definitely! I haven’t given much attention to custom feeds but I really like the ability to customize my own experience and interaction with the app

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

But joking aside I don’t remember you telling me 😅

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Christian Brevik @cbrevik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I have to claim this for my own or else people will think all my hot takes come from you

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