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Why I do what I do last month

I’m currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and last night I had a very humbling experience. I was out for a late dinner with some friends and got back to the hotel at about midnight. The night before I had been on a flight all night to arrive in Buenos Aires, gotten off the plane, went [...]

Touring South America with Mozilla last month

In a week from now, starting next Thursday, I and some Mozilla colleagues will embark on a MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) tour of South America! To be more specific, it will cover the South Cone, and within 8 days we will be visiting four countries: Argentina Uruguay Brazil Chile I was in Chile …

I have a drinking problem last month

Since I lead a life with attending a lot of events and conferences, there’s something that has been on my mind for some time. But when you just think and don’t blog about it, you can be sure someone else will cover the topic before you, and in this case Ryan Funduk did so in [...]

Geek Meet May 10th 2012, with Rob Hawkes last month

Sold out All seats have been taken. Please write a comment to be put on a waiting list, there are always a number of cancellations, so there’s still a chance. Finally, time for another Geek Meet here in Stockholm! Introducing Rob Hawkes I am very happy to welcome my Mozilla colleague Rob …

Social media campaigns and a critical view 2 months ago

This post is co-written with Cecilia von Schedvin. This morning, we were talking about the KONY 2012 movement, various reaction around it and how easy we share things without even looking at it. How our gut reaction is to act without even knowing what we’re acting on or reflect on what it means. …

Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers 2 months ago

This post was originally published for Mozilla Hacks. One thing which has been very important when it comes to creating special end user experiences have been the ability to show something fullscreen, effectively hiding all the other content etc. Remember when web sites gave you instructions how …

Thoughts on PPK’s take on Web developer relations … 2 months ago

Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) wrote a blog post yesterday about his thoughts on Web developer relations management in the mobile world. Since I work for Mozilla, that he mentions, and I was also remotely involved in the discussion he refers too, I wanted to express my thoughts. PPK is outlining his …

Links and reading tips – Robert’s read March 7th 2012 2 months ago

Time for another batch of good reading – both from a web developer perspective and a life one. A good amount of links this time, but skim all quickly to find some gems you are interested in. Tip: remember, you can always find all my reading suggestions in the Robert’s read category …

Storing images and files in IndexedDB 2 months ago

This post was originally published for Mozilla Hacks. The desired future approach for storing things client-side in web browsers is utilizing IndexedDB. Here I’ll walk you through how to store images and files in IndexedDB and then present them through an ObjectURL. The general approach …

Twitter lists me as one of 23 Swedes to follow 2 months ago

It was brought to my attention that I am one of the 23 people Twitter lists as suggested Swedes to follow on Twitter! What’s interesting here is the other names of the list, who are people like Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, pop star Robyn, Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify and …