Blog

Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.

I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.

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Blog Posts

Semantic HTML and Accessibility

Tech

I've been looking into accessibility in web-design a bit lately and one of the things that keep popping up is to use semantic HTML. As long as you design your web-pages well, accessibility should be fairly good.

Firstly, one thing that is worth remembering about accessibility is that is for everyo...

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Why you should probably use Firefox

Tech

A while back Google's Chrome took the number one spot in the browser market share worldwide. Chrome is definitely a very good browser, and it has been favoured by web developers for quite some time. There might be arguments made that it might be the best browser on the market. At least it seems to b...

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The Importance of Hosting

Tech

A while ago I got a email from Parse that made me realize I just dodged a bullet. Facebook, that owns Parse announced that they will be shutting down their service in one year. For those of you who don't know, Parse is (was) a service that let you build apps on top of their service, and offered ne...

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Let's Encrypt

Tech

A while ago the Linux Foundation, EFF, Mozilla and many others started working on a project that would allow any website to enable TLS/SSL encryption. The idea behind the project is twofold, first to provide simple domain validation certificates free of charge, and secondly to make the proce...

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New Blog Platform

About the Blog

Last spring I combined my blog and personal site into a new one. I used a WordPress install, like I had on my old blog. Partly because that's what I had used before, and partly because I was doing a lot of WordPress stuff at work. I made my own theme for it using Timber, a Twig plugin for WordPr...

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WordCamp Finland 2015

Events

Since I'm at WordCamp, I thought I'd try to post through the WordPress android app.

I'm still waiting for the talks to begin. We've had some breakfast (coffee) at ravintola Hullu Poro where the conference is held. There is not too much to say yet, I'll probably be posting updates as the talks prog...

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