Tomas Vik

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Simpleton: privacy-aware web analytics made with Nginx and GoAccess

Weekend project combining open-source tools and deploying them with ansible.

Start working less to produce more, strange approach to prioritisation

Reactive work can burn you out without providing much value. Prioritization is the cure.

Designing a digital pirate map

Thought exercise exploring a way of storing secrets on the internet.

Three principles distilled from Getting Things Done

Overview of the core ideas from a famous productivity book.

How to create animated gif from multiple images with ImageMagick

Read this tutorial if you have several images and you would like to make them into an animated gif.

How my article became one-hit-wonder on hacker news

How my article reached the hacker news front page. And how it stayed there for two whole days.

AdBlockers hide the majority of visitors from web analytics

60% of this blog’s visitors are using AdBlocker and won’t show in the conventional web analytics.

Focus on strategic and outsource utility work

This article explains the concept of utility and strategic software and how it easily translates into everyday life.

Easy-going work doesn't provide much value

The whole day of work can feel great, but not provide value to the outside world.

Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes

Update: I wrote an article about what I’ve learned from using Zettelkasten for 16 months, you might be interested in reading it.


Reading is hard and books don’t work. Zettelkasten aka slip-box note-taking is the new cool kid on the block. Don’t go down the same rabbit hole as I did, researching the method for tens of hours. This article should be enough of the introduction to get you started.

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