A story of hunting bugs on the Edge of WebRTC. — Two days ago we got a strange report from one of our customers: 18 minutes into a video call he was having with one of his clients, the call mysteriously disconnected. And then it happened again — after 18 minutes. Was it a coincidence? Not only was it a strange…

Don’t let users hassle with a task that can easily be done by the servers. — How often have you been met with the above error message? Image uploading on the web is full of annoyances. …

Earlier this spring I made the tough decision to leave the product and the wonderful team behind it at appear.in. After nearly four years in my current position at appear.in, and close to 6 years in total in Telenor Digital (parent company), it was time for me to move on. …

Working remotely is no doubt the future of work. Cities are getting more crowded, collaboration is global and employee expectations to how they should be allowed to work is changing. As part of meeting this new future appear.in has given their employees a task. Work remotely and travel, and then document and research your findings on what works, and what doesn’t. In this series of blog posts I’ll talk about my expectations, experience and sum up my thoughts on working remotely part-time as a software engineer.

I could tell you many stories about late nights spent debugging, but today I want to tell you a special story of mine, about dragons in code, when database queries go wrong. In late September 2016 we started seeing some unusual issues. Seemingly at random, one of our production servers…

And with that, JSConf Iceland is officially over. I thought I should share some of my thoughts about why this conference was great, why it should happen again, and why you should come too! The Country The first thing to hit you when you fly over and land in Iceland is how…

I’ve talked about previously how we measure and analyze WebRTC traffic in appear.in. Following up in Philipp’s blog post on where to deploy TURN servers, I wanted to do one on latency and how that differs in our service across the world. In our datasets we have, amongst other things…

Inspired by my good friend @fippo’s blog post on failing WebRTC calls, I wanted to play around with some data too. However, I’m far too lazy to dig around with SQL all the time, so I wanted something a bit more powerful. The software we use to extract features from…

A trip in pictures from February and March 2015 Brooklyn Bridge, taken from South Street Seaport In March 2015, four other friends and I visited New York City for a 7 day long trip. …