Articles
Writing on cloud infrastructure, digital sovereignty and open systems.
- Toilet Flushes, Seismographs and a 10,000% Mobile Spike The day after Norway beat Brazil 2-1, the strangest record of the night is not on the scoreboard. It is in the toilet-rush water spikes, the mobile-network pressure, the SMS surge and the seismographs that felt a country celebrate at once.
- Norge slo Brasil igjen: Haaland-dobbel sender Norge inn i VM-historien Erling Haaland scoret to ganger sent da Norge slo Brasil 2–1 i VM-sluttspillet. Brasil har fortsatt aldri slått Norge, 28 år etter Marseille.
- Norway Beat Brazil Again: Haaland Double Sends Norway Into World Cup History Erling Haaland scored twice late as Norway beat Brazil 2–1 in the World Cup knockout stage. Brazil still have never beaten Norway, 28 years after Marseille.
- Brazil vs Norway: The World Cup Last-16 Clash Brazil Has Never Won Five-time world champions against a nation playing its first World Cup in 28 years — Vinicius Junior against Erling Haaland at MetLife. Kickoff, TV, lineups and the Viking Row for Sunday's round-of-16 tie, and the strange record that will not go away: Brazil have never beaten Norway.
- Norway Rowed, and Two Cities Shook on the Seismograph Days after Norway came to row, the prediction paid off: during the 2-1 win over Cote d'Ivoire, seismometers in both Oslo and Bergen picked up the celebration - and the biggest signal came from the rowing, not the goals.
- The Last Voice of Europe: When BBC Long Wave Fell Silent On 27 June 2026 the BBC switched off Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz, and almost nobody noticed. The story of one transmitter — and why Europe keeps retiring the robust infrastructure it built to survive war, blackout and the failure of everything else.
- What today’s Oslo earthquake in Norway revealed about infrastructure Today’s earthquake in the Oslo region of Norway caused no major damage. That is exactly why it matters. It still exposed how quickly uncertainty can strain communication, public trust and the hidden layers of a modern city.
- Dina St Johnston and the independence we forgot Long before hyperscalers and platform lock-in, Dina St Johnston built Britain’s first independent software house. Europe should remember her.
- How “getting a hobby” turned into Radar Radar started as a joke about needing a hobby outside cloud infrastructure and became a small side project for making security advisories easier to read.
- Women who shaped modern computing Foundational contributions from women shaped how modern computing systems work.
- Margaret Hamilton and modern software reliability Modern software engineering was shaped by failure handling and system design during Apollo.
- It was never just an office — it was people Our office in Kyiv was destroyed following the invasion in 2022. A reflection on people, resilience and what matters when everything else stops.