Hi, I'm Marcus, I'm a software developer living in Stockholm, Sweden.
I've been programming since the early eighties and building stuff for the web since the nineties. I get paid to help organizations with technology and processes around software development.
I’m running Intellij inside Ubuntu on WSL 2, and today I had problems connecting to a database. It would connect randomly and then quickly lose connection. It turns out that the problem was with the way that IntelliJ stores passwords. When running in Linux, IntelliJ uses the Gnome Keyring, which I did not have running. The quick solution to the problem was to switch IntelliJ’s password save setting to “Never”. Read More …
During the Christmas break, I have installed and set up Windows on my Lenovo X1 Extreme laptop. That might sound slightly stupid as it came installed with Windows, but as with every other non-Mac laptop I’ve owned/used over the last 20 years, I wiped the disk and installed Linux on it. Now it was the other way around. I now do development on Ubuntu using Windows Terminal, editing in VS Code on Windows or IntelliJ in Ubuntu using X410. Read More …
The other day my friend Aslam Khan wrote a post on Facebook about a talk he had held at Agile Africa 2018, and he wrote that this might be his “farewell to the agile community” This resonated with me, since I’ve long felt that agile is no longer where I want to be. As much as I still believe in the original premise of agile and like teaching people how to think about undeterministic processes, most companies these days are looking for improvement without doing any meaningful change. Read More …
It was 1979 and the punk movement wasn’t going anywhere. The music was loud, the hairdos were spiky and a majority of the older generation really didn’t get what was happening. In order to bring some order to the chaos, Swedish state television, the only one allowed at the time, decided to do a televised concert with what’s now punk legends Ebba Grön. While the kids ran a mosh pit on the floor, older people were seated in stands behind. Read More …
I came upon this awesome TED talk on “Why You Should Make Useless Things” by Simone Giertz thanks to Mikael Pawlo. The talk really resonated with me and articulated thoughts I have had for a long time. I learned how to program BASIC from a book 37 years ago, one year before I actually saw and touched a real computer. A few months later I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC20. Read More …
