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Fred is a Nordic software engineer who once set out never to blog in his life, but then thought better of it. You should follow him on Twitter

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How to quickly install Python on a Mac

December 28, 2020 - 2 min read

Use this bash three-liner for installing a minimal Python 3 distribution (Miniconda) anywhere you need an up to date Python distribution on a Mac.

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RegretsReporter - Crowdsourced data advocacy

September 17, 2020 - 3 min read

In the past few months, I have (as part of the Mozilla Foundation) been chipping away on a browser extension designed to help reverse the terrible trend of recommendations pushing manipulating garbage rather than quality content (with good storytelling and art).

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Vercel Private Submodules Workaround

June 24, 2020 (last updated August 30, 2021) - 2 min read

Vercel (formerly Zeit) does not support private submodules for Github-based deploys, but there is a workaround.

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The stack of this blog

May 06, 2020 (last updated October 30, 2020) - 2 min read

TL;DR: Gatsby.js as the underlying blog software, Talkyard for comments, Fathom for website analytics and Vercel for hosting.