Torkild's Stuff

Copyright. Pasteright...

The problem Ok, so time to admit a thing. I've been using Linux systems regularly for about 15 years now, and to this date, I've been of the understanding that copy and paste in Linux is like going to the dentist. It's something you do because you need to, not

Making DSC awesome

I've lately been fooling around with the Desired State Configuration capabilities in Windows. Having done a bit of deployment to servers, as well as developer machine maintenence, I can say I'm pretty tired of doing one-off scripts for unicorn problems. Enter DSC... It's the golden solution for all your problems

Make Chromecast dim down Philips Hue lights when launching an app

Quick hack to make make Philips Hue light bulbs dim down when using Chromecast (or, more specifically, when certain apps are open).

Wall mounted Arduino display

For the last few months, my ongoing, slowly paced project, has been making a wall mounted display. I recently bought an Arduino to play around with, and wanted to find some semi-useful purpose for it (probably to justify the purchase). After doing some research, I found a project which gave

Trommelyd goes i18n!

Today marks the day of Trommelyd going global! For a while, Trommelyd [http://trommelyd.no/] for Android has existed in a slightly alternate international coating, and it's now the time for Drumsound [http://drumsound.net/] to make an appearance. So far, there is no "magic" transition to the internationalized version,

Connection trouble, solutions, epiphanies..

Last week, my trusty old server recently went down, or more correctly, the internet connection it resides on, for a pretty prolonged period of time. Shouldn't really be a big surprise, and some might say that it was a miracle something hadn't gone majorly wrong earlier, as hosting anything out

What has been done, what will be done?

So far, I've released a few versions of the Trommelyd [http://www.appbrain.com/app/no.trommelyd.android] Android™ application. These releases has mostly been to get the application up to a point where it is both stable enough and has enough features to be used reliably and often. More

Trommelyd for Android released!

This is the announcement of the release of Trommelyd for Android™, the official application for Trommelyd [http://trommelyd.no]. The project is hosted on GitHub [http://github.com/torkildr/Trommelyd], and is licensed under GPLv3 [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html]. There are more features planned ahead.. Just