Magnus Skog

Magnus Skog @mskog

About: I have been a software developer and systems architect for 10+ years with deep theoretical and practical knowledge. My ambition is to deliver solutions of high quality and architecture.

Location:
Malmö, Sweden
Joined:
Sep 11, 2018

Magnus Skog
articles - 26 total

Trello to Notion for free

Notion recently make their API public. This has been a long awaited thing that opens up a lot of po...

Learn More 5 2Jun 1 '21

Automated morning music with Pipedream, Huginn, and Mailbrew

Get a great music album delivered to the inbox every morning, with a Spotify link so that you don't...

Learn More 6 0Mar 29 '21

My Ruby on Rails stack for side projects in 2021

Why would you start a new side project in Ruby on Rails in 2021? Shouldn't you use something like N...

Learn More 50 2Mar 1 '21

What do you use for a Team Knowledgebase?

I've been looking for something to use for a team knowledgebase for a while now. This is going to be...

Learn More 0 1Feb 25 '21

LQIP in Rails using Thumbor and base64

There are many ways to do low quality image placeholders for applications. This is a simple way using...

Learn More 2 0Feb 2 '21

RSS Bridge and Huginn: Feeds for everything

RSS Bridge is my latest find in the automation space. While I already had Huginn installed as well...

Learn More 9 0Oct 5 '20

Prevent blank and initial search with Algolia

Algolia recent updated their pricing. You no longer have to pay a hefty monthly fee to get search g...

Learn More 1 0Sep 3 '20

My experience when changing from macOS to Ubuntu 20.04

I've been using a Macbook Pro for work for about 7 years now. My first one was a 2013 model and my...

Learn More 10 5Aug 30 '20

Autocomplete in Ruby on Rails using Stimulus

We are going to build a simple application in Ruby on Rails to autocomplete Reddit subreddits. If...

Learn More 20 0Aug 10 '20

Break bad habits by making them annoying

Breaking bad habits can be really hard. Willpower alone is often not enough to get the job done or...

Learn More 5 1Jul 1 '20

Hetzner Cloud Review: Revisited in 2020

It has now been well over two years since my Hetzner Cloud Review and I thought it was time to post...

Learn More 8 2Jun 18 '20

Self-hosted tools for web development

Having some self-hosted services and tools can make your life as a developer, and your life in gene...

Learn More 165 3May 18 '20

Self-hosting serverless with OpenFaaS

Introduction OpenFaas is self-hosted functions as a service. You can think of it as a se...

Learn More 9 0May 3 '20

Sunday summary #4

How websites evolved back to static HTML, CSS and Javascript files. Tailwind for React Native The o...

Learn More 4 0Mar 16 '20

Sunday Summary #3

Tailwind UI Tailwind UI has finally been released. Since the Tailwind CSS framework doesn'...

Learn More 4 0Mar 9 '20

Sunday Summary #2

Motion This is a free Chrome app for monitoring and fixing distractions while working. T...

Learn More 6 0Mar 3 '20

Fixing deliverability issues with Mailgun to Microsoft addresses

Note: This article is not sponsored and I am in no way affiliated with Glock or Postmark. This is a...

Learn More 3 0Feb 28 '20

Sunday summary #1

Amazon Sagemaker If you've ever wanted to play around with machine learning in the simples...

Learn More 5 0Feb 24 '20

Blogging with Gatsby and headless Ghost CMS

I am always on the hunt for the next improvement for my blog. I've been using Hugo and while I was...

Learn More 16 0Feb 17 '20

Offline capable Gatsby site on Cloudflare Workers

I recently moved my blog over from Hugo to Gatsby. One of the issues I ran into was that the offline...

Learn More 6 1Feb 8 '20

Visual Studio Code plugins for Ruby and Rails

A quick list of all the plugins I use for Ruby on Rails development.

Learn More 59 4Oct 6 '19

12 tips for being more productive

I've read many books on productivity over the years. Here are 12 of the most useful things that I've learned from them.

Learn More 52 0Sep 7 '19

Heroku vs self-hosted PaaS

This was originally posted on my blog I'm always on the hunt for a better way to host my side pro...

Learn More 147 7Jul 18 '19

42 performance tips for Ruby on Rails

This was originally posted on my blog Since Ruby on Rails is not the fastest web framework out th...

Learn More 174 3Jan 26 '19

Goals for 2019

My software development goals for 2019

Learn More 11 1Jan 4 '19

Hetzner Cloud: A quick review

I’ve been a loyal Hetzner dedicated servers customer for over 5 years now for all my side project nee...

Learn More 6 1Jan 4 '19