❯ Martin Polden

A bit about me

I'm a developer located in the cold north of Trondheim, Norway. I enjoy writing code, as well as using and contributing to open source software whenever I can. My code is available here and on GitHub.

I spend my professional time as a Founding Engineer at Hornet, building the next-generation retrieval engine for AI agents. When not working on software, I'm usually hanging out with my SO, travelling, riding my MTB, watching movies, or enjoying the occassional craft beer.

My ramblings are infrequent, and should mainly be seen as an attempt at improving my writing. Any insightful posts on technology, software or pop culture are likely accidental.

Posts

OpenBSD, dhcp6leased and Altibox
Shocktober is finally here
This should not happen
Building a home server (2024 edition)
Revisiting Linux on the desktop
Pragmatic self-hosting
Top TV shows of 2022 so far
Raspberry Pi and no video signal
Top TV shows of 2021
My approach to backups
Immediate test feedback with entr
Riding in Hafjell
Emacs and ripgrep
On using software
Jottacloud and the reliability of cloud storage
Media picks of the decade 2010-2019
Reproducible development environments using Vagrant
IPsec VPN with RouterOS and Android
Thoughts about DevOps
Keep your repository in shape
Top 20 XKCD comics
Building a new computer
MySQL and fast wildcard search
Finding a decent editor on Ubuntu
PHP in contrast to Perl
Programmer's Notepad
Getting usernames and passwords using Google Code Search
ATI discontinuing their old control panel
Trimming the OpenBSD kernel
µTorrent