Stig's Soapbox

Hi! I'm Stig. I like to hang with my family, read, play guitar, run, hack my Emacs config, and occasionally update this site.

Recent blog posts (RSS)

Speeding up tests on CircleCI for a Python Django project Python CircleCI

I outline how we reduced the time to run a Django application's CI test suite from about 13 minutes to under 4 minutes.
Digital Minimalism Lifestyle Reviews Popular

I introduce Cal Newport's book, and how it's helping me take control of where I spend my limited currency in today's attention economy.
Learning Guitar Update Music

I try to keep myself honest–and on target!–by posting an update on my guitar learning journey.

My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy Talks Hiring

This is a transcript of a lightning talk I gave at a company "all hands" get-together. I tell the story of my "hiring experience" as a sonar operator on a submarine in the Norwegian Navy. To tie it into work, I included a little hiring-related lesson at the end.

My first to reach the HackerNews front page. In weeks it got orders of magnitude more hits than the rest of my site put together.
Potter Coding Dojo in Clojure Clojure

Detailing my trials and tribulations with the "Potter" coding dojo problem, with code examples in Clojure.

I like it because of the amount of iterations we went though, and the discussions I had with coworkers about it at all-hands.
Rise of the Machine Hacks

I ruminate on implementing a simple virtual machine—for a simple language—in C.

I like this one because it was such a great learning experience!