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Navigation Wars: Top or Side?

I've made quite a few apps the past years. A social network for travel, local activities directory (kind of like Foursquare but for activivites), a word game, a screenshot and

code

Optimizing large table rendering in React

I recently had an issue working on Wobaka.com where the contacts table were taking too long time to re-render. What happened was that when more than 100 contacts were

bootstrapping

Making a better CRM for online businesses

I've spent the past 8 years or so making web applications. Not full time, but as side projects while studying or working. Some have been quite ambitious (a TripAdvisor competitor)

How I Made Advent of Pixels

About three years ago I couldn't find a nice way to save inspiration while working on projects (screenshot folder hell 🔥) so I made Klart.io, a place to save bookmarks

code

Continuous Integration and Delivery for Monorepos

Recently I was working in a monorepo and wanted to set up continuous integration and devlivery for a bunch of microservices. I was surprised that I didn't find any popular

Sentry with User Context for Express

Today I tried to add some user context to Klart.io's issue tracking. This is helpful since it allows you to track which users get what errors. Klart's backend is

Testing Express Apps with Mocha, Chai and Puppeteer

I've been working a lot on improving the test coverage for Klart.io recently. When the app was small I only had a few integration tests doing some API requests

code

Klart Inbox: Save it for later

For the past one and a half year I've been working on Klart.io — A bookmarking with screenshot service. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about whether or not I

design

Context In Design

One of the best things about making something for yourself is that when you use something every day you will notice issues and make minor improvements all the time. Sometime

code

One Year Of Design 2017

After over a year of collecting designs with Klart for Pixels I thought it would be fun to visualize everything in some way. I really wanted to display all the

code

Saving and Searching Meta-Data on Klart

I've been building Klart — a bookmarking tool for designers for about a year and a half now. The reasons that I made Klart was that I didn't find any simple

design

Making Products User-Friendly

I've been building Klart.co — a bookmarking service for designers that saves a link and screenshot of anything with just a click for about a year and a half now.

code

Higher-Order Components and Data Fetching in React

In July last year I decided to write new code for Klart.co (a bookmarking tool for designers) using React. I've bumped into some issues since then, but the overall

startups

How I Launched Colors on Product Hunt

During the past year I've been making Klart.co — a bookmarking service for designers. In this post I'll tell you about how I launched 🚀 Colors on Product Hunt and ended

design

One Year Of Design — In Colors

This post is about how I built Colors — a data-driven collection of beautiful color palettes 🌈. During the past year I've been working on Klart.co — a bookmarking service for designers

code

How To Use JavaScript Async/Await In Parallel

I've adopted some pretty new JavaScript goodies when writing the frontend for Klart.co, a bookmarking service for designers that I'm working on. This post will describe a common pitfall

Building Cross-Platform Browser Extensions

Browser extensions can be super useful since they allow you to extend the browser 😏. I've been working on Klart.co — A bookmarking tool for designers, for about a year and

design

Boards for Everyone

I recently wrote a blog post about creating collaboration features on Klart.co, a bookmarking tool for designers, to make it awesome for teams. As a consequence to this, one

startups

Why and How I'm Moving My Startup From B2C To B2B

It's been about a year since I started Klart.co, a bookmarking service for designers. It started out as a simple way to capture and organize anything you find online.

code

How I Made Pixels ⚡️ Fast

Pixels is a collection of kick-ass designs updated every day. It's built on the same technology I made for Klart.co, a super friendly (🙊) bookmarking service for designers. After Pixels

code

The Tech Behind Klart.co and Pixels

After writing about building Pixels some people have asked me about my technology stack for building Klart.co - A bookmarking tool for designers and Pixels - A collection of

design

Building Pixels - A Daily Source of Inspiration

Last year in October I set out to build a collection of hundreds of web designs that I've saved as inspiration for new and ongoing projects. It's called Pixels and

code

One Year of Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup

Hey! This is an article about me bootstrapping Klart.co, a bookmarking tool for designers and developers, for a year as a solo founder. I worked on it as a

code

Building Klart's new chrome extension

As I mentioned in earlier posts, traveling around Asia has made me aware of that everyone doesn't have super fast connections as we have in Sweden ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Since I wanted Klart to work well everywhere I started by making image previews lightning fast. The

life

Thoughts on Coffee

First of all, this is a highly unscientific post. It's about my experiences with coffee during the last three years, and how I believe it affects me. When I started university three years ago, I basically quit coffee without even thinking about it. There

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