I am Simme

  • Some Node.js Modules I Wrote

    18 Feb 2013

    Such a long time since I wrote something here. And I’ve felt for a long time that I want to get some writing done. And since I really don’t know what to write about; here is a quick run down of some recent Node.js modules I wrote! Staticfy Staticfy takes...

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  • Bootstrapping Node.js with Async

    10 Apr 2012

    When writing node applications it’s easy to get lost in the callback jungle. Especially during the bootstrap phase of your app. You have lots of clients connecting to lots of servers and some of them depend on each other. This is ends up in code that’s hard to read and...

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  • No hassle Vim with Ruby support in Lion

    23 Mar 2012

    Recently I’ve been trying to force myself to learn Vim. By using Vim. However there’s a few things from TextMate that I really cannot live without. Like command-t for quickly opening a file using fuzzy matching. So I found the conveniently named Vim plugin command-t from Wincent Colaiuta. The plugin...

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  • Fading UILabel Truncation

    22 Mar 2012

    In an app I’m currently writing I wanted to make a UILabel fade out instead of just clipping or truncating. After a bit of tinkering this is the solution I came up with. It uses a CAGradientLayer to mask the end of the label with a gradient. Here is the...

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  • Spatial Relationships

    18 Mar 2012

    We (goodold.se) recently moved to a new office space. The new place is really amazing. However, there is one tiny detail that annoys the hell out of me; one has to perform advanced gymnastics to reach the toilet paper. Now, I know you didn’t come here to read about my...

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  • Hello World

    17 Mar 2012

    So, here we are again. Think this is like the fifth or sixth time I’ve setup a blog. Hopefully it’s not the fifth or sixth time I abandon it. I hope to be writing alot about web dev, iOS dev and other goodies in the time coming.

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