Experienced developer located in Bergen, Norway with over 14 years of professional experience. Passionate about building web apps with Laravel and the TALL-stack. Launched multiple side-projects and worked in startups, corporates, and web agencies.
Currently VP of Engineering at Crescat AS, building collaborative event management software. Also Partner at Coded AS and Owner of Liseth Solutions AS. | |
| 2026-09-27 | Switch PHP Version When Entering an Isolated Herd Site
herd isolate only changes the PHP version that serves a site. A small shell hook makes plain php, composer and artisan use the isolated version too, for zsh, bash, fish and PowerShell. | | 2026-09-12 | Adding a Norwegian Dictionary to JetBrains IDEs
JetBrains IDEs only ship an English dictionary. Here's how to add a Norwegian (Bokmål or Nynorsk) Hunspell dictionary so the spell checker stops flagging Norwegian words. | | 2026-09-01 | How I built Tjommi's backend
A technical retrospective on the Tjommi backend: inbox ingestion, receipt parsing, OCR and text-davinci, config-driven web scraping, price-drop detection, and the ticket automation DSL that turned retailer emails into workflows. | | 2026-08-26 | How Much Did My One-Letter Aliases Actually Save Me?
I have three shell aliases (j, s, z) for just, stree ., and zed . I dug through 7 months of shell history to find out how many characters they've saved. | | 2026-08-14 | Fixing "The image manifest, config or layer media type is not supported" on Laravel Vapor
A Vapor deployment built on Apple Silicon reached ECR, then failed in Lambda. Docker had pushed an ARM64 image plus a BuildKit attestation as an OCI index. Here is the fix. | | + more | View all articles → |
| 2023 — Now | Crescat AS | VP of Engineering | Event management software for venues and festivals. | | 2021 — Now | Coded AS | Partner | B2B SaaS: BoatFlow & Reflow. | | 2020 — Now | Liseth Solutions | Owner | ChatFlow, Kassal.app. | | 2020 — 2023 | Tjommi | CTO | Price monitoring, web scrapers, Chrome extension. | | 2019 — 2020 | Guilty AS | Partner & Lead Dev | Flutter, Laravel, VueJS & Craft CMS. | | 2017 — 2019 | Guilty AS | Partner & System Dev | Laravel, VueJS, CraftCMS. | | 2016 — 2017 | ProffBit | Partner & System Dev | Business SaaS with PHP, Laravel, VueJS. | | 2016 — 2017 | Experis Norge | System Dev (Contract) | Consultant at Guilty via Experis IT. | | 2015 — 2016 | ABAX | System Developer | C#/.NET, CQRS, EventSourcing, Microservices. | | 2014 — 2015 | FrontTek AS | Web Developer | Joomla SaaS for construction. Acquired by ABAX. | | 2012 — 2014 | Elkem Bremanger | IT Apprentice | IT apprenticeship. Where it all began. |
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