From the Blog
Articles on infrastructure, Laravel & open source
How Hard Can US Sales Tax Be
I was building a billing engine, so I had to handle tax. The EU was hard but knowable. Then I looked at the US and said the sentence that sits right at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve. What came out the other side was not tax logic, it was an ETL pipeline against forty government websites.
One Identity Layer Instead of Five
Every product needs login, organizations, roles, SSO and an audit trail. I had built that more than once, a little differently each time. Identity is the last thing you want five diverging copies of, so it became laravel-id: a contract-driven auth and identity framework for Laravel.
2018
UAV Commercial Show London
EasyInspect at the Denmark Pavilion in London. Showing Inspection Cloud to European drone operators and meeting clients like SBB, Vejdirektoratet, and Sund & Bælt.
EasyInspect at Commercial UAV Expo
Showing Inspection Cloud at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas. Booth #132, good conversations about scaling drone inspection workflows for enterprise clients.
2017
Launching Inspection Cloud at TUS Nordics
After two years of building in stealth, I finally showed Inspection Cloud publicly at TUS Nordics in Odense. Innovation Fund Denmark backed us with a Grand Solutions grant. The response was overwhelming.
Laracon EU 2017: First Time
I took two developers from EasyInspect to Laracon EU in Amsterdam. First Laracon. First time meeting Taylor. We were building drone inspection software on Laravel and it felt like the right community to be part of.
2013
Running Denmark's Largest TeamSpeak Hosting
From 2013 to 2016 I ran what was probably Denmark's largest TeamSpeak 3 server hosting through Cbox. 1.5 kr per slot, 99.99% uptime, DDoS protection, instant provisioning. Then Discord happened.
Eventmanager: Accreditation for Festivals
Up to 40% of festival visitors are accredited guests who need different handling than ticket holders. I built Eventmanager for Ringsted Festival to manage the complexity.
2010
Building Broker Telephony for Danske Bank
I built secure broker telephony systems for Danske Bank with direct secondary lines, logging, and high-security requirements. Implementations in London, Stockholm, and New York.
Building an ERP System in Arezzo
I spent months in Tuscany building a web-based ERP/CRM for Italian jewelry manufacturer Bacio Italy. Supply chain, stock, dealers, orders, production. Then they went bankrupt.
2005
Hosting Unity's First Public Release
Before Unity became a multi-billion dollar game engine, they were a small team in Copenhagen. Cbox hosted their first public release.
100,000 Websites on One Linux Server
Hotserv.dk was a free web hosting platform I built when hosting was still expensive. Custom-compiled Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a single server running 100,000+ sites.
