The Tech Enabler

October 2025

Software engineering primer for non software engineers

With AI providing a route for people without software engineering backgrounds to produce code, I figured giving some context on the important parts of…

Oct 21 • 

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Helping others save spoons

Time management is hard. Effective use of time on things you enjoy or you benefit from can really help to make dreams reality. Even more so if you're…

Published on Saving Spoons • Oct 2

September 2025

Norwegian Elections and news tech preperations

Last election, Norway’s biggest news site (VG) went down for around 3 hours. This time, we made sure it didn't.

Sep 9 • 

Noah Hall

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Something I made for myself - hiraeth, gobaith, and derw

There are two personality traits I value highly in myself: the desire to do things correctly, and the desire to be pragmatic.

Sep 6 • 

Noah Hall

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August 2025

Gut-feelings vs metrics

Often as developers, we spend too much time in blacks and whites. We assume too much. Developers often want things to fit in perfectly neat boxes…

Aug 5 • 

Noah Hall

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July 2025

Reviewing a journalistic vibe-coded application

How easily could we run vibe-coded applications in production in a news company?

Jul 28 • 

Noah Hall

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Schibsted's Open Source office

Open Source is an important yet overlooked part of a company’s stack, and our office is dedicated to supporting or encouraging open source. We are a…

Jul 23 • 

Noah Hall

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Running a vibe-code platform (Coder) on your own infrastructure

Non-devs are vibe-coding programs, without any knowledge on how to read or write code. There’s no fighting it: the growing number of AI tools make it…

Jul 17 • 

Noah Hall

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Programming affordance: when a language's patterns make it natural to make mistakes

Many of my philosophies in work life, my volunteer life, and my personal life stem from experiences. As a developer, many of those come from being burnt…

Jul 10 • 

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Announcing: Egoless Engineering, a tech enablement handbook

I spend a lot of my time writing, reading, thinking. Often I write to solve problems: either my own problems, or to help others solve their own…

Jul 1 • 

Noah Hall

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June 2025

Hosting a vibe-coding hackathon

I recently hosted a general “Data & AI” hackathon at Schibsted, for all and any employees who wanted to join. It got me thinking about how vibe-coding…

Jun 21 • 

Noah Hall

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