Tobias Locsei

Tobias Locsei

About

Together with my wife I run an ecommerce and web-publishing business. Before that, I studied mechical engineering and physics, did a research year in theoretical astrophysics, did a PhD in applied mathematics, worked for a few years in technology consulting and new product development, and started a website as an experimental online side business. The side business took off and turned out to be a lot of fun, so back in 2013 my wife and I left our jobs to work on it full time and haven’t looked back. These days I spend my time growing our business, playing with my kids, and expanding my coding skills.

Interests

  • Online business
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
  • Indie hacking
  • Clojure & functional programming
  • Gymnastics & bodyweight strength training
  • Barefoot running
  • Hiking

Education

  • PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2008

    Cambridge University

  • BSc (Hons) in Physics, 2004

    Melbourne University

  • BEng Mechanical Engineering, 2003

    Melbourne University

Recent Posts

Aug 15, 2020 7 min read

How to Deploy Your Clojure Web App Painlessly

I’m assuming you’ve written a Clojure web app and you want to get it into production with a minimum of pain, expense and “incidental complexity”. You don’t want DevOps to suck up your time.

Aug 8, 2020 2 min read

How to Set Up SSH Port Forwarding (Tunneling) When AllowTcpForwarding is Disabled

This post is for you if you want to SSH tunnel (with ssh -L ...) into a server that has AllowTcpForwarding set to no in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, and you don’t have the privileges to change that file.

Apr 8, 2020 4 min read

How to Deploy a Cryogen Blog to Netlify

Cryogen is a static site generator written in Clojure while Netlify is a slick and powerful platform for deploying static websites. Can they play well together? Yes! The Cryogen website describes how to deploy to Github Pages, which works fine, but personally I found it easier to deploy my site to Netlify.

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clojure devops jelastic

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