Serious debugging

When i started this blog the intention was to write about application security. I chose the name "Fix in the wild" as a twist to "Exploit in the wild."
I later realized that I was actually trying to fix quite a few things in the wild. One example was trying to reduce the number of snails in our garden. But the real fight soon started fixing some wild creatures indoors.
Our house was infested with grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma Longicaudata). We saw them frequently in the basement, but they also journeyed through most of the house. More and more we saw them getting trapped in drawers and kettles in the kitchen. We had to do something about this before it made one or more family member crazy.
We started making some traps. Silverfish tend to get trapped in kettles and other objects of metal, glass and plastic with smooth and steep sides. We tried to make some traps where they could climp up, fall in and not get out. But the real problem was to find an effective lure. I must say that we were quite lucky, because one of the first things we tested turned out to work well. Suddenly we had a very effective trap, and best of all it was fully non-toxic!
This was totally different from what I was working on in my day job, but at one point these two worlds actually touched each other:

As we now were on the right path countless iterations of improvements to trap and lure followed. And to make a long story short we got increasingly better results, started a company and designed a trap for mass production. Then we had to figure out designs, webshop, suppliers, bottles for lure, accounting, and all the other bits and pieces necessary to launch the product.
Now we have already taken our first orders and welcome everyone to https://www.silverfish.no. Initially we only take orders from Norway in our webshop. Give us some time and we'll see if we can serve more countries. With time I'll perhaps even have time to write about security again...