Amanda Stjerna

I preordered a Tangara music player from CrowdSupply in October 2024.

In which yours truly churns through the September/October 2023 archive of CommonCrawl to find all HTML forms validating inputs using regular expressions.

People talk a lot about how they don't like their phones anymore.

Ingen verkar kunna förklara exakt vad som ska "bli lättare" om förslaget på en ny könsidentitetslag faktiskt går igenom så jag tänkte jämföra rekvisiten i lagtexterna efter bästa förmåga.

In which I try out the only cloud storage provider left to try and find it lacking.

I have added a new ongoing project to the publications section, and added a list of software and hardware I use after noticing that finding such recommendations online is getting increasingly difficult.

Mozilla, the confusing combo of foundation and company behind the web browser Firefox recently laid off a substantial number of workers, citing economic reasons.

The reMarkable is very much an early adopter technology.

Hypothesis is an implementation of Property-based testing for Python, similar to QuickCheck in Haskell/Erlang and test.check in Clojure (among others).

This September, I started a one-year internship at CERN's Database department (more specifically the IT-DB-IMS department, as they are clearly very fond of hierarchies).

On most of my machines, I treat the default Downloads folder as a staging area: it's where things arrive before being filed away wherever they belong.

I recently got a 10 x 6.25-inch Graphic Monoprice drawing tablet via Massdrop.

As Jessie now uses systemd by default, the old trick of editing /etc/default/acpi-support doesn't work.

I have a method for teaching myself complex new things that I have developed over my 8 years (and going!)

Install the .deb from steam: sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb.

I like the focus follows mouse focus behaviour.