bjorn.now

Reset an IKEA Kajplats lightbulb by power cycling it 6 times and then leaving it on until it blinks, then it’ll be in pairing mode again.

Matter over Thread requires IPv6 on your local network, so if you can’t pair the IKEA Kajplats bulb that might be why.

I might’ve just participated in money laundering: a guy walked into the no-cash coffee shop I’m at, craving that sweet, sweet coffee, trying to pay with cash.

beads 1.0.1 flipped the export.auto default to on, so old projects silently start exporting issues.jsonl after upgrade.

When dolt’s journal is corrupted, dolt fsck --revive-journal-with-data-loss will truncate it back to the last valid record.

dolt’s shared server won’t pull until all databases on the server have committed changes, not just the beads project you’re pulling.

You can manually clone a dolt database from its git remote when bd bootstrap or bd init won’t cooperate. bd dolt stop: stop the server in the git repo you’re restoring so you can operate on its database cd ~/.beads/shared-server/dolt: go to the shared dolt

sometimes on windows I can’t delete files, even in an administrator terminal, so I start WSL and rm -rf it. there’s no questions

Migrating an old beads backup to 0.62.0 I got a wall of Warning: failed to restore issues row: Error 1054 (HY000): Unknown column 'hook_bead' in 'issues'.

I had a breakthrough while working on bjornstack that made me realize how I could make an MVP of breadcrumb, the tool I’ve wanted to build for ~18 months.

Warranty Void If Regenerated by Scott Werner (via Valentine): His shop was in a corrugated steel building on Highway 29, between a feed store and a Laundromat.

today’s windows fun: when sshing into a Windows machine (what a modern world we live in) and trying to operate on git repos using Azure DevOps in HTTPS mode, it’ll fail because wincredman doesn’t work over SSH. remote desktop to type git push it is https:…

and now I’ve strung up all the beads experiences from the last couple of days 😆

To switch beads from a per-project dolt server to the shared server, do a backup, configure shared-server, and restore.

I tweak the default beads setup to work with Claude instead of the generic agent integration.

Beads with dolt store data in git refs, not branches, and won’t share it anywhere until you manually configure a remote.

When beads can’t find or create a dolt database, delete the local dolt state and reinit.

Start with the smallest test print you can, no, even smaller, when iterating on a 3D model.

Iterating on a 3D print takes 20+ minutes per attempt (maybe that can be improved?)

I printed a grip strength trainer from Maker World which my mom has been using and said she caught herself opening jars she hadn’t been able to open on her own before.

I didn’t really realize just how big 5mm is until I used it as a ‘reasonable tolerance’ when designing a 3D printed bin.

and now I own an apartment, time for the renovations to begin, and then hopefully I’ll stay here for a while 😄

The Scotty Test: Before proceeding past any failure, ask yourself: “Would Scotty walk past a warp core leak because it existed before his shift?”

git rm --cached <file> will remove a file from git’s tracking but leave it on the filesystem.

Thoughts on Welcome to Gas Town by Bill de hÓra: Steve’s description of Gas Town itself reads like a mash-up of social deduction game mechanics, control-plane software, and management theory.

I shared a prompt to help create “AI expert prompts” to help you learn a domain, and I’m realizing I didn’t mention the dangers.

I was reading Our First Accelerated Expertise Course from Commoncog, and the section Why This Training Approach is So Weird got me keen on seeing if I could get the genie to help me build experts for sensemaking, so I can learn to see the world as those e…

autocorrect made ’teater’ (swedish, you can guess the word) into ’tester’ and somehow that seems correct for me, even if it was ’teater’ this time

I have been wondering how Steve Yegge gets quality when vibing and this seems to be how, from the emergency manual Tending the Invisible Garden: When you work with Gas Town, you don’t usually have time to inspect the code you’re creating.

Use git config core.hooksPath script/hooks and it’ll use the scripts in script/hooks as hooks in the git project.

heh, there’s a warning about gas town burning through tokens… this walk around shops in Karlstad is sponsored by the 2pm quota reset

how often I typo ‘gt’ to ‘git’?

Becoming More by Martijn Faassen: I want to admit that this AI/human me, this centaur me – my human understanding is on occasion limited.

Most developers don’t build new things by Robby Russell: We inherit.

3D printer arrived, unboxed, assembled, calibrated, and currently huffing and puffing at plastic because they be moist. 12 hours until I get to hit print 😭

TIL: if DHL is sending two parcels from the same vendor, shipped at the same time, they might send it to two different places that are kilometers away from each other so you better make sure to set them to the same place.

Set GENERIC_TIMEZONE for n8n or you’ll get ERROR: You specified an invalid date. when you try to publish a time triggered workflow.

Relocating Rigor by Chad Fowler (via Muthu).

Add commands to both permissions.allow and sandbox.excludedCommands to run them outside Claude Code’s sandbox by default, because allow grants permission to run at all and excludedCommands runs them unsandboxed. { "permissions": { "allow": [ "…

Write out colon subcommands explicitly for Claude Code permissions because test:* doesn’t match test:unit (prefix matching treats them as separate commands), and the fallback test* is too broad (matches testAndDestroyEnvironment).

I hoped to be blazing new trails professionally and not because I was dropping the niece off at daycare after 10-20cm of snow (the wind drift makes it hard to estimate)

well, relearning not to run the kettle when just turning on the dishwasher also taught me that my NAS is on the same circuit, guess I should move it to be plugged in on another breaker before it breaks 😅

borrowed a full-sized Swedish keyboard for the new PC, and I swear, my fingers hurt.

also, very impressed by tailscale and how easy it makes creating my own “enterprise-like WAN” where all my machines can talk to each other.

aw hell, switching to a dedicated windows machine cut my iteration time down drastically: browser e2e test went 5m -> 1m. virtualized OS + translation from my arm host to x64 because of old .NET seems to have been quite the culprit for slowness 😅

I’m installing Windows on a new machine for the first time in forever and during installation I had to use my other machine to download drivers so it could connect to the internet and continue.

when doing research on how to format stuff and you’re looking at UN CEFACT codes, have you dug too deep?

majorly nerdsniped myself today by fixing bugs that were easy to manually fix, but, now I have fully refactored my script and fixed the problem 😅

Marking the content/ folder for your Hugo site as a “Source Root” in IntelliJ lets you use Path from Source Root to get the path to the file without the content/ prefix you don’t need when linking internally.

three pokes until all blood was collected for tests today, par for getting blood out of my miserly veins. the nurse seemed amused by my warnings that I’m often a difficult case, then a bit relieved afterward that this was normal 😁