bjorn.now

I keep getting surprised when overtaken by others while walking here in Sweden.

a tea filter ball (one of those little mesh ball on a chain) and a Clever Dripper really works great for brewing oolong tea 😁

In this devlog I’ll make a change in my n8n POSSE setup, that could’ve taken ~an hour if I kept doing it manually as I had, but instead I spent ~5 hours tidying and removing manual steps for the future.

Use /@<name> to access the value of an attribute when you’ve selected an element with XPath.

my brother’s computer was lagging, and after debugging we decided to get more RAM.

huh?

and my company careful chaos AB is now approved with Bolagsverket!

I have been working on automating my POSSE setup, and ended up trying n8n and it has been a great experience, there are so many plugins that it’s mostly just wiring things together.

Apple Notes can evaluate calculations with variables that update as you change them.

I have enjoyed doing the daily Explainle.org for the last couple of days.

and now the bank has confirmed that I’ve sent the money, and sent it on to Bolagsverket.

Disposable code is here to stay by Charity Majors.

aktiekapital sent for starting my company, the bank has talked with me and decided I’m allowed to have an account with them, next up, get approved by the gov’t. also TIL, in Singapore you only need $1 as starting share capital and in SE it’s a minimum of…

the first (digital) forms signed on the quest of starting my own company, now the waiting begins

Don’t quote regex patterns in Bash [[ ]] tests, because they’ll match literally.

The regex | (or) operator splits the pattern left or right unless explicitly grouped.

I just caught myself thinking, “I need to get coasters” so turns out that’s a thing I’m missing from my Singapore stuff 😅

Execute the data node/step and pin it, instead of rerunning the workflow or the step that relies on that data, when modifying a step that needs fresh data.

Hugo’s resources.Get only finds files in assets/, not static/.

urgh.

Being back and speaking Swedish every day, and more than in years, I have felt that my Swedish has atrophied a bit.

my application to register as residing in Sweden (folkbokförd) has been approved, no longer a ghost merely living here.

Use usermod -l newuser -d /home/newuser -m olduser when renaming a user account, because it’ll update all relevant system files and move the home folder in one go.

Use curl -k --resolve bjorn.now:443:127.0.0.1 https://bjorn.now when testing an HTTPS site locally using Caddy, instead of curl -k -H "Host: bjorn.now" https://localhost, because Caddy relies on SNI and refuses the connection if it doesn’t know which host…

I really miss having an induction stovetop. it really is so much better than a normal electric one

Use :focus-visible instead of :focus, because it will only show when helpful.

okay, don’t turn on the dishwasher while running the kettle. upside, I know the breaker works, and I’m happy it’s flip switch instead of having to replace fuses 🙂

Now that I’ve moved back to Sweden without most of my stuff (it’ll be on a ship soon enough), everyone’s got suggestions on necessities.

A rhubarb pie with whipped cream and a cup of coffee today I found a shop that has specialty coffee Krukmakeri Hemjord (amongst other things) in Kristinehamn, and the owner has the same name as I do and is a proper coffee nerd.

The Emperor’s light shines upon my acquired reading material

I see that The Northern Boys are playing in London in December, so now I have scheduled a 5-day trip to London 🥳 Also, seems I have to apply to be allowed into the UK now 🤷 Update: okay, I got an email after 5m that I was approved.

I have managed to do one important thing today: I got a library card!

I’m moving back to Sweden, and something that surprised me was that if you’ve been registered as living abroad, becoming a registered resident again (folkbokförd) takes 4-6 weeks of processing.

Recycling bins are for packaging, not the products themselves.

a cute squirrel from my morning walk

I was playing this game to stack chairs on a car that moves in a circle with my niece, and while doing so, it somehow reminded me that we’re at the end of Q3, and it felt eerily familiar to some sights at work…

to refresh a link preview in Telegram open a chat with Webpage Bot and send the URL, for those cases where you fix a typo or update the image.

attending the weekly operations review and the chat ended up talking about euphemisms as someone said that an incident is an “unscheduled learning opportunity” (I agree, and this mindset for the ops meeting is 💯): rapid unscheduled disassembly something w…

and after realizing for the umpteenth time how annoying it is to spell out this domain name, which I do love, I decided to register bjorn.now to point people to my /now page and this domain.

I told Peter that I’m going to have to install a new VPS because my existing one has been humming along since 2015 and is wildly out of date, and so are my Ansible roles.

the joy of dealing with things international: DHL refuses to send my work laptop to Singapore using the standard mobile site because it’s too valuable, it might work on some other site, which doesn’t work on my phone.

Now that I’m getting stuff for the new apartment I’m getting a lot of stuff from Biltema.

first coffee on the new balcony after moving in to my furnished rental in Karlstad yesterday …I feel the need to point out that the “You’re the best” coffee mug is the apartment’s.

I told a friend ‘I have historically had an apparent predilection for chicken videos 😅’ and I feel the need to elaborate… It’s all a big misunderstanding.

after the co-op (BRF) board met it has been deemed okie-dokie to lease an apartment to me and I have a place to live in Sweden 🥳

something I have missed living in Singapore is going to concerts and I just saw that Electric Callboy is going to Stockholm on the 5th of November, and now, so am I 🤘😁 (gearing up to be a 5th of November to never ever be forgot)

Hasse and I went for a walk into Karlstad city center yesterday and spotted this vending machine right by Klaraälven and near the opera.

I found some super shrooms when out on a walk, time to go big like Super Mario!

My recipe for Arvid Nordquist mellanrost.

I came across Steph Ango’s Concise explanations accelerate progress: If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations.