Random Notes

This post is mostly a note for myself, but maybe it can be of use for others.

The past year Shai-Hulud et al have wreaked havoc on NPM, PyPI, and other package ecosystems.

I hate that so many car repair instructions are hidden in closed forums or lost in the memory hole that is YouTube, so here's some notes on repairs we recently did ourselves on our 2021 Volkswagen ID.4.

Christmas Eve, 2012.

I use my devices in English.

Disclaimer!

Here's a little JavaScript/TypeScript pop quiz: how can signal in the following code be undefined, leading to a failure when you try to add the event listener?

A new blog requires new styles, and the biggest change this time was that I changed the font to New Computer Modern.

It's somewhat of a rule for me to rewrite my blog in a new blog engine every couple of years.

For the past 4 days — and probably more since I don't have logs beyond that — Facebook has been hitting the /robots.txt of my self-hosted Forgejo instance several times per second.

I got some noise-cancelling headphones last spring — the Sennheiser Momentum 4 to be exact — and while I did do some cursory research into them, it turns out my knowledge was limited and I had some perhaps silly preconceptions.

After making websites for more than 20 years, I still keep finding new HTML elements.

We recently swapped our biogas powered Volkswagen Golf to a 2021 ID.4, a battery-electric vehicle from the same manufacturer.

I was notified yesterday that email sending was failing in Code::Stats.

I have a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 4 noise canceling headphones.

Elixir has a configuration system that supports configuring projects at runtime but also at compile time.

The best view in Turku.

A long time ago, my grandpa gave me his pocket watch.

In last September, I wrote about my home server being aggressively scraped by AI companies.

I feel so old.

An Sr1 rounds one of the tight bends in Vaajakoski.

As Firefish, my fediverse instance software, had gone into maintenance mode and wouldn't be updated in the future, I needed to move off of it.

As I logged in to my fediverse instance running on my home server today, I was thinking it was running strangely slow.

We have a battery powered automatic soap dispenser that you can use without touching it.

I got a new ISP recently and for the first time ever, a possibility of using IPv6 on a wired home network.

This is a post about how I set up the Valheim dedicated server for socket activation with Systemd, so that it can be started and shut down on demand.

Using Gleam packages in an Elixir project is not as simple as adding {:lib, "1.2.3"} to your mix.exs, but it's pretty close.

I've been moving stuff to my new home server and been setting up services with Caddy.

The old acid tower stands next to the Nokia stream as a reminder of times past.

This week I encountered a post by Matti Vuori on the fediverse, and its 320 by 200 pixel photo with 16 colours intrigued me.

Here's a short Gleam trick – that I'm actually removing from Scriptorium since it's no longer used there – but that I think deserves a little post anyway.

I use my bicycles to commute to work year round.

It's a rite of passage for a programmer to write a blog engine.

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is one of the greatest helps to programmers when dealing with datetime values.

I first came upon Elixir in 2013 (wow, it's been 8 years?).

When we recently moved to a new home, I had to get a lawnmower.

The grave accent, or more commonly in programmer circles, the backtick.

Five years ago, I was using a web service called Codeivate to track my programming habits.

I've written about Elixir configuration in an earlier post, describing the differences in the configuration styles.

My latest musical find is an Australian sister duo of Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, who play chamber folk, or "haunted folk" as they like to call it.

Last week I got a very curious email in my inbox.

After setting up AhlCode and figuring out the taxing and accounting, I'm able to start selling Code::Stats stickers again.

On the 11th of May I set up a sole proprietorship with the name AhlCode.

Configuring Elixir applications is a common problem point for new developers and I've seen many questions about it in the community chats.

This morning I was contacted by a Code::Stats user from China in our Gitter channel, asking if the website was down.

I've long had certain issues with modern web development, and I even wrote a little tool of my own to help me manage such an environment.

After moving Code::Stats to its own server, the old Online.net box this blog was running on was going to waste, and more importantly, wasting my money.

Unicode contains a lot of great and useful things.

I was doing some Node.js V8 profiling work at the office near the end of the day and noticed my profile processing was taking a long time.