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NOPE

I've seen both Get out and Us , and although it was long before I started reviewing anything here on my website, I remember that I enjoyed both of these movies. That's not what I'm left with after having watched NOPE . The film has all the technical mastery you'd expect from Peele—gorgeous cinematography, tense moments, and some genuinely creepy scenes. The concept is interesting, and the…

The Handmaid's Tale

I am currently reading this book as part of the NRK podcast Leseklubben . More to come when I've finished reading it.

Ingen skal drukne

This book is the second in a series of currently three books. It's about the Falck family and their intrigues.

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I will be posting changes to my website simply as notes tagged with changelog . This is the very first changelog of this site, and it summarizes the most important changes I've done since I started wiping the dust of this site in April this year. I've added a Buttondown newsletter integration. Whenever I publish a new post on my blog, an email will be sent to my subscribers. I've added a «Reply by…

Our dog: Kento

I haven't yet posted any pictures of or information about our beloved dog Kento, an almost 3 years old fawn colored Standard Poodle. Here are a few pictures of him growing up: Kento at the age of 3 months. Kento at the age of 3 months. A cold 1.5 year old Kento getting warmed. A 2 year old Kento. The name Kento is Japanese and has several meanings; Smart person, cure for depression, happiness,…

Project Music 2025

I've been a Spotify Premium subscriber for many, many years. I can't say I've had any problems with their apps or service, there's just something about these «access to everything for a small monthly amount» services that I don't like. It’s easy to get lost in endless playlists, and forget what it means to connect with an album. Back in ~2014 I used to buy my music on iTunes. Thinking back to this…

listmonk

I haven't heard about listmonk before, but it's something I'd definitely would like to try at some point. Its own description is: «Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager» .

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This is the very first note on my new website. It's a GREAT note. It doesn't say much, but still – it marks the beginning of a new note-hosting era for this website. From now on, this is where my thoughts live. Not in a walled garden. Not in an algorithmic feed. Just here – short notes, ideas, links, things I want to remember or share. A quiet feed, just for me – and anyone else who finds it.

Mindful Palettes № 122

I like this color palette, maybe I have to put it to use somewhere.

Back to basics – again..

I know... I’ve made quite a few attempts to get this site looking, feeling, and working the way I want – but none have really stuck. So, I hereby declare this attempt number six — if we’re only counting the documented ones. If you're curious about the other times I've changed my website platform, here you go: Going static (2014) New website platform (2017) Going WordPress again (2020) Website…

RNoAF Christmas Star 2022

The Royal Norwegian Air Force practices formation flying every year in December. This year, they were schedule to fly over Bodø at 11:22 on December 8th. I managed to capture them with my zoom lens just a couple minutes after their scheduled arrival. It wasn't the greatest light for photographing moving aircrafts, but I managed to get a couple of photos that turned out somewhat okay.

Remember iEX history

I'm often finding myself crafting some of the most complex and ingenious stuff ever known to IEx men, only to find myself having to recreate it minutes later because I'm now in a new IEx session. Annoying? Yes. Solvable? Yes! Here's how. We're all familiar with using Ctrl+r for searching our shell history of crafty one-liners, right? Great. With that out of the box, let's see how we can achieve…

Oops, I did it again...

It has happened many times before, and this sure ain't going to be the last time. I've jumped off the WordPress ship and over to the headless CMS ship. If you're curious about the other times I've changed my website platform, here you go: Going static (2014) New website platform (2017) Going WordPress again (2020) Website changes – again (2021) .and many more since the late 90s that I don't have…

npaste-vscode updated

I have written an encrypted pastebin for text and images called npaste. This post goes through the recent changes in the VSCode plugin for npaste. I’ve also created a plugin that allows you to quickly upload pastes from Sublime Text 3 , which was the editor I was using at that point. I did also write a plugin for Visual Studio Code, but it was a bit rushed and I wasn’t very happy with it. Now…

Going solo

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney For the last ten years, I’ve been working as an employed developer. If you have a look at my CV , you’ll see that more than nine of these years have been spent at a local company called iBooking . Since February 2021 I’ve been hired as a backend developer at Dekode Interaktiv, doing WordPress integrations and such. During the…

Nice weather = quality time

Last week and especially last weekend, we had some really nice weather. We decided to spend most of the time outside on various adventures, most of them including bathing. Here are a few photos from the trips.

wp shell

If you’re a WordPress backend developer and don’t use wp shell, you must continue reading. I have this imaginary plugin that is used to fetch some data from a third-party service and store every item as a post of a custom post type. Now I need to figure out how something deep down in this very complex integration works, but there’s a problem: To be able to test it locally I’d have to start an…

Interval running with Myworkout GO

I happen to know some of the people involved with the app Myworkout GO . On their website, they claim the following: Do more than one 4×4 workout sessions per week to increase your cardiac capacity by +0,5% per week. and If you do two a week you’ll keep the health of a 20 year-old until you are 70 years old. I’m in no position to claim that these statements are incorrect – or correct, for that…

npaste – a simple paste bin

At work, I often need to share secrets and other important information with my colleagues. We use Slack to communicate with each other, and that’s good enough for the most part. Now and then, we share secret stuff. Like, top secret. There are many paste bins on the internet that we could use, but I don’t really trust them for these things. So I created my own: npaste . npaste is a very simple…