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. To make linking internally easier, I created an Alfred app snippet ({{< relref “{clipboard}” >}}), so now I only have to open the other post, double-tap shift, type “source root”, then run the snippet, and all linked up.

Use /@<name> to access the value of an attribute when you’ve selected an element with XPath. With the expression //*[@class="published-at"] you will get the HTML tag that has class="published-at", and if you then want the datetime property you add /@datetime to get it.

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. The work itself was about making my “scraps,” that is this site’s tweets, be sent out raw to my syndication targets. I feel that sending a link to something you see in the preview, or it could be inline in the post, is a bit much, I should just let it show up in the platform itself.

huh? five hours? I keep being amazed at how the hours fly when coding, even when I feel like I did very little 😅

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. But, I discovered that despite being within the character limit, one of my URLs were truncated when posting to Mastodon. This is because Mastodon does something non-obvious: it treats all URLs as 23 characters, no matter if they’re shorter or longer.

Apple Notes can evaluate calculations with variables that update as you change them. The variable name has to be “one word,” so usual camelCase or PascalCase will likely do you best. I realized this while trying to calculate what height TV bench I should get: The center of the TV should be about eye level, so what height bench should I get given myself and the sofa? Seems around 60cm will be good.

I have enjoyed doing the daily Explainle.org for the last couple of days. It triggers some of the fun bits of language for me. 🙂 The twist compared to straight up “the opposite of this” is that there are “forbidden words” that you’re not allowed to use, and only 100 characters. Luckily for me, it’s relying on an LLM and is therefore quite nerdy, so I can explain it in language I understand

Disposable code is here to stay by Charity Majors. I like the distinction between disposable and durable code: it’s about whether you try to make the code maintainable or not. Most code when working at a company is durable code, because the outcome when we get it wrong is so high (even if it’s just the risk of losing money or at worst, our job). And the idea that we can experiment, create POCs, the 10 variations of an idea to see which one works better… that’s great. Work with the genie and figure it out, then spend the proper time and effort making it durable.

and now the bank has confirmed that I’ve sent the money, and sent it on to Bolagsverket. I love the transparency and setup of their page explaining how long it should take to process my application, there’s a goal (7 working days), and which applications they’re aiming to process this week (those from 14-19th of October). Wish more gov’t services did this. eyes Försäkringskassan

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 25,000 SEK (~3,500SGD)

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

Don’t quote regex patterns in Bash [[ ]] tests, because they’ll match literally. So the below won’t match because it’s looking for a literal $ in the string, instead of matching at the end of the string: Copy Copied! file="https://example.com/blog-post/index.html" [[ "$file" =~ "/index.html$" ]] && echo MATCH But this will:

The regex | (or) operator splits the pattern left or right unless explicitly grouped. Group it using (pattern) if you need to use the match later, or as a non-capturing group (?:pattern) if you do it for clarity. I used to think there was some magic rule about how | decided where to split, but it’s simply: characters and sub-patterns concatenate into a single pattern first, then | splits the entire thing left and right unless you explicitly group it. So while I used to think that prefix_cat|dog would match prefix_cat and prefix_dog, it actually matches prefix_cat and then dog. And that exact problem in a real-world example to find if a page is linking to another, relative or full URLs:

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