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Erlend
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Teacher, bassist, and general nerd from Norway. Personal blog over at https://havn.blog. (My dog friend is named Vincent.)
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When the Design Requirements Are Perfect: https://havn.blog/2026/01/17/when-the-design-requirements-are.html
A back of recharchable batteries, next to five products: A remote with a spinning wheel, a moisture detector, a remote with two buttons, a motion detector, and a door/window sensor. The Aqara sensor is about half the height, and not much wider. It uses a small clock-type battery. The Ikea one has a AAA Varta branded battery. I've opened up the packaging and laid out some of them on a table. The door sensor, moisture detector, and two remotes. They are all rounded and pleasant looking.
January 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Software Should Have a Customisable UI: https://havn.blog/2026/01/12/software-should-have-a-customisable.html
Under the address bar there are buttons for back, forward, share, bookmarks, and tabs. The address bar itself has an extensions (and more) button and a refresh button. With the compact UI, you only get a back button and a 'more' button (elipses) — in addition to the extensions and refresh button inside the address bar. Quiche screenshot. It looks pretty similar, but the tool bar has different buttons, which I'll explain below. First four options are different two-line variants, with some pretty common buttons. The next two are one-line variants.
January 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Winter boots advice: https://havn.blog/2026/01/01/winter-boots-advice.html
Two pair of boots. One brown pair of Alden Indy boots and one black pair from Skomaker Dagestad. The latter are beefier. Two worn insoles. One with wool and one with leather. Green derbies, in a tiny amount of snow. They have a pretty beefy sole, even though they have low ankles. My two pairs — here mostly focusing on the black ones.
January 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Yes — Please Include Fewer Chargers and Cables in the Box: https://havn.blog/2025/10/27/yes-please-include-fewer-chargers.html
A pile of cables with a black charger in the middle, which I'll explain in the caption.
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Eller Er Det Sykeliggjøringen Av ADHD Som Er Problemet?: https://havn.blog/2025/10/24/eller-er-det-sykeliggjringen-av.html
Rapportert andel venstrehendte i USA, fra 1900 til 1940. Det var en skarp økning fra 1905, hvor det var rundt 4 %, og fram til 10 % i 1940. Etter 1940 flata et ut, og har stabilisert seg i underkant av 12 %.
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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But Did They Have to Make the iPhones Ugly?: https://havn.blog/2025/09/10/but-did-they-have-to.html
The bottom of an iPhone on top of the bottom of a Samsung phone. The former is much more symmetrical and nice. The back of the white iPhone Air, with the battery pack connected. A white Air in the blue bumper case. The Google Pixel 10's camera bar.
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The Best Cotton Socks (I've Found): https://havn.blog/2025/09/02/the-best-cotton-socks-ive.html
Two different kinds of socks: One blue, with some white stripes, and one off-white with coloured stripes. Different calf lengths. Black, minimalistic sneakers. Brown mocs with leather laces. Dark blue canvas baseball cap.
September 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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PLEASE Stop Evaluating Streaming Services Over How Much They Pay Per Stream: https://havn.blog/2025/08/28/please-stop-evaluating-streaming-services.html
A chart, from the video linked above, that shows that '1k stream will earn' on different services.
August 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Quick Recommendation #12: UFO 50: https://havn.blog/2025/08/27/quick-recommendation-ufo.html
The game's key art, a colourful drawing of many different characters with the word UFO50 in the middle. The UFO 50 menu as you begin. All 50 cartridges are available, but they are dusty and covered in cobwebs, etc. A screenshot from Party House, showing the different quests you can 'purchase' between rounds in a specific scenario. Rock On screenshot. Dinosaurs are attacking the player, which has built things like chickens and 'caveman soldiers' to defend.
August 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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My Compact Stereo Bass Pedalboard: https://havn.blog/2025/08/23/my-compact-stereo-bass-pedalboard.html
A compact pedalboard with the following pedals: Sushi Box Underground Accelerator, Lusithand Alma Comp, Walrus Audio Canvas tuner, Future Impact v4, T-Rex Replay Box, Analogman Mini Chorus, Analog Man Sun Face, and a home made AB switch. The right side of the board, showing three inputs I'll explain below. The left side of the board, with four outputs I'll explain below. It's a little grey square box with a black rocker switch on top. My old switch is black, slightly more narrow but much taller. That one has a regular footswitch and LED.
August 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Oh No, I Think I Might Have to Move to Home Assistant: https://havn.blog/2025/08/22/oh-no-i-think-i.html
I’m standing in front of our house, wearing sun-glasses, t-shirt and jeans. I’m carrying our tiny boy in a beige baby wrap, and you can barely see him in his hat and sun-glasses. Our dog, a large tan eurasier named Vincent, is sitting next to us. The Yale Linus L2, a quite small silver smart lock. An oven connected to a tiny smart plug. Large Philips Hue filament bulb, MagSafe charger with black stickers and a black Flic button. Everything on my bed's backboard.
August 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Playing With Icon Composer and the Bike Icon: https://havn.blog/2025/06/11/playing-with-icon-composer-and.html
The original icon is a yellow roundrect with a penny-farthing where the large front-wheel is a head. This example is a blue background with a sun, two mountains and two clouds. Large, simple shapes. A screenshot from Icon Composer, showing off the icon explained above. Here the spokes are smaller, and there's more of them, and they instead have a subtle white circle behind them.
June 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Locked-In-O-Meter: iPhone Edition: https://havn.blog/2025/05/11/lockedinometer-iphone-edition.html
The Fairphone 5. Samsung Z Flip6. Exploded view of the Fairbuds.
May 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Quick Recommendation #9: Niléane: https://havn.blog/2025/05/11/quick-recommendation-nilane.html
A picture of Niléane. She has long, brown, curly hair, glasses and light-brown skin. She's smiling.
May 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Raycast for iOS Is Out: https://havn.blog/2025/05/01/raycast-for-ios-is-out.html
iOS screenshot. Up top there's AI, Notes, Quicklinks, and Snippets. I can add favourites, and I can chat to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (reasoning) at the bottom.
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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An (Imperfect) Solution for USB-C Devices Without PD: https://havn.blog/2025/04/26/an-imperfect-solution-for-usbc.html
A USB-A mouse, with an adapter to USB-C lying next to it. The adapter connected. It doesn't make the plug much larger.
April 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Making My Phone More Boring: https://havn.blog/2025/04/10/making-my-phone-more-boring.html
My homescreen in greyscale-ish. Calendar widget, countdown widget to the baby, 1Password, calculator, Mail.app, Photos.app, Tidal, OvercSt, Lire and a shortcut hub. The dock is Swiftgram (for Telegram), NotePlan, Paper and Quiche browser. The greyscale settings, which are at around 90 percent.
April 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I Had to Expand the External Storage on My Secondary Mac Mini: https://havn.blog/2025/04/10/i-had-to-expand-the.html
The two enclosures, opened up. Open again, but showing the lids as well. Thermal padding on the USB-C SSD, and on the enclosure of the TB. Closed up, next to each other. The USB-C is about one third the size. The Thunderbolt one comes with a plastic cover.
April 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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✉️ Why, and How, I Use Micro.blog: https://havn.blog/2025/04/04/why-and-how-i-use.html
The tiers from the link above. The form at the bottom of posts. The main button is 'Copy HTML', while the extra manu has 'New Post…', 'Copy HTML', 'Copy Markdown', and 'Delete'. Explained above.
April 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Quick Recommendation #8: Initial D: https://havn.blog/2025/04/04/quick-recommendation-initial-d.html
The cover of the first issue of the manga. A teenager stands infront of his white Toyota Corolla. Takumi's car, a plain-looking AE86. A yellow Mazda RX-7 FD.
April 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Milestone Achieved: Linked to on a Podcast I Like: https://havn.blog/2025/04/03/milestone-achieved-linked-to-on.html
The show art is a cute drawing of the three hosts.
April 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I'm a maximalist who uses performance enhancing drugs to be more minimalist.

(The text is "Half past seven" in Norwegian.)
Analog clock, Siri (because I have to), Control Center, Weather (iStats), BusyCal, FuzzyTime, Sound, Bartender, CPU (iStats), Memory (iStats).
April 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Why I Don't Use LLMs for Facts: https://havn.blog/2025/04/02/why-i-dont-use-llms.html
Screenshot of the last sentence, with two footnotes on it.
April 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Design Challenge: 65% ISO Mac Keyboard, Usable by Everyone: https://havn.blog/2025/03/30/design-challenge-iso-mac-keyboard.html
65-ish % keyboard, with a matching numpad. Both have rotary encoders. Explained below. The keyboard on her Midnight M2 MacBook Air. Option A.
March 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A (New-ish) Game for Lovers of Heroes of Might and Magic 3: https://havn.blog/2025/03/26/a-newish-game-for-lovers.html
A battle screen from Songs of Conquest. It looks a lot like Heroes of Might and Magic 3, but with mostly pixel graphics. The world map in Hero's Hour. It looks a lot like a more pixelated Heros of Might and Magic 2. The combat screen. Chaos and carnage. Another combat screenshot. I'll explain things below.
March 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM