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.

RNoAF Christmas Star 2022

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 the same in iEX. It's quite simple, and it's well explained in the IEx documentation.

Enabling it for single sessions can be done by starting IEx in the following way:

iex --erl "-kernel shell_history enabled"

Enabling it system-wide can be done by setting the following environment variable (Unix-like systems):

export ERL_AFLAGS="-kernel shell_history enabled"

Now, once you've done this you can enjoy having all of your IEx history available using the arrow up and arrow down keys, as well as the Ctrl+r trick mentioned earlier.

Remember iEX history

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:

..and many more since the late 90s that I don't have any record of, sadly.

This time I've abandoned the WordPress ship, which was great, in favour of the hypermodern headless CMS ship. To be more concise, my website is now built using Prismic.io and Next.js. It's hosted on Vercel.

I spend at least half of my time developing React applications. Being able to do the same with my own website, and client websites for that matter, suits me perfectly. The combination of any headless CMS (there are many great ones, and I'd really like to try Sanity.io), Next.js and Vercel is truly a great developer experience.

There are also some limitations. Some are specific to Prismic.io and some are more general. So far I've been able to work around most of them without too much hassle.

There you have it. Rest assure there will be a new post of this kind at some point.

Until then, I hope you enjoy my new website.

PS: You can use Cmd+K or Win+K to open the search palette which gives you easy access to all the content on this website.

Oops, I did it again...

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 there’s an update version of the npaste-vscode plugin with the following changes:

The commands for pasting is split into two: only the selected text or the current file.

Changed default keyboard shortcuts to CTRL/CMD+ALT+, for pasting the selected text and CTRL/CMD+ALT+. for pasting the current file.

Going forward I’m planning on rewriting the plugin completely, maybe using Typescript. There’s also one feature that npaste supports that could be very handy to have available in VSCode: Downloading a paste by its URL and opening it in a new file.

Stay tuned for more information about this.

npaste-vscode updated

I'm Kim, a full-stack web developer and entrepreneur based in Bodø, Norway. Currently occupied with running my own company, being a father and raising a little standard poodle.

Full-stack web developer, business owner and tech geek.

RNoAF Christmas Star 2022

Remember iEX history

Oops, I did it again...

npaste-vscode updated

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