Writings

Caching Elm dependencies on Github Actions — Caching dependencies efficiently can significantly speed up CI runs and improve reliability, as it prevents downloading dependencies every time, reducing exposure to outages and network failures.
2025-02-07 Elm Github Actions

Disable NPM fund message — If you find NPM's funding messages distracting, you can disable them by setting a configuration in different ways.
2023-03-02 Shell

Flatten a directory on Unix systems — When cleaning up a bit on my computer, I wanted to flatten a directory structure. Not wanting to move everything by hand, I searched for a way to automate it.
2023-01-15 Shell macOS

Manually editing chunks in git add --patch — Git allows to stage smaller chunks of code for creating more atomic commits.
2023-01-04 Git

Keep case when replacing text in Vim using vim-abolish — vim-abolish is a plugin that allows users to easily search for and replace text while also providing the option to keep the original case of the text.
2023-01-03 Vim

Home and End keys equivalent on MacBook keyboards — The MacBooks have a shortened keyboard where some keys are left out. Apple has cleverly hidden these keys behind shortcuts.
2022-12-31 macOS

Wrap visual selection using the vim-surround plugin — One nice thing I've discovered using the vim-surround plugin for vim is that you can wrap a visual selection.
2022-12-30 Vim

Using :read in Vim — The vim command :read allows you to input anything from a file into the current buffer. Useful if you want to copy things from another file.
2022-12-27 Vim

Access the last argument of the last command in a shell — Using `$_`, you can access the last argument of the last command executed.
2022-12-26 Shell

Access the last command in a shell — Using !!, you can access the last command executed. Useful for rerunning a previous command.
2022-12-26 Shell

Building A Builder Pattern in TypeScript — Forcing types using type assertions leave your code open for wrong assumptions. I went looking for an alternative.
2021-12-12 Generics Pattern TypeScript

A More Sustainable Blog — After reading Sustainable Web Design, I started looking for ways to reduce the carbon footprint of this blog.
2021-12-06 Design HTML Sustainablity

Pre-render Syntax Highlighting with Prism in Jekyll — To get a considerable performance boost for this blog, I decided to pre-render all the code when building. So no need for a large JavaScript file.
2021-12-01 Jekyll Prism Ruby Sustainablity

JSON Properties as a List when Decoding in Elm — Storing JSON properties as a List when decoding in Elm
2021-11-20 Decoding Elm JSON

Combine Properties when Decoding JSON in Elm — Combining two properties extracted from a JSON-object when decoding JSON in Elm.
2021-11-15 Decoding Elm JSON

Detecting Output Listeners in Angular — Detecting listeners on an EventEmitter in an Angular component.
2021-10-25 Angular EventEmitter TypeScript

Changing Angular Components for Printing — When the user is printing a page, we wanted our components to behave differently without using CSS.
2021-10-24 Angular EventListener TypeScript

Become a Fire Keramik with Kotlin — At my work we started using Kotlin more and more. I wondered how far you could go in writing fully Functional in the language.
2020-08-03 Functional Programming Kotlin

Solving Challenge with Elixir's Compile-Time Functions — I love solving small programming challenges. One of the many challenges on this website is about transcribing DNA nucleotides to RNA nucleotides. I was able to solve this by using Elixir.
2019-05-01 AST Compile Time Elixir Macro

Maybe Don't Use Maybe? — At my work I've come across a code that had more branches than were possible in the logic of the domain.
2018-08-13 Custom Types Elm Maybe Monads

Bulk Association Creation in Rails — During development of an application I stumbled across a situation where it produced N+1 queries and I set out on an adventure improve it.
2015-08-22 ActiveRecord Rails Ruby