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"2025-08-01T15:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08740-9f07-701c-a7c6-d52a8bced325", "title": "More frequent, smaller posts", "url": "https://bjorn.now/blog/2025/08/01/more-frequent-smaller-posts/?utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2025-08-01T15:10:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08740-9f07-701c-a7c6-d52a8c4c6899", "title": "Your name is still on it — learning to ride the AI motorcycle without crashing", "url": "https://bjorn.now/blog/2025/07/24/your-name-is-still-on-it/?utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2025-07-24T15:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08740-9f07-701c-a7c6-d52a8c8f3280", "title": "Which hat are you wearing? ...you wouldn't wear a beanie to the beach", "url": "https://bjorn.now/blog/2025/07/12/which-hat-are-you-wearing/?utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2025-07-12T07:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08740-9f07-701c-a7c6-d52a8ce091d9", "title": "Working with Go's test cache on CI — be fast by avoiding work, while doing the important work", "url": 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really does get the message through", "url": "https://bjorn.now/blog/2010/02/21/how-to-disable-bold-fonts-in-xterm/?utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2010-02-21T22:36:19+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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Create space for serendipityoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2025
https://bjorn.now/scrap/2025-09-05t182450/?utm_medium=feedoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
https://bjorn.now/scrap/2025-09-04t113146/?utm_medium=feedoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2025
https://bjorn.now/scrap/2025-09-03t211458/?utm_medium=feedoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
https://bjorn.now/scrap/2025-09-03t203343/?utm_medium=feedoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
https://bjorn.now/scrap/2025-09-03t213309/?utm_medium=feedoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
https://bjorn.now/scrap/2025-09-03t132628/?utm_medium=feedoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
Does the word change the "quick fix?" — hack/jugaad vs kludge/bodgeoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2025
Which of your colleagues are screwed?original ↗
28 Aug 2025
Return of multi-tasking? by Kent Beckoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Life never gave us lemons, we invented them all by ourselvesoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Reasonable assumptions …and why they're (nearly) impossibleoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2025
Angry at the genie …getting exactly what I wished for, eventuallyoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2025
What makes a good software engineer? “this is what would change my mind”original ↗
21 Aug 2025
gum: clean user interactions for shell scriptsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
DIKW pyramid when working with genies …classification of different types of understandingoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
Non-interactive shells will source the file pointed at by a variable at launchoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
Syntax for declaring and using YAML anchorsoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
YAML does *not* support unsplatting/merging listsoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
Use Commas as Prefix for Your Scriptsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
/usr/bin/env handles commands with subcommandsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2025
Anthropic on prompting for agents …and musing on genies possibly teaching empathyoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2025
Simon Sinek on AI and the value of struggleoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2025
Socrates on writing and learningoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2025
When everyone gets a genie — learning to handle expertise you didn't earnoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2025
Drone CI handling of ${VAR} vs. $VARoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Drone CI's DAG ignores skipped stepsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Drone CI's when targets the merge target for PR eventsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
How "$@" vs $@ expands in shelloriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Link rel="canonical" is like a correlation IDoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Pythong doesn't require typing for dict and listoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Scripts/commands in a shell script inherits access to STDINoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
You can view the webhooks that GitHub sends in your project settingsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Enabling macOS fingerprint reader for sudooriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
More frequent, smaller postsoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
Your name is still on it — learning to ride the AI motorcycle without crashingoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2025
Which hat are you wearing? ...you wouldn't wear a beanie to the beachoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2025
Working with Go's test cache on CI — be fast by avoiding work, while doing the important workoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2025
Running effective meetings uses the same skills as running successful projects — From meeting minutes to project milestonesoriginal ↗
3 May 2025

2024

Day-to-day automation using Alfred on your Mac — reducing TOIL outside of your DevOps practiceoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2024
How to make Docker resume downloads …download that final 100KB and not 200MB againoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2024

2022

Sticky blocks in Roam — floating along in your sidebaroriginal ↗
5 Feb 2022

2015

How to find your Apple Watch when you've misplaced it — How I ended up being a sonar bearoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2015
Using multiple versions of Python on Snap CI — Why just play with one snake?original ↗
27 Oct 2015

2013

Python and its included batteriesoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2013

2011

Keeping your Varnish farms configuration in syncoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2011

2010

How to: Setting up a Wikileaks mirrororiginal ↗
5 Dec 2010
How to: Sätta upp en Wikileaksspeglingoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2010
How to disable bold fonts in xterm — Why sometimes repeating yourself really does get the message throughoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2010
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