I’m installing Windows on a new machine for the first time in forever and during installation I had to use my other machine to download drivers so it could connect to the internet and continue. As a mac user it surprises me but I guess it shouldn’t. Maybe this Intel WiFi 7 card is just too new…

when doing research on how to format stuff and you’re looking at UN CEFACT codes, have you dug too deep? https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/wiki/Using-UN-CEFACT-Codes

majorly nerdsniped myself today by fixing bugs that were easy to manually fix, but, now I have fully refactored my script and fixed the problem 😅

three pokes until all blood was collected for tests today, par for getting blood out of my miserly veins. the nurse seemed amused by my warnings that I’m often a difficult case, then a bit relieved afterward that this was normal 😁

I keep getting surprised when overtaken by others while walking here in Sweden. Back in Singapore I was the one overtaking people. Then again, so many Swedes tower over me, and I at least cottaged over people in Singapore 😉

a tea filter ball (one of those little mesh ball on a chain) and a Clever Dripper really works great for brewing oolong tea 😁

my brother’s computer was lagging, and after debugging we decided to get more RAM. He tried installing, first time. After booting still only 16gb, he knew it was supposed to click, but it felt like a lot of pressure and it might break…

Went over. Applied pressure. click “oh, that’s all?”

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! 🥳

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 quest of starting my own company, now the waiting begins

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

urgh. I’m trying out ChatGPT, and it really is telling me everything is a great idea, just like South Park said:

(I really don’t feel I get this from Claude, but maybe my personal base prompt helps there?)

Being back and speaking Swedish every day, and more than in years, I have felt that my Swedish has atrophied a bit. That I’m not able to express myself as well in it as in English, so I decided to read a bit more in Swedish.

I ended up getting a very contemporary author and one very much not. I read Backman’s blog back before he got his first book published, so I knew how funny he was and I read half of Beartown yesterday, he’s really nailing the storytelling. I had a hard time putting the book down.

Strindberg is famous and I haven’t ever read or seen anything by him (that I know of), so why not. I suspect it’ll be a harder read in many ways. It was a very random pick, because I just strolled around the library (second library card down, now I can use Libby from my Kobo), and I totally picked it because Ghost has a song called Spöksonat, so why not…

my application to register as residing in Sweden (folkbokförd) has been approved, no longer a ghost merely living here.

I can now get a convenience store membership since the systems can look me up 🙄🥳

I really miss having an induction stovetop. it really is so much better than a normal electric one

okay, don’t turn on the dishwasher while running the kettle. upside, I know the breaker works, and I’m happy it’s flip switch instead of having to replace fuses 🙂

today I found a shop that has specialty coffee Krukmakeri Hemjord (amongst other things) in Kristinehamn, and the owner has the same name as I do and is a proper coffee nerd.

He’s been telling me about the coffees as I was planning to sit here a couple of hours, and we ended up with Ethiopian coffees, and I am now trying an anaerobic Ethiopian. While I have tried this in the past I haven’t known what to expect of it properly, and now that I know the citrusy/acidic is the point of this it’s quite nice as I like sour/acidic. Before this cup I had a similar but washed, and it was very tame in comparison. Very nice, and coincidentally they’re even brewing with the Clever Dripper (which I got recently), so I have some practical ideas for how to repeat at home.