Feel the magic of kool.

Switching to Linux

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

making the switch sucked, but i am so happy i did and i will stay on Linux.

i think it’s a bit unfair when sharing frustrations with switching to a new operating system. i have decades of experience with Windows, i know where to look in the system when i need to fix something, where how to do this or that. when some new ~~obstacle~~ feature was introduced, i could find out some way around that.

I write in lowercase

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

i decided that from now on, i’ll just write my blog posts the way i normally do: i follow pretty much all grammatical rules, except i don’t do uppercase letters.

the exceptions to this are names and shortenings of not too-well-known names. i will capitalize names like Windows, macOS, Debian, POSIX, GNOME, NixOS, GTK, Intel, AMD, POLA, etc.

i will probably not capitalize names like json, laser, usb, ssd, and such because i think they are common enough for most people to use as just normal words.

Replacing Google Search with Kagi

Mon, 12 May 2025 19:37:36 +0200

Kagi is a paid search engine, and I’ve been using it for about three months now.

I like, and I will continue using it. It’s not only that it’s a competitor with Google (hooray underdog!), but it actually provides some features that I use.

Quality of results

The quality of the search results are really good. When I first made the switch I was very skeptical of the overall quality of the results.

Using Swift macros for better DX

Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

When migrating our app to become Swift 6 compatible, I took the opportunity to take a look into Swift macros, since our storage helper had a lot of duplicate boilerplate code.

Using macros

Mapping API data models to Core Data models included a lot of (almost) duplicate code for every method: calling code in the correct context, fetching existing (or creating new) models, saving context, etc.

I created a macro which smooths out this process, while still being type-safe. This is what a mapping method looks like:

My Hacker News is a little bit prettier

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:12:20 +0200

Hacker News has a dated style. I’ve come to like the design, but it could really do with some modernization. So I did.

This is what I see when I go to news.ycombinator.com

This is not a clone of the site. This is what I see when I go to Hacker News – all done with some custom injected CSS (and JavaScript). I will put all the code at the bottom of this post.

My Involvement in the Inscryption Community

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:16:57 +0200

Ever since the release of the game Inscryption I’ve been part of the community, building tools and creating content around it.

I’ve done so many different things, that I felt the need to write these down. This list is non-exhaustive, as I’ve probably forgtten some things.

The list

I made a fan-made card generator for the game Inscryption, that has been used over 400k times. This project started when I made some easily printable PDFs for the base game cards.

SwiftUI iOS list styles (with images)

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:17:48 +0200

Introduction

SwiftUI provides multiple styles for list, but it might not always be obvious what difference there are between them.

This is a comparison grid of all iOS list styles, described in [STYLES]. The code for the list is written out at the bottom of the page.

Comparisons

.plain

.inset

.grouped

.insetGrouped

.sidebar

Code

List {
 Section {
 Text("Apple")
 Text("Banana")
 } header: {
 Text("Favorites")
 } footer: {
 Text("The fruits which are most tasty")
 }

 Section {
 Text("Orange")
 }
}

References

[STYLES]: Apple Inc., ListStyle, Apple Developer Documentation

SwiftUI iOS List default selection with NavigationSplitView

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 02:48:52 +0200

Introduction

Looking through Apple’s documentation, I found no clear example of how to set a default selected option for a List in a NavigationSplitView.

This post shows how to the the default selected option in a list, and how to best interact with a split view.

Example

Clear example of how to set a default selected option for a sidebar List in a NavigationSplitView.

@State private var selectedId: String? = "banana"

NavigationSplitView {

 List(selection: $selectedId) {

 NavigationLink(value: "apple") {
 Text("Apple")
 }

 NavigationLink(value: "banana") {
 Text("Banana")
 }

 }
} detail: {
 Text("\(selectedId ?? "Nothing selected")")
}

We use "NavigationLink" with a "value:" parameter instead of navigating to a new view, and keep track of the selection in "selectedId"; the “selected” value must be optional for iOS [1].

Salary transparency

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 14:30:51 +0200

This is a list of all my yearly salaries for each tech job I have had.

By open, voluntary transparency we can help to end stigmas around discussing pay and help ensure that the next generations of people in tech are treated fairly.

— Xe Iaso, Salary Transparency

Salaries are listed in Swedish kronor (SEK). To get an approximation in American dollars (USD), the rule of thumb is to divide by 10.