The problem.
I have a server at home and I sometimes need to access it from outside the home. So I have pointed a domain to my IP adress and I have done the neccesary firewall magic to get stuff working the way I want. All cool.
However, sometimes my …
This is a text in Swedish, about a song in Swedish
För någon vecka sedan skickade jag ut denna låten. Din värld.
Minimalistisk låt på skånska. Bara min elgitarr och jag. Hoppas du gillar den.
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Varför ser du det du ser? Varför är du omgiven av svek? Varför vet …
I have a bit of a randomly put together home security system.
I have bought things when I have felt the need, and depending on prices at any moment got whatever was appealing and then connected it all toghether in some random way.
The household is me, 2 teenagers and …
This is a text in Swedish, about a Swedish dialect in music
Den har växt på mig ett tag. Skånskan.
Dialekten som jag som nyinvandrad 13-åring i början av 90-talet aldrig tänkte lära mig. Jag ville mycket hellre prata som Kristina, min lärare som tog så väl hand om mig …
A week after I wrote about the laptop dying, it died.
I made a quick decision. Last time I bought a laptop for my private use was in 2012. That laptop really was fantastic and I want to repeat that feat. But still I don't want to spend a fortune …
I have been having problems lately with that my Civilization 6 installation has refused to log into 2K servers and therefore no multiplayer has been possible. I have tried starting it in different ways. I have re-installed it a few times. I have searched the internet for solutions (and asked …
I have a few laptops. All rather old and in more or less sad condition, but I usually use computers until they completely give up. I am writing this on a rather old (2009?) Acer Aspire One running antiX Linux for exampe.
My favorite and best buy of all time …
This is about a song in Swedish, so article in Swedish as well
I slutet av 2022 rådde det upprorsstämning i Trelleborg då en del av politikerna hade bestämt att de var underbetalda och skulle höja sin lön markant. Detta var generellt inte uppskattat och man kan läsa en del …
The same day as I posted the back to basics post things stopped working. I just couldn't log into my server. Dovecot didn't respond. Emails didn't seem to get accepted (althought, due to the wonderful nature of that protocol, it doesn't really create a problem as emails are just retried …
I got the bill from my hosting provider. For hosting this site in its previous form, a DNS of a couple of hostnames and some email forwarding the bill was a bit much. So the perfect excuse (or good enough) to go back to having my own server where I …
A couple of years ago I participated in the VimJam2 GameJam and made the game The Boss and that was a fun experience where I tried out making a game in Unity (not really my thing.. just didn't enjoy the process) but I think the humor became good and the …
What a click-baity title..
Amir Rajan, the maker of the excellent DragonRuby game engine put up a couple of Youtube videos comparing the engines performance to Unity and PyGame. Since I wondered how Godot 4 would stack up, I implemented the same benchmark there.
How did it stack up? They …
Time for a small update of Todour.
I followed a very helpful tutorial to learn more about Rails and that resulted in a small game being published.
Check out Chessur for more information
While I usually don't have a problem taking credit for my creations, this one is a little different. I didn't make this game. I followed this excellent tutorial by @Deanin on how to make a real time chess game in Rails.
The game …
It's christmas time and I am not working that much so that means there has been some time for pointless programming :)
I made a game called Wordur to sharpen my C# skills and use the very nice Blazor framework that Microsoft have been kind enough to provide now for a …
Wordur is a simple game that I created during christmas 2022 to practice my C# skills a little and also experiment with a simple, casual, browser based asynchronous game.
The game is simple. Each turn you are given a random letter to place on one of the allowed slots. Form …
Due to the rising energy prices I have changed my Electricity supplier here in southern Sweden (Tibber) to one that bills me based on what the electricity costs when I actually use it (hourly), and that also has an API. So.. with an API comes the responsibility of making use …
The game Sumur that I wrote some time ago was an interesting experiment in writing a multiplayer game in Godot using websockets and I thought I'd share how it is built and why.
The game has three parts. A client for handling the player interaction, a server for the rules …
This has been a long time coming. Sumur has up to now not really been playable on mobile using the HTML5/WASM version due to difficulties loggin in. I saw the potential solution for this issue in https://godotengine.org/article/godot-web-progress-report-7 a while back where the Godot team had …
Newton is a game that is under development. See the linked itch.io page for more information about the game itself.
I am making it to learn more of the Godot engine in preparation to make other games (there are many ideas, but walk before running, right?)
I wanted to take Unity for a spin and joined a Game Jam VimJam2 and I made the game The Boss (the theme was Boss). The game became a bit difficult, but I hope I made a few people laugh (and I am very happy with the music).
There is …
I wanted to join a Game Jam using the Dragon Ruby engine, so I joined the Dragon Ruby Classic Jam: Gauntlet Edition with this rather simple game. The goal is to collect the diamonds and kill the zombies. The catch? The game stutters with 2 moves per second (120 bpm …
Foodur is my meal and shopping planning application. It can have recipes, but the general idea is that it has a list of the meals I like to make and what ingredients are needed for these.
It's currently in swedish only and rather rough around the edges, but it does …
Thungur is an application that I built for tracking my weight, eating, general mood and my blood sugar. Of course all of this can be done in excel, but that is no fun is it?
The program can be used to track some data, and it sends emails to remind …
Podcastur is a simple tool for removing music from radio recordings. It does this by assuming that the speech signal is handled very differently from the music signal in the recording and therefore have different frequency characteristics. This is not true for all radio recordings, but for the ones this …
The title is quite specific, but I would have loved to have this article around when I moved my game Sumur from its old hosting at IBM Code Engine and to my own Dokku server. Also, I remember having had some issues packaging the game in a docker to begin …
Sumur is a rather simple game idea where a combination of simple maths (sums) and match 3 is used to create the game play. The goal is to add an arbitrary number of tiles together to become the sum of one or more of the adjacent tiles. These tiles then …
Now the day came. Heroku has decided to stop with its free plans for running small web applications and their free redis and postgres plans as well. I don't blame them for it, but I am of course a little sad that such a convenient deployment option is going away …
It's been over a year. There hasn't been much development but there is always some tinkering being done and it was time to release what's been updated.
I got an interesting problem to solve the other day. A few friends have a local radio show and we want to put the recordings of it online. Of course, there are very different rules on how music can be played on radio as opposed to how is can be …
This time I participated in a small game jam, https://itch.io/jam/dragonruby-classics-jam-gauntlet-edition. I had never made anything with Dragon Ruby before (or any other kind of Ruby, with or without dragons) but I found this to be an interesting little challenge and took it on.
You can read …
I made a small game a while back. I made it in C++, since well, that is how things get done, and all was fine. Until I wanted to change stuff in it and it all just became complicated (my code was a bit of a mess). So I tried …
Download todour 2.20 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/
Moved the "Show All" checkbox to a menu Added a "Stay on top" menu item Fixed github issue 25 - Deleting of creation date Added version information in Mac Build / Bundle Added ability to change what character is used for "NOT" in …
* Undo/Redo support * Bug: Search string could not include multiple spaces * Qt 5.15.0 * Added possibility to remove duplicate lines (the mobile client I use for todo.txt has started adding doublets) * Bug: Title not updated when automatic refresh
Download todour 2.19 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/
Todour 2.18 is a very small update again, but it's available now.
* Possibility to change the application font size * Updated Qt to 5.13 * Fixed interpreting UTF-8 in done.txt that was missed (thanks @fuchsmich) * Fixed a segfault when exiting the program (thanks @richarddribeiro)
Download todour 2.18 from …
This is a very small update that mostly fixes a couple of Linux issues.
* Added support for "p" in rec: - This means that a reccurance can be random (note that this is non-standard) * Removed the +procrastinated label from automatically being added when using "p" * Fixed logout issues in KDE where …
The new rec: feature has been a great addition to how I use my todo-lists and I am using it quite a lot. Probably a bit more than I should be, but it's nice with reminders "sneaking in" to the todo-list like they do using this feature, as I am …
Time for some updates of Todour. This time the star is the rec: tag that has been added.
The rec: tag works by adding time as specified to any t: and due: tag you may have on an item.
My item rec:1d due:2019-01-10
Will create a new item …
There is a new, bug fix version up of Todour.
The shortcuts should now work (keys), refreshing of files is more reliable and the rendering on mac is better. Enjoy.
Download todour 2.151 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/
This is the first Linux build since 2.02 that gets distributed. There is a debian package and a .tar.gz on the download page. I have been using a Linux build all the time since 2.02 and it is working very well, I have just never bothered learning …
Download todour 2.14 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/
Note that if you are updating, this version will automatically check for updates ca once per week. If you’d rather not have that happen, there is a setting to turn that off.
Thought I'd perhaps explain thresholds a little bit.
Using the threshold determines when to show a task or keep it hidden (or optionally to sort it as an inactive task so you can see it but it's sorted last and looks different).
So a line that is
2018-07-03 This is …
Download todour 2.13 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/
Download todour 2.12 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/
Thanks for the bug reports and suggestions.
There is a small bug in 2.10 for portable mode that creates and empty registry entry (and the hotkey setting won't work in portable mode). A fix is in 2.11 that is only available for portable mode in https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/.
A new release, 2.10, is now available on https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/.
This release is focused on fixing issues with the portable mode, so if you have 2.09 and are not using portable mode, this release has nothing new.
For the ones of you using portable mode, the …
Download todour 2.09 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/ for some minor updates.
Download todour 2.08 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/ for some minor updates.
So, I finally got around to it. You can find the source code of Todour on GitHub https://github.com/SverrirValgeirsson/Todour
There is plenty of room for improvements as most of the code has grown organically from a minor experiment that I was doing some years ago and I …
Download todour 2.07 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/ for some minor updates.
Finally advanced search is here! Download todour 2.06 from https://nerdur.com/todour-pl/ and enjoy being able to search for multiple tags in any order and to exclude any words in your search.
For example the search shown here will find all lines that contain "+work" and "+budget" and …
Advanced searching has been implemented and is being tested for the 2.06 release of Todour.
The search will be able to handle multiple search words including negative ones, like below where all lines with "test2" and "test1" but not test4 will be matched.
The negative matching is especially convenient …
Hi. The 2.05 version of Todour is now out. Get it and enjoy the new context feature and a bit fewer bugs :)
The 2.05 version of Todour will have a context lock feature. That means that when the context is "locked", it's automatically added to any new line. So for instance if your're working on a +project1, you can search for it, press the lock and then just add all the …
There is an error in 2,04 that will cause the list to not sort properly in some cases. There are two possible workarounds if this happens to you.
Either
Activate alphabetic sorting
Just toggling the sorting to on is enough, then the program will go into a correct sorting …
The 2.04 version of Todour is available now.
Minor changes
Go …
Looking at my amazing music career, I can only say that it didn’t really work out. Not that I am rock star material, but I actually think some of my music is pretty good. However, the rest of the world don't agree and Spotify happily rates my popularity as …
The first feature of the 2.04 branch has been checked in, and that became a button to toggle alphabetic sorting of the list (yay!)
Head over to the Todour-page for downloading the new 2.03 release.
Changes:
I've noted that there is a small but loyal base of users that use Todour, but quite many download, try once and then never come back. Is it to difficult to use? Or is it just not what those users were expecting? Anyhow, now there is a video showing it …
There are few things as sexy to write about as file formats. It’s in fact so sexy that Apple has mostly hidden the existence of files altogether from their iOS products to protect the public. But perhaps file formats shouldn’t always be something private. Perhaps there may be …
A couple of minor bug fixes where released in the 2.02 update. Available for Windows, Linux and Mac
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After a few hours of figuring out linux-builds and packaging there is now an experimental linux build of Todour on the main page. The packaging is tar.gz and all files that should be needed are there. It's been built and tested on a Linux Mint system and it's only …
Todour 2.01 is up on the server for both windows and mac. Please download and give it a try.
New in this version is the support for dates (can be turned on in settings), a bunch of bugs have been removed and the mac version is now up to …
For quite a few years I've had Todour available for anyone to download. It's software I make for my own use and I'm happy to share it but I can't help wondering how many people are actually using it, and on what platforms. How many people care if I make …
I wonder how this one passed me by, but today I found this thorough tutorial on the todo.txt format by Zach LeBar. He explains in detail how to use the format and he mentions Todour in his article. I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to know more about …
Todour v2.00 has been published for windows now.
Changes include
A mac version will be launched later when the 2 …
I was toying with meteor and phaser, and as I am quite new to the world of JavaScript I wanted to know how I could connect the two.
Much to my surprise, I have come to realise that YouTube is used by many for music listening. That's too bad, as I don't know much about making videos.
Fallur is a very simple casual mobile game where the target is to hit everything that falls down before it reaches the bottom of the screen. Well, almost.. the ghosts are best left untouched.
The game is available on google play for free.
More about the process of creating the …
Now, the game Fallur was released a bit early, just to be out in time for christmas (and the reason for that being that I had invested 30 minutes into making christmas graphics for the game). Now it's time to make the game good enough to be playable for the …
After I made Lovur I experimented with some HTML5 frameworks for game development. I have always liked writing games but I've normally got stuck somewhere in sprite-handling routines and level editors but with these tools it was amazingly simple to prototype games.
Using the MellonJs HTML5 engine I prototyped two …
There is a new game on Google Play: Fallur. The gameplay is simple, you are to catch anything that falls down except the things you shouldn't catch. Simple eh? :)
Please try it out.
There will be more articles on why this game was made and what will happen to it …
Got this simple idea one day on my way to work. How about just shooting a video with the phone and sing along to a song? Said and done, I put my Xperia Z2 on the dashboard and started filming.
Simple enough, and I guess it's better than my normal …
Yesterday I removed Lovur from the Google Play store. I've learned what I wanted to with making it and as the program/game as such really brings no additional value to anyone and needed a little maintenance I removed it. Thanks for trying it out.
Next will probably be another …
Now, this is a …
Assuming things can be a bit risky.
I was finding …
I've been experimenting with online ads using both Google AdWords and AdMob as well as Facebook ads for the last week.
Now, to begin with, the comparison will not be completely fair, as Google was running a campaign that gave me a coupon of 750 SEK (the very nice support …
I'm truly surprised I have to admit. The Lovur app has seen q
uite some spread.
Of course, it's due to that I have been experimenting a little bit with ads with Google AdWords but I never thought it would get this kind of spreading and that users would return …
My music is a hobby. I'm lucky enough to have a good job that I really like and I don't have to depend on my music to put food on the table (it would not be a lot of food...). But, it would be very interesting to know if I …
Now a short time has passed since I posted about tagging on SoundCloud and I thought a small update might be of interest.
The effect has been noticeable. The song in question had been all but forgotten before I added the tags but is now on my top list of …
I use a few browsers on my different desktops and I normally don't really care what I'm using. The standard is pretty high when it comes to browsers and even the bad ones are good. But there is a browser I always get back to, and that is Firefox.
Although …
I selected a song that's not being played a lot, even though I would say it's …
I got a link in my RSS flow from Lifehacker that there was a new GUI for Todo.txt for the mac, namely TodoTxtMac. It does basically the same thing as Todour, just a little bit differently. Check it out!
Next step is to also try to get this on to IPhone …
The Lovur application is coming along quite nicely. I am developing it using a Sony Xperia 
and a MacBook Pro. Currently the application is functional but a bit ugly..
I've managed to work through my learning list a bit:
To learn more about HTML5/JS and understanding how things fit together I've decided to implement a trivial application in Cordova using the Ionic framework.
The application is a port of a simple game we used to play when I was a kid, where the goal is to calculate the …
It’s saturday morning and I’m enjoying my third cup of coffee. It’s one of those days when there aren’t that many plans made, and I feel like learning something new.
As I’ve been playing with HTML5 the last couple of months, just an hour here …
Adding a sharing bar in Sandvox is simple but for some reason, when doing so for my music page it didn’t work getting the Facebook like button to show up. All the other buttons did, but not that one (and I do have a valid App-ID).
After a lot …
My music hobby is moving out from this site. As this page is generally about anything I feel like, I want it to be quite rarely updated with things I like to write about or some programming thingy I’m trying but the music stuff is taking overhand. Therefore https …
A while back I started traveling quite regularly to Tokyo due to changing jobs to a large Japanese corporation. On the first one of these trips, on the way home, I was at Narita International Airport killing time and searching for presents to bring home. Being an engineer I started …
This is a rather special song.Currently this is quite a rough draft, it needs some better mixing, but it’s good enough to show the basic idea. Anyhow, this song was written one weekend when I was surfing Soundcloud and found this very nice piece of music:
[soundcloud url …
A little tune about waiting for something. I’m not 100% happy with the lyrics, will be small changes before this one goes to Spotify, but the song is mostly done.
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124724781" params="color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%" height="166 …
This is a song that I wrote on one of my kids Birthdays..
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/123087959" params="color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]
Got annoyed listening to some young people nagging about not getting everything they wanted served to them so I wrote this.. Guess it’s a clear sign that I’m getting old.. nagging about youth like that.
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120785441" width="100%" height="166" iframe …
Long time since I uploaded something to Soundcloud. Mostly I've been busy with finishing the songs I put out recently on Spotify and some other small projects, but now it's time to put out some material again.
This song is a negative one about having difficult choices. Enjoy.
[soundcloud url …
I bet you all know it. This feeling of having something done. Finished a task. Tied up the loose ends. It's so gratifying that its almost addictive and I am enjoying it now. In fact, so much that I actually think I have time to write this post. In reality …
I just love this video. So well made and Emiliana Torrinis ”Jungle Drums” fits perfectly. Makes me want to visit Iceland...
Just a nice picture I shot out the window at my hotel in San Diego this morning.
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It's been a couple of days since I landed here in San Diego. It's 8 hours time difference to Sweden, something that normally isn't that big of a problem, but it's now 3:30 in the morning and I can't sleep.
The reason for not being able to sleep is …
Making music is my newest nerdy endevour. I discovered at the end of 2012 that the step from just sitting and playing with my guitar, something I’ve been doing since I was a little kid, to actually making a song was a small one. So I started using my …
Filmtagger
Tag scanned photographs with ease
Filmtagger is an application for those of us that still like to shoot film but use the computer to manage our photo collection.
Filmtagger makes it easy to embed EXIF, XMP or IPTC information in the scanned images about camera used, film, ISO, lens …
My first ”real” record. To mark some of my songs as finished and moving on, I took six of my songs and put them out on a record on both iTunes and Spotify.
Special thanks to Johan Gulliksson for listening and giving feedback throughout the process
Result of playing with the android app RD4 Groovebox and my electric guitar. A song about trying to read between the lines. Quite alot of synth-sounds used here, with the analog sounding sounds of RD4 Groovebox used as the base. Also the drums come from that application. All generated on …
This is a song I wrote as a chill-out, slow, kinda cool sounding love song. As usual, it didn't turn out as planned, but it's for the better.
With lots of help from Johan Gulliksson (@gullikid) the arrangement became a bit different, with much better tempo, than my original plan …
I downloaded this great app from Google Play, RD4 - Groovebox during lunch one day at work and played with it. It didn't take long until I had something I liked and on the way home in the car I came up with some simple lyrics to the beat and recorded …
This little tune came to be on my guitar the same hour as I wrote Ghost. I wanted something more positive so I came up with this tune. A couple of evenings later, everyone were asleep and I decided to try to make this song on the computer and it …
I liked the Draugur song, so I re-made it. This time in english. Perfect song if you're in too good mood and need to come down abit ;)
Enjoy
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/98980671" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]
A song I wrote about a beatiful summer night in Smygehamn. In the middle of the night there was no wind, and the mist lay low over the fields and not so distant hill. These nights are breathtaking, and the mist, or the elves that were dancing, got me thinking …
I just came back from a vacation in wonderful Iceland, and using my native language again that much of course lead to a song being written using it.. This is not a very positive song, written about not letting out ones own person but rather keep all conflicts and dreams …
I would say this is one of my absolute best songs so far. Written on a guitar as a rock song, it was recorded during evening when the kids where asleep, thus no guitars in the final production. Also I have got quite alot of help from my friend @GulliKid …
I live in a small town in Sweden called Smygehamn. One day it was just very nice being there and I wrote a song about it. It's in Swedish, and is almost a commercial for my little town, but I like living here so it's not an exaggeration.
[soundcloud url …
My second recording and a song that is written the same evening as Angel and Supernatural Temptation. I think the lyrics speak for themselves and not much explanation is needed on what the song is about. Recorded just like Irony. In my bed.. (why I record there is because the …
This is my first recording. A song that originally was about how comercial cristmas is somehow became a song about Irony without any mention of christmas in it. It was written just before christmas 2012 and recorded in my bed using the computer, a guitar and headphones with a built-in …
I'm a huge fan of Lifehacker and having their site in my daily RSS flow I quickly learned of todo.txt that is metioned there from time to time and I of course got hooked. A simple text file with a simple format that can be used for todo-list and …
Did a re-install of my daughters Vista machine the other day and got annoyed at all the bloat that came with it that I had to remove, and thought that there must be a better way than to remove all those applications one at a time throught the control panel …
