Kevin Haffner

 This post will be in norwegian, as it (as far as I know) only applies to the norwegian market. English tldr at the bottom.  Jeg har nylig blitt deleier av en Maxus e-Deliver 3 , og har oppdaget noe som jeg syns må få større oppmerksomhet.  Alle anmeldelsene jeg så rundt denne bilen i forkant, viste at denne har Android Auto og Apple CarPlay. Men når vi kjøpte vår, oppdaget vi at USB-porten tiltenkt dette manglet. Ifølge forhandler ble vi fortalt at bilen er tilpasset det norske markedet og har dermed DAB-radio i stedet for Android Auto og Apple CarPlay...  Det var ingen dealbreaker for oss under kjøpet, men veldig surt å lære først når vi sto der og så bilen med egne øyne i Norge. Så om du vurderer Maxus e-Deliver 3 og den er importert av forhandler, vær klar over dette.  Hvordan DAB er implementert er noe teknisk interessant. USB-porten tiltenkt Android Auto/Apple CarPlay finnes tilsynelatende likevel, om så virtuelt. Jeg har ikke (enda) undersøkt baksiden av ...

My brother and I just bought a new car!  A little background: We've had an 2005-ish Volvo V40 for about 2 years. Cheap, simple car, did what we needed. But it did not pass the recent vehicle inspection, and the repair would cost at least 25 000 NOK. And scheduled next year is some other expensive maintenance. So we started looking for alternatives. We had a few demands for our next car: Electric Cheap Good range for the price Easy to rent out A format/type we need For it to be electric is mostly a principle. We also despise all the greasy maintenance, all the weird fluids and moving parts, having to visit the gas stations etc. It had to be relatively cheap. But the cheapest electric cars have terrible range. So we had to go a bit up in price. Owning a car is in itself a money pit in my mind. So for it to make a bit more financial sense, we're going to rent it out as much as possible. So what's the car? A 2020 Maxus e-Deliver 3! (Photo: Maxus.no) The short body, with the big...

So today a colleague told me about  regexcrossword.com I'm done with the beginner levels, I think I'm hooked.  Do you like regex and puzzles? Of course you do, try it out!👍

This is Rusty. He's a floofy lovable weirdo that enjoys sitting outside and passing out in my lap

I want to share a project I worked on a while ago, that I still use from time to time.  Basically all my grocery shopping is done at Kolonial.no, which is a Norwegian online grocery store that has an api for the shopping cart and products.  I am a cheapskate in many fields, including grocery shopping. And how I shop is somewhat robotic, very predictable and some might say boring and uninspired. But the thought process when I select items, can easily be automated, so I did. The code is on my github .  All the docs are there, so I won't bore you with that here.  But the idea and process is quite simple: I need eggs. Eggs are not a product. Eggs are a category of products . So my shopping list in this code is the category ID of eggs at kolonial.no.  On the same line in my shopping list I can also specify words that should or should not appear in the product name. For example "frittgående" should be in the name. (Norwegian for "free range") Next filter is whether or...

I'd like to use this blog as an outlet for my hobbies, activities and thoughts.  Topics I have in mind are Home automation (based on Home Assistant) Cooking Various powershell scripting DIY projects at home Home labbing Cat pictures. The internet seems to like those, and I have access to a cat some times.  Also, this is my first blog. I have no idea what I'm doing.