Author Archives: Johan

Multi line regular expressions in Textmate

- Posted in development

I am mostly writing this for my own reference. Because of the Sketch mask trick, when trying to export icons they had a mask in them that I did not want. Basically I had to remove all masks across 75 icons. Since SVGs are just text files, you can do some regex processing  to find all […]

A visit to Kitchen Town (Kappabashi)

- Posted in cooking

On a recent trip to Japan, I combined my newfound obsession with cooking with a not-so-common touristic destination. Kappabashi or “Kitchen town” is a street lined with cooking-related stores. It is said that if you can’t find it in Kappabashi, you can’t find it anywhere. You can basically start a restaurant with what you can […]

On cooking

- Posted in cooking

The past year or so I’ve been on a bit of a quest to improve my cooking. There’s a wealth of info on the internet on how to make almost anything. In my Best of 2017 – YouTube I mentioned 2 cooking channels – not a coincidence! Lately I’ve been into making curries. First I made this Japanese beef […]

January Films (4)

- Posted in film

As my last film of January I saw The Shape of Water. This is a fantastic movie that is just pure cinema. Some call it a fairytale, some talk about it being a metaphor for the “increasing modern-day non-acceptance of people outside the norm”. Honestly, what I see is Guillermo Del Toro doing what he […]

January films (3)

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I was in a screening of The Post. The average age in the room must’ve been higher than 50… probably the people who were alive when all of this happened. This film has gotten some good reviews but it didn’t really do it for me. I didn’t connect with the film at all. There was good imagery and a great […]

January Films (2)

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Maybe it’s because I am now a recent convert to the Church, or maybe it’s because I am looking for excuses to get my steps per day up, but I’ve been going to the cinema so often, it’s a bit crazy. Just today, I cancelled my Netflix account in a vow to be more picky in what “content I […]

January Films

- Posted in film

A few days I subscribed to the Kermode podcast. I listened to one very long episode and I already love it. They were talking about Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (★★★), and even interviewed the director Martin McDonagh. Last night I saw this film and I must say it was very, very good. It even surpassed Molly’s […]

Better

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A new year, and a bit of difficulties in business led me to a lot of thinking. This post doesn’t have a lot of structure, but I hope the combined thoughts make some sense and give you something to think about as well. In my day job, I am a UI designer, and most of […]

Best of 2017 – a side project

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I made a side project, showing off my favorite things released in 2017. If you don’t care about the details and/or technicalities and just want to see the result, check out the project here. Intro I love end of year lists. It’s always nice to have a backlog of great movies to watch or albums […]

Subform app

- Posted in apps

While preparing a potential talk for the UI design tooling meetup* I took a look at Subform. It recently entered beta, with a monthly $25 fee to test the app. At first this move felt weird to me, but I know how hard independent software development is, so I understand this decision. Subform was announced […]