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Jun 29, 2025: Random Things Sunday #8 A bit of Star Wars and some programming this week: SC 38 Reimagined is a fan-made remake of the Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader fight in Star Wars Episode IV: β¦
Jun 26, 2025: Micro.blog June photo challenge day 26: Bridge Tulvaniitynsilta in Helsinki, Finland, crossing River Vantaa. #mbjune π· This is a leaning tied-arch bridge for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, opened β¦
Jun 24, 2025: Cycling wattage I consider myself a pretty decent cyclist: during my commutes I’m usually the one who overtakes others, or I can ride a hundred kilometers at a β¦
Jun 8, 2025: Random Things Sunday #7 Random findings from the web this week, be my guest! I watched this 40+ minute video titled Modern Tanks Vs AT-AT’s - Tactical Analysis of the β¦
Jun 5, 2025: The war in Ukraine On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine, upsetting pretty much the entire international community. Early on some people β¦
May 26, 2025: Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Early in May I wrote that Finland would have two entries in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, as the entry from Sweden was also performed by a β¦
May 25, 2025: Random Things Sunday #6 Another Sunday, another batch of random internet finds. Let’s get into it: The ant simulator video that I embedded in a previous post got β¦
May 18, 2025: Random Things Sunday #5: Feats of engineering When it comes to feats of engineering, everybody knows about the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China. Some even know you can see the Moon from the β¦
May 15, 2025: Tortilla burgers recipe In September 2023 I had a delicious tortilla burger in a restaurant called Burger Berg in DΔΔΓn, Czechia, after a via ferrata experience on the β¦
May 9, 2025: Star Wars trivia I’ve got a couple of little Star Wars fans at home, playing lightsaber fights and making LEGO Star Wars stop motion films. As such, I’ve β¦
May 5, 2025: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in 100 words In my previous post I suggested that fewer words is always better. This is, of course, only true to a certain point. You should absolutely use as many β¦
May 4, 2025: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 100 words Happy May the Fourth! Here’s a 100 word summary of the first Star Wars movie of the prequel trilogy, The Phantom Menace (1999). This is the β¦
May 3, 2025: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 100 words I recently watched Rogue One for the first time again after seeing it in a theater in 2016. Needless to say the details were a bit fuzzy in my mind β¦
Apr 29, 2025: KevΓ€tpΓΆrriΓ€inen In Finland we have this thing called KevΓ€tpΓΆrriΓ€inen (“Spring Bee”). It’s an annual maganize that publishes stories, drawings, β¦
Apr 27, 2025: Random Things Sunday #4 Just a couple of things this time. Not going to force it if I don’t have something worth sharing. π€· A live-updating version of the ‘What β¦
Apr 27, 2025:
Trip to LEGOLAND
Last week, April 16-20, my family and I did an Easter holiday trip to LEGOLAND in Billund, Denmark. The kids had never been on a plane and Denmark is β¦
Apr 22, 2025: The Best of Finnish TV in 2025 I don’t watch a lot of Finnish dramas, but 2025 will be written in history for me, as I’ve already seen three great shows this year, which β¦
Apr 15, 2025: Zero peach thought π For a “zero peach” drink this one is surprisingly peachy. π€ππΈ
Apr 14, 2025: Tiny Experiments I’ve been listening to the Hanselminutes podcast for some eight or nine years already, and it is in fact the reason I created myself a β¦
Apr 13, 2025: Random Things Sunday #3: Color This time there’s a common theme with the links: color. π¨ I’ve recently been subtly tweaking the colors of my blog, so I’ve β¦
Apr 9, 2025: Quote of the day So much of cybersecurity is “We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans,” and not β¦
Apr 8, 2025: Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic Finished reading: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett π The Light Fantastic picks up exactly where The Colour of Magic left off: the wizard β¦
Apr 6, 2025: Random Things Sunday #2 Three random things! Something to listen. My brilliant colleague Annika Madejska, who is something of a thought-leader in the ethics of AI, was β¦
Apr 3, 2025: Saalo's Law of Software Development When you’ve been long enough in the software development business you start to notice patterns. One of those patterns recently surfaced again β¦
Mar 30, 2025: Are you really using AI? Yesterday I was scrolling through my feed when I came across a short video by Allie K. Miller, who’s something of a thought leader in the AI β¦
Mar 29, 2025:
Vibe coding an ant colony simulator
When it comes to household chores, ironing is one of my favorites as it often allows me to shorten my “Watch later” playlist (771 videos β¦
Mar 26, 2025: Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic Finished reading: The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett π According to a legend, somewhere on the far side of the Disc, beyond the great sea, lies β¦
Mar 23, 2025: List(s) of Random Things About a week ago I was exploring other random blogs when I came across the 7 Things This Week [#172] post by Jarrod Blundy. What caught my eye was the β¦
Mar 22, 2025: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 100 words I figured it would be an interesting little challenge to condense the plot of the original Star Wars into a very short format, but with as many β¦
Mar 20, 2025: Vivaldi browser Around the turn of the millennium the browser wars were a thing. The first browser war saw Netscape Navigator unsuccessfully defend against the new β¦
Mar 18, 2025: Kagi Search About three months ago I ditched Google as my primary search engine and started using Kagi instead – and haven’t looked back. Kagi is a β¦
Mar 16, 2025: Caffeine There is a common misconception that energy drinks have a particularly high caffeine concentration. Often the people who fuss over this are coffee β¦
Mar 16, 2025: Gemini protocol The other day I was browsing some random Micro.blog blogs when I came across an interesting post about Gemini in the Hey Loura! blog. Gemini in this β¦
Mar 9, 2025: ESC25 Last night it was confirmed that the band KAJ would represent Sweden in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This is funny, because KAJ is, in β¦
Mar 8, 2025: Energy drinks I’m in the habit of taking a photo of each new energy drink I try. At this point of I can make a nice 4x4 collage out of the ones I’ve β¦
Mar 6, 2025: Helsinki central railway station at dusk Helsinki central railway station at dusk: π·π€©π
Mar 3, 2025: 97th Academy Awards I’ve watched the Oscars live broadcast close to twenty times now, and I’d argue that’s no mean feat, as they are aired here in β¦
Mar 2, 2025: Wordle Today I reached a streak of 100 in Wordle. π Wordle 1,352 4/6 β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ β¬β¬π¨β¬π© π©π©π©π©π© WordleBot Skill 90/99 Luck 46/99
Mar 1, 2025: Currently reading: The Praised, The Loved, The Deplored, The Forgotten: A View into the Wide History of Finnish Games by Kultima, Annakaisa; β¦
Feb 27, 2025: Clash Royale Supercell is a successful Finnish mobile game company known for Clash Royale, a strategic real-time card game where players use various units to β¦
Feb 26, 2025: GitHub My GitHub account is located at github.com/ZeroOne30… Micro.blog claims these posts can be synced there automatically. Let’s see if this β¦
Feb 26, 2025: Watch woes The number 6 has come loose in my watch. I got a quote for 60-80 β¬ for fixing it. π€― That exceeded my expectations 3-10x. I’m still considering β¦
Feb 26, 2025: Currently reading: The End of Everything by Katie Mack π Really interesting stuff! π
Feb 25, 2025: π» Cheated by Intel I feel rather cheated by Intel… I got a new desktop PC in 2020 with an i7-10700K CPU that uses the then-brand-new LGA1200 socket, thinking that β¦
Feb 24, 2025: Hello! Hello people! π I just learned about the Micro.blog platform from the Hanselminutes podcast and decided to join. π