: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency I recently stumbled upon the IndieWeb Book Club, where Jo was setting the book of the month for …
: Tinylytics I’ve been tracking the number of visitors in my blog with Tinylytics. I originally went for a …
: Strava companion tools Strava is the de facto standard of recreational cyclists for tracking their rides, and I use it too. …
: Random Things Sunday #14 A few random things I’ve found interesting recently: Michael Taggart hates generative AI, yet …
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Random Things Sunday #13
Technically it isn’t Sunday yet where I am, but it’s already Sunday somewhere on Earth, …
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Kari Hautamäki: Tänne minäkin kuolen (2026)
Tänne minäkin kuolen (“I’ll Die Here Too”) is the sequel to paramedic Hautamäki’s …
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Bluesky bot to report speeding buses
The people in my neighborhood Facebook group are often worried about cars speeding on the main road …
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How to build an airport in TheoTown
A while back all the windows in our apartment were replaced, which necessitated that we clear the …
: Richard Osman: The Impossible Fortune The latest installment of the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune, …
: Titanic tidbits My 5yo kid is having a Titanic phase: he wants to know everything about Titanic, draws or builds at …
: Marianne Bellotti: Kill It with Fire. Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) (2021) I admit I rarely read professional literature, but I found this one after watching Greg …
: Tom Wainwright - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel (2016) If Narconomics were a school textbook, the course description might be something like this: The …
: Book review: Raeste & Sokala: The World's 50 Most Dangerous Companies Juha-Pekka Raeste & Hannu Sokala: Maailman 50 vaarallisinta yhtiötä (“The World’s 50 …
: Lessons from years of software engineering Early in my career when someone asked me in a job interview what it is that I like about the …
: Random Things Sunday #12 Some interesting media to watch and to listen to this time. One short, one medium, and two long …
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Using AI at work
Someone young not in the software business recently asked me if I use AI in my work. My knee-jerk …
: us-east-1, Eight Sleep, and the Internet of Things A couple of weeks ago on October 20, 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a catastrophic failure as …
: Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary (2021) A man wakes up from a coma in a strange cylindrical room, with only a computer and robotic arms …
: Random Things Sunday 11: Neal.fun, aka. Destroying your productivity This time all the links are from the same site! This guy Neal has created plenty of addictive …
: Random Things Sunday #10 Some random findings from the internets, this time catering to programmer-minded people: My former …
: Watch woes revisited and resolved In February I reported that the number six in my watch had come loose. Miraculously, that problem …
: Kagi revisited Back in March I wrote about how I have ditched Google for good and become a Kagi user. I’m …
: Richard Osman: We Solve Murders (2024) Finished reading: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 📚 Amy Wheeler is a specialist in tough …
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A light exercise in vibe coding
A few months ago I tried vibe coding an ant colony simulator, but in the end it didn’t work …
: Käärijä & KAJ Käärijä almost won the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2023 with his song Cha Cha Cha. If you …
: Random Things Sunday #9 Without further ado, here are some random things I’ve recently come across: a new game mode in …
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Elevator Saga game
What should happen if you’re on the tenth floor of a building and push the button to call an …
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Robot Battle, an old Windows game
In the 1990s and early 2000s I played this great game called Robot Battle by Brad Schick. It’s …
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How NetHack got me into the Battlefield series
NetHack is a notoriously difficult game that some people play for decades and never win, even if …
: Random Things Sunday #8 A bit of Star Wars and some programming this week: SC 38 Reimagined is a fan-made remake of the …
: Micro.blog June photo challenge day 26: Bridge Tulvaniitynsilta in Helsinki, Finland, crossing River Vantaa. #mbjune 📷 This is a leaning tied-arch …
: Cycling wattage I consider myself a pretty decent cyclist: during my commutes I’m usually the one who …
: Random Things Sunday #7 Random findings from the web this week, be my guest! I watched this 40+ minute video titled Modern …
: The war in Ukraine On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine, upsetting pretty much the …
: Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Early in May I wrote that Finland would have two entries in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, …
: Random Things Sunday #6 Another Sunday, another batch of random internet finds. Let’s get into it: The ant simulator …
: Random Things Sunday #5: Feats of engineering When it comes to feats of engineering, everybody knows about the Pyramids and the Great Wall of …
: Tortilla burgers recipe In September 2023 I had a delicious tortilla burger in a restaurant called Burger Berg in Děčín, …
: Star Wars trivia I’ve got a couple of little Star Wars fans at home, playing lightsaber fights and making LEGO …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Kevätpörriäinen In Finland we have this thing called Kevätpörriäinen (“Spring Bee”). It’s an …
: Random Things Sunday #4 Just a couple of things this time. Not going to force it if I don’t have something worth …
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Trip to LEGOLAND
Last week, April 16-20, my family and I did an Easter holiday trip to LEGOLAND in Billund, Denmark. …
: 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 …
: Zero peach thought 💭 For a “zero peach” drink this one is surprisingly peachy. 🤔🍑📸
: Tiny Experiments I’ve been listening to the Hanselminutes podcast for some eight or nine years already, and it …
: Random Things Sunday #3: Color This time there’s a common theme with the links: color. 🎨 I’ve recently been subtly …
: Quote of the day So much of cybersecurity is “We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized …
: Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic Finished reading: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 📚 The Light Fantastic picks up exactly …
: Random Things Sunday #2 Three random things! Something to listen. My brilliant colleague Annika Madejska, who is something …
: Saalo's Law of Software Development When you’ve been long enough in the software development business you start to notice …
: Are you really using AI? Yesterday I was scrolling through my feed when I came across a short video by Allie K. Miller, …
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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 …
: Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic Finished reading: The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett 📚 According to a legend, somewhere on the …
: 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] …
: 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 …
: Vivaldi browser Around the turn of the millennium the browser wars were a thing. The first browser war saw Netscape …
: Kagi Search About three months ago I ditched Google as my primary search engine and started using Kagi instead …
: Caffeine There is a common misconception that energy drinks have a particularly high caffeine concentration. …
: Gemini protocol The other day I was browsing some random Micro.blog blogs when I came across an interesting post …
: ESC25 Last night it was confirmed that the band KAJ would represent Sweden in this year’s Eurovision …
: 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 …
: Helsinki central railway station at dusk Helsinki central railway station at dusk: 📷🤩🌆
: 97th Academy Awards I’ve watched the Oscars live broadcast close to twenty times now, and I’d argue …
: Wordle Today I reached a streak of 100 in Wordle. 😃 Wordle 1,352 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot …
: Currently reading: The Praised, The Loved, The Deplored, The Forgotten: A View into the Wide History …
: Clash Royale Supercell is a successful Finnish mobile game company known for Clash Royale, a strategic real-time …
: GitHub My GitHub account is located at github.com/ZeroOne30… Micro.blog claims these posts can be …
: Watch woes The number 6 has come loose in my watch. I got a quote for 60-80 € for fixing it. 🤯 That exceeded my …
: Currently reading: The End of Everything by Katie Mack 📚 Really interesting stuff! 😃
: 💻 Cheated by Intel I feel rather cheated by Intel… I got a new desktop PC in 2020 with an i7-10700K CPU that …
: Hello! Hello people! 👋 I just learned about the Micro.blog platform from the Hanselminutes podcast and …