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→ Friday April 7, 2023📓 Just realized that coming back to Finland 🇫🇮 during Easter means it’s also mämmi season. I think it’s a polarizing opinion at least among foreigners in Finland but I ❤️ mämmi 🤤
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→ Sunday April 2, 2023📓 Working on my weekly review template in Obsidian. Decided to have an optional photo from the week, I hope it becomes mandatory. Here 2023-W13’s photo - Bernie escaping a wave 🌊🐶 in Lerici 🇮🇹. Gelato🍦was also had that day.
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Technology
→ Tuesday March 28, 2023💾 Raindrop vs. Readwise? The use case I have is syncing highlights with Obsidian. I would have considered the Readwise + Reader subscription (as it comes with an official Obsidian plugin) if it could replace Feedbin. But, Reader makes my head explode vs the simplicitiy and control in Feedbin 🤯
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→ Sunday March 26, 2023📓📷 A love story in Florence 😋 Throwback to our visit last week. Thankfully, I’m not the main photographer on this trip.
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→ Sunday March 26, 2023📓📷 Spent the weekend in Naples. I think I gained a couple of kilos. It’s too hectic and loud city for my taste, but it’s quite a unique sight. The level of adoration for Napoli and Maradona is something I’ve never seen elsewhere. Napoli is on the way to winning Serie A after a 30+ break 🤞
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Technology
→ Thursday March 23, 2023💾 Pair a restrictive enterprise environment with Microsoft’s suite on the Apple ecosystem and you get endless misery and despair for your average productivity geek. Like, you think you can sync Obsidian via OneDrive (no Obsidian Sync cause enterprise + M$) on mobile…
Computer says NO!
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→ Sunday March 19, 2023📓📷 Visited San Gimignano today. Grey and slow Sunday. Now back at the house, headphones on 🎧 and an equally slow evening.
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→ Sunday March 12, 2023📓🚄 Riding on a train at 300 km/h. Paint me impressed 🏎️
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→ Sunday March 12, 2023📓📷 On the way to Tuscany 🇮🇹 for a month of remote working. Day 4 of our trip from Helsinki. We see the light at the end of the tunnel - Sunday breakfast in Milan. Doggos have been brilliant 🐶🙇 Just one more train leg before we get a rental car and some 10 hours from our final destination.
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→ Thursday March 9, 2023📓 You know the feeling when you complete something worthwhile at work and feel like you need some extra prize for basically doing your job? That prize is called salary 😂
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→ Monday February 27, 2023
I uploaded a very short 21-second demo video to YouTube, showing the Mac app’s updated character counter for posts with block quotes. Same behavior across all platforms as described in this announcement post.
Funnily enough this video got me more excited about the Embed feature than anything else. Anyway, thanks @manton!
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→ Sunday February 26, 2023📓 For nearly a year now I haven’t really felt the Sunday blues. I am sorry for bragging. It’s still a new thing for me to feel this way and I’m just grateful.
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→ Sunday February 26, 2023📓 Best dough and rise so far since I started baking! It’s rewarding to see progress week after week. 🍞 This time I had shorter autolyze and a bit more rigorous stretch-and-folding.
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Technology
→ Friday February 17, 2023💾 Progressing with acquiring parts for an SFF PC build. One risk factor was that some older BIOS versions of the mobo I chose don’t support the CPU out of the box and there is no BIOS flashback. Happy to see the BIOS version is new enough on the one I got 🙇
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Gaming
→ Wednesday February 8, 2023Darn where did the last couple of hours vanish just now! Available on Apple Arcade, and to my surprise I could play it with the touchpad of my iPad’s Brydge.
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→ Wednesday February 8, 2023📓📷 Last weekend’s effort 🍞. Progress! Completely changed the flour blend and got a feeling of what stretchy dough should be. For some reason, after promising stretch-and-fold reps, the dough still couldn’t hold any shape after the bulk fermentation phase 🤷🏻♂️
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→ Wednesday February 1, 2023algorithm
noun
a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
“a basic algorithm for division”
Just pondering if doing anything useful is inherent to an algorithm. I maintain not. 💾
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→ Tuesday January 31, 2023📓📷 I developed a sourdough starter over last week. This culminated in a total failure to produce the intended loaf on Sunday 🍞. However, it still tasted good and I’m willing to try again! I was so close to just throw the weak dough in the trash. Thankfully, I didn’t. 😋
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Gaming
→ Sunday January 22, 2023🎮 Red Dead Redemption II (2018)
Finally picked this one up on sale. Seems I prefer only occasional gun fights to everything else. Especially enjoy riding and bonding with my horse 🐴
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→ Thursday January 19, 2023
📺 The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself (2022)
I’ve been watching this and enjoying it so far. Can’t help but think that if it had been a US production (instead of a UK one), its 8 episodes would have been watered down into at least 2 seasons.
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Technology
→ Tuesday January 17, 2023💾 As part of my migration to Proton Mail, I’m already forwarding my Gmail inbox to it and unsubscribing from a lot of junk. It’s a cleansing experience.
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→ Sunday January 15, 2023📓📺 The Rig (2023) - ★★★★☆
Not sure why this has received relatively low ratings on IMDB. Totally binge-worthy!
P.S. Shoutout to @rknightuk for making Lantern!
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Gaming
🎮 The Callisto Protocol - better than the reviews, but still…
→ Sunday January 15, 2023I had been eagerly waiting for the release of The Callisto Protocol in the end of 2022. From the minds of Dead Space creators, Callisto is a spiritual successor to this survival horror classic. I have to be honest - maybe too much so. After the first couple of hours, I felt that there wasn’t enough of a novelty to have justified my pre-order. Nor to back up claims such as bringing survival horror to the 2020s. This remains a fair warning.
That said, Callisto is an extremely well crafted and high quality cinematic experience. As I kept immersing myself in the world of the game, my initial sense of disappointment diminished. Still, I feel the development team overestimated the novelty of the close combat system. It is, however, really satisfying once you embrace its way of creating flow. If this was paired with a more captivating story, it would have taken the game to the next level. Alas, it is what it is.
Gameplay won’t appeal to many, but chances are if you are Dead Space fan - you’d be fulfilled. Progression is linear, encounters scripted with little left to chance. This is perfectly fine, I enjoyed pre-planning and experimenting with difficult encounters, alongside improving my command of controls. Speaking of controls, there are a few rough edges around weapon swapping but it really forces you to remain composed and intentional under pressure.
In the end, I’m very happy with The Callisto Protocol and can absolutely recommend it. Seeing the level of polish of its visuals and fusion of cinematics with combat, it’s frustrating the whole package has some flaws that keep the game in the “Great” and not “Hall of Fame” category.
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Technology
→ Thursday January 12, 2023💾 Contemplating a migration from Gmail to Proton Mail 📧 Searching email content is more of a hassle and I wonder if this will be a deal-breaker. I hope not.
