• Gaming

    ๐ŸŽฎ Finally getting a grip of Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus on the iPad so that Necrons donโ€™t mop the floor with me on the easy missionsโ€ฆ But damn does it crash, 20 min lost just before clearing a tomb ๐Ÿ˜–

    โ†’ Monday May 22, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐ŸŽต Eurovision 2023 final tonight!

    ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿซฒ๐ŸŸข๐ŸŸข๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŸข๐ŸŸข๐Ÿซฑ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ

    โ†’ Saturday May 13, 2023
  • Technology

    ๐Ÿ’พ I had no idea this would stick with me butโ€ฆ You can use โ€œLumosโ€ and โ€œNoxโ€ with Siri to respectively turn on and off the torch. Works well on the apple watch as well! ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ

    โ†’ Sunday April 30, 2023
  • Technology

    ๐Ÿ’พ @help would be great to have an UI element that indicates a thread has comments in the Micro.blog iOS beta app. Would save a bunch of swipes/taps. Gluon has this tiny but very handy feature.

    โ†’ Sunday April 30, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท It was a tough week health- and work-wise. There were some bright rays of light to it, though. Like the visit at the re-opened Ateneum.

    In the photo Esko Tirronenโ€™s Sunrise, 1971

    โ†’ Sunday April 23, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““ Binge-watching the Mandalorian S3. This is the way. ๐Ÿ“บ

    โ†’ Saturday April 22, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท Opening the 2023 cottage season ๐Ÿก

    โ†’ Saturday April 15, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““ Just realized that coming back to Finland ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ during Easter means itโ€™s also mรคmmi season. I think itโ€™s a polarizing opinion at least among foreigners in Finland but I โค๏ธ mรคmmi ๐Ÿคค

    โ†’ Friday April 7, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““ Working on my weekly review template in Obsidian. Decided to have an optional photo from the week, I hope it becomes mandatory. Here 2023-W13โ€™s photo - Bernie escaping a wave ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿถ in Lerici ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น. Gelato๐Ÿฆwas also had that day.

    โ†’ Sunday April 2, 2023
  • Technology

    ๐Ÿ’พ 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 ๐Ÿคฏ

    โ†’ Tuesday March 28, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท A love story in Florence ๐Ÿ˜‹ Throwback to our visit last week. Thankfully, Iโ€™m not the main photographer on this trip.

    โ†’ Sunday March 26, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท Spent the weekend in Naples. I think I gained a couple of kilos. Itโ€™s too hectic and loud city for my taste, but itโ€™s quite a unique sight. The level of adoration for Napoli and Maradona is something Iโ€™ve never seen elsewhere. Napoli is on the way to winning Serie A after a 30+ break ๐Ÿคž

    โ†’ Sunday March 26, 2023
  • Technology

    ๐Ÿ’พ Pair a restrictive enterprise environment with Microsoftโ€™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 mobileโ€ฆ

    Computer says NO!

    โ†’ Thursday March 23, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท Visited San Gimignano today. Grey and slow Sunday. Now back at the house, headphones on ๐ŸŽง and an equally slow evening.

    โ†’ Sunday March 19, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿš„ Riding on a train at 300 km/h. Paint me impressed ๐ŸŽ๏ธ

    โ†’ Sunday March 12, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท On the way to Tuscany ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น 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 ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ™‡ Just one more train leg before we get a rental car and some 10 hours from our final destination.

    โ†’ Sunday March 12, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““ 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 ๐Ÿ˜‚

    โ†’ Thursday March 9, 2023
  • I uploaded a very short 21-second demo video to YouTube, showing the Mac appโ€™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!

    โ†’ Monday February 27, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““ For nearly a year now I havenโ€™t really felt the Sunday blues. I am sorry for bragging. Itโ€™s still a new thing for me to feel this way and Iโ€™m just grateful.

    โ†’ Sunday February 26, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““ Best dough and rise so far since I started baking! Itโ€™s rewarding to see progress week after week. ๐Ÿž This time I had shorter autolyze and a bit more rigorous stretch-and-folding.

    โ†’ Sunday February 26, 2023
  • Technology

    ๐Ÿ’พ Progressing with acquiring parts for an SFF PC build. One risk factor was that some older BIOS versions of the mobo I chose donโ€™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 ๐Ÿ™‡

    โ†’ Friday February 17, 2023
  • Gaming

    ๐ŸŽฎ Battleheart Legacy (2014)

    Darn 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.

    โ†’ Tuesday February 7, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท Last weekendโ€™s effort ๐Ÿž. 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 couldnโ€™t hold any shape after the bulk fermentation phase ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    Sourdough bread being cut on a wooden cutting board
    โ†’ Tuesday February 7, 2023
  • Technology

    algorithm

    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. ๐Ÿ’พ

    โ†’ Wednesday February 1, 2023
  • Casual

    ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“ท I developed a sourdough starter over last week. This culminated in a total failure to produce the intended loaf on Sunday ๐Ÿž. However, it still tasted good and Iโ€™m willing to try again! I was so close to just throw the weak dough in the trash. Thankfully, I didnโ€™t. ๐Ÿ˜‹

    Sliced dark bread sitting on a wooden cutting board
    โ†’ Tuesday January 31, 2023