Casual

📓📺 Finally managed to finish the 3rd and last season of Dark. I just had to accept I can’t really follow the plot line 🤯 and enjoy the ride. I hold it a masterpiece of modern sci-fi TV. Shoutout to 1899.

→ Saturday January 7, 2023

Casual

📓📷 First public sauna 🧖🏻 for 2023 at Uusi Sauna. There’s been some changes since last time I visited. Love it!

→ Wednesday January 4, 2023

Casual

📓📷 The most beautiful heart-attack-in-a-cup. The office coffee machine considers an Americano to be a 1/2 cup espresso shot. Topped it up with hot water myself. Living on the edge in your mid-30s 😂!

→ Wednesday January 4, 2023

Technology

💾💬 A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

“Everybody needs to make their own privacy decisions,” she told me. “And I can tell you, overwhelmingly, people make the decision to have the features as long as they are delivered at a cost-effective price point.”

While this is the way executives reason about privacy, there is little hope for improvement.

→ Tuesday January 3, 2023

Casual

📓📷 Last sauna for 198… oh wait 📺

→ Saturday December 31, 2022

Casual

📓📷 Leaving Bulgaria 🇧🇬 after a Christmas family visit. Early morning flight, long transfer ahead, but feeling fulfilled.

→ Thursday December 29, 2022

Casual

📓⚽️ Premier League is back! Skipped the Qatar World Cup, super hyped to watch some great games today!

→ Monday December 26, 2022

Casual

📓 There are 2 types of people in this world - those who tell a hairstylist they don’t like the cut, and those who don’t. 💇🏻 I’m the latter.

→ Friday December 23, 2022

Casual

📓🍿 Black Adam is just what I needed to unwind after a long week. Enjoying the silly humour. My favorite character might be Karim. 😀

→ Saturday December 17, 2022

Casual

📓🚇 Metro etiquette in rush hour - you move from aisle to window seat when the latter frees up. ☝️

→ Thursday December 15, 2022

Casual

📓 One day I’ll decide that the stress of the week before vacation is not worth it… And never go on vacation ever again 😂

→ Wednesday December 14, 2022

Casual

📓📷 Visited Porvoo today. It’s a pretty town. The photo is a little misleading - the old town was bustling with people.

→ Saturday December 10, 2022

Technology

💾 Thanks, @Miraz, for this post from 2019. Finally fixed the lack of list markers on home page with the Marfa theme. It was so annoying but beyond my knowledge of CSS to fix.

→ Friday December 9, 2022

Casual

📓📷 My partner made themselves an early Christmas present - a new camera. And it’s paying off already on day 1. Starring Elli 🐶❄️

→ Tuesday December 6, 2022

Technology

💾🔗 I’ve been slowly reconnecting with my inner tech nerd. If you are a recovering techie - move on 🫡 My latest rabbit hole is small form factor PCs. Doing my research and eye shopping. There’s an amazing YouTube channel and a reddit (tip: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/top/.rss?t=week).

→ Tuesday December 6, 2022

Casual

📓 Been sick over the last few days 🤧 It peaked on Sunday and today is the first day I feel my energy is coming back 💪 The feeling of ‘normal’ after enduring any sort of pain is a good reminder to be grateful for the simple things.

→ Tuesday December 6, 2022

Casual

📓📷 Amazing gig yesterday by Finnish shoegaze band Ruissalo Amping! 🎵 Spotify/Apple Music

→ Sunday November 20, 2022

Casual

📓📷 On the way to public sauna 🧖 First day of snow ❄️

→ Saturday November 19, 2022

Casual

📓⚽️ In a first world fit of “my thoughts and prayers”, I’ve decided not to watch the football world championship in Qatar. The lack of actually meaningful action from the teams is also frustrating. A rainbow colored captain’s band is as useful as this post.

→ Wednesday November 16, 2022

Technology

💾 The accessibility settings in iOS / iPadOS have a lot of useful features. Recently added the ’Reduce White Point’ setting to the accessibility shortcuts. It’s a nice addition on top of Night Shift for some bedtime browsing.

→ Tuesday November 15, 2022

Management

💻💬 Scott Galloway: Hubris

Every day, no matter how successful we become, we need to earn our success. We need to be kind and appreciative; we need to surround ourselves with people who will push back on us and question our beliefs and actions. We need to demonstrate humility. You are never more susceptible to a huge mistake than right after a big win, when you begin to believe the falsehood that your success is all about you. Yes, you’re brilliant and hardworking, but greatness is in the agency of others, and timing (and other features of luck) is everything.

→ Sunday November 13, 2022

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Gaming

🎮 Signalis - survival horror excellence (I didn't expect)

Had someone asked me 10 minutes in, I wouldn’t have thought Signalis would have grasped me the way it did. Some of my favorite games of my childhood are of the likes of Resident Evil 3 and Silent Hill. Signalis inescapably reminds me of the retro survival horror classics. The game is true to its inspirations down to the sometimes clumsy mechanics and restrictions, such as no autosaves.

The magnetic draw of the game, however, is far deeper than its aesthetics. The whole narrative design in my opinion is outstanding. Signalis is a true tribute to indie craftsmanship. The core game team of the rose-engine is 2 people and the care put into the game seeps through its every pore.

Writing this as I just finished my run, I feel deeply satisfied with my experience. The puzzles were generally simple, yet not insultingly so. There is, of course, action in the game but far from the spotlight. The limited inventory, enforces resource scarcity even when things are good. Everything just works together, as you get sucked in the tense mystic atmosphere. And at least I feel fully rewarded for my time and attention.

Signalis poster

→ Saturday November 12, 2022