2023-03-27: It’s spring in Helsinki!

2023-03-27: ☃️

2023-03-21: My Backblaze backup has entered some kind of “safety freeze”. Apparently, if you use …

2023-03-21: I unironically love it when you open a man page and it just straight up assumes you don’t know …

2023-03-21: När man är utvilad nog att vara vaken och man stiger upp Vrider upp musiken av bara farten Förvånad …

2023-03-16: Here’s a rare plug for my work: try the (free) F-Secure beta, called FS Protection! It …

2023-03-11: Turns out I had been triggering various security monitoring alerts, which in hindsight is quite …

2023-03-11: About 20(!) years ago, my bank had a simple password login option with read-only access e.g. account …

2023-03-11: My bank has innovated so much I now get three different push notifications when I pay for something …

2023-03-02: My UTM Documents folder with all my virtual machines now amount to 8.8 TB of disk space, or possibly …

2023-03-02: Speaking of UTM, it may be time for me to clean up my temporary virtual machines. I miss the …

2023-03-02: Has anyone concocted an /etc/fstab entry that would automatically mount a virtiofs shared with a …

2023-02-17: LSiw8MfIkhK7xUXudZCo_2Zl6joVfNt6wq-_6P0my_wn9Db-C3P1l8NvqP_19VxuPH29dytPQm8JTA13O-R0fN9nVr__aA7PN2vn …

2023-02-11: Our HomePods have gone completely mad in the last few days. First geolocation automations started …

2023-02-04: I rarely see this level of CPU utilization. My lap is very warm now (yes this is on Intel, an 8-core …

2023-02-04: I live in Finland, my device language is set to Swedish, so obviously Disney+ presents a dialog in …

2023-02-04: I miss this

2023-02-01: Pick your fighter

2023-01-31:

2023-01-29: Oh shit I have only five minutes of screen time left, say something fun real quick!

2023-01-27: Hakaniemi/Hagnäs as seen from Kruununhaka/Kronohagen, 5 years apart

2023-01-25: Mastodon followers, could anyone of you actually see the photo in this post in your timeline …

2023-01-25: Pile of Hardware™ behind my desk at the office

2023-01-24: Anyone know what was going on on Porthaninkatu/Fleminginkatu around 19:00? Street was blocked by …

2023-01-21: Re-ran my mastomigrate.sh script with the latest Fedifinder export, and it looks like I now follow …

2023-01-19: I… what… why is tram 8 taking the wrong route?

2023-01-12: Wet shoes. Wet pants. Wet face. Wet glasses. My phone doesn’t recognise me. Good morning!

2023-01-10: One minute of a train ride through a wintery southern Finland

2023-01-06: Red/green

2023-01-03: Pretty lights on my evening walk (link to video)

2023-01-03: A winter suddenly reappeared

2023-01-02: Good morning

2023-01-01: Happy new year!

2022-12-31: JSKG4zhQGqsDTdZfnjfKwybn-J2_CX39XKFPZ_tw-8ZiH2GvxJA-pOybeiH-EvCKeOU8uo4BzyLlfzU_25f_syDbfhD4_bef87rg …

2022-12-31: Built a scyscraper in Townscaper

2022-12-30: 20+ cops outside S-Market Vallila about two hours ago, anyone know what was going on?

2022-12-28: As I don’t have Twitter anymore I need alternate sources of entertainment. Today I’ve followed …

2022-12-21: Terrace open! Lovely day for a drink outdoors isn’t it?

2022-12-19: Tempted to login to Twitter just to check if my account has been banned for violating the “Promotion …

2022-12-18: I found this, which shows that even with LEDs, manufacturing is a very small part of the overall …

2022-12-18: In our bathroom we have a grid of 9 36 W halogen bulbs. I just replaced two of them with 6 W LEDs. …

2022-12-17: Happy to see that some of my favorite bots are appearing here too! 00:22 on Friday December 16th, …

2022-12-17: Made a tiny modification to the Mastodon -> micro.blog follower import script I made in 2018 so …

2022-12-17: “Hey Siri, play Radio Helsinki” Siri:

2022-12-17: Snowy flowers on the balcony

2022-12-16: Evening walk

2022-12-16: Makes me wish I could pull off earings so that I could wear this cool JWST bling Just listed: #JWST …

2022-12-14: Critical infrastructure hardware update at work

2022-12-13: Irrationally happy about my timing of the tram arrival today

2022-12-13: Winter morning commute

2022-12-12: Every time I think Elon has reached a new level of irresponsibility, he finds a way to be even more …

2022-12-11: It’s ridiculously wintery

2022-12-11: Favourite record store in Helsinki?

2022-12-11: For some reason my watch can no longer show negative temperatures. No idea what’s going on.

2022-12-11: My neighborhood, february 1944.

2022-12-10: Nobel prize eve!

2022-12-08: “We regret to inform you that your flight is delayed” my airline kindly informs me 23 minutes after …

2022-12-08: Cold morning

2022-12-07: That mixed feeling of when ~all unit tests are failing, and then you just restructure your code to …

2022-12-06: A Stockholm suddenly appears!

2022-12-06: Every time I travel abroad I’m afraid I’ll have to pay with chip & PIN because I have no idea …

2022-12-04: Respect the Midas

2022-12-03: Now ChatGPT is confused about Finnish and Swedish the other way around

2022-12-02: Evening walk

2022-12-02: ChatGPT is very confused about Finnish and Swedish.

2022-12-01: I don’t know why, but seeing the newly installed traffic lights come alive after a long period …

2022-11-30: It’s such a weird snapshot into someone’s life when a customer sends you a screenshot of …

2022-11-29: Meditating with Townscape

2022-11-29: Good to see that UPS stays true to character and lies about me not being home when I’ve been home …

2022-11-28: TIL Rosetta in macOS comes with a haiku

2022-11-26: ”Hagns”

2022-11-26: ”Bjrnparken”

2022-11-23: I may have to close the blinds :-(

2022-11-23: The clouds outside my office window are acting all dramatic

2022-11-22: These houses are just ridiculously cute though?

2022-11-19: First snow, enough to make a snow lantern!

2022-11-16: 🎈

2022-11-15: Same route about 3 months ago

2022-11-15: Morning commute is getting a bit gloomy

2022-11-15: Yesterday we finally released our fully Apple Silicon native product to the public. It’s been …

2022-11-13: Father’s Day coffee in the sunset (at 15:21)

2022-11-12: Why yes I did indeed just run git clean -fxd in a big codebase where I had just spent hours …

2022-11-11: Tokoinranta hole in the ground

2022-11-11: New hardware arrived at the office today!

2022-11-09: Evidence:

2022-11-09: My phone claims that my right AirPod is charging. It is currently in my ear. The only possible …

2022-11-08: What’s up with the sudden hole in Tokoinranta?

2022-11-07: Hiding in the shadows

2022-11-07: Post-influenza vaccination coffee. If I look tired it’s because I am.

2022-11-06: Will a micro.blog with ActivityPub enabled show up in Fedifinder? I started wondering because it …

2022-11-02: My and my 7-year-old have both been home sick this week & we built this awesome candy sorting …

2022-11-02: There’s actually some activity on my combined micro.blog + Mastodon timeline now. Share your …

2021-04-12: How nice that there’s a native Messenger app so that I don’t have to have to waste CPU energy on …

2021-03-19: Office visit today, where I played Pinball Dreams on an M1 Mac and watched Star Trek TNG. One of …

2020-11-25: I’m a bit late to the party but my hammer is finally black.

2020-11-25: A colleague experimenting with Audio Units and accidentally ending up with a high-pitched voice …

2020-11-24: DevTerm looks glorious. I have no idea what I’d use it for, but I definitely want one. …

2020-11-23: It was nice seeing some sun today for a change

2020-11-22: My watch has decided that the sunrise is about to start

2020-11-18: Come on, I need this download to finish before my 14:00 meeting or the tubes will be all clogged

2020-11-16: Happy birthday to me 🥳

2020-11-14: My technology stack in 2007

2020-10-27: That’s the nicest thing an app has ever said to me.

2020-09-26: On a boat.

2020-09-09: Apparently this is a “USB Micro B” cable. TIL. Why oh why

2020-09-09: Improvised stand-up desk

2020-09-05: Why is my Timeline in Sunlit empty? @help

2020-08-30: Met Veera the robot at the library. It took the elevator down.

2020-08-28: Internet! Help! My 5yo son decorated my old laptop with awesome stickers. We managed to transfer …

2020-08-25: Would love to get a new Roomba but our old one just keeps on working. And it’s 10 years old this …

2020-08-25: WFH desk is a bit crowded

2020-08-21: Coffee situation: improved

2020-08-21: Sunny office today

2020-08-20: I’m also downloading some fresh games

2020-08-20: Just doing some macOS Big Sur testing by browsing some cool apps on Mac App Store.

2020-08-20: This is not what I expected as the third and fourth hits when I googled for ‘log show …

2020-08-20: Happy 13:37 o’clock

2020-08-04: Back to work

2020-06-29:

2020-06-28: Midnight in Helsinki

2020-06-26: Lunch!

2020-06-23: WWDC home lab setup

2020-06-21: Summer solstice

2019-10-19: Yum

2019-03-24: I would like a device that simply takes digital audio input and sends it to an AirPlay receiver. How …

2019-02-07: Instinctively typed “spctl –list” and learned that it’s apparently an …

2019-02-01: Downloading some in-flight entertainment while waiting for boarding

2019-02-01: TIL that the Swedish government jets are called …. SWEDEFORCE

2019-01-30: Got a delivery at the office

2019-01-26: It’s been a pretty good January but I think I’m going to give up on today

2019-01-23: Apple Watch unlock on macOS is pretty nice (now that it’s somewhat reliable), but what I’d …

2019-01-23: Hey it’s softwareupdate -iaR day!

2019-01-22: Today I learned that the iOS Shortcuts app can make SSH connection and run remote scripts as part of …

2019-01-15: After software update-induced reboot, macOS these days logs you in automatically but starts up with …

2019-01-14: My Babbage mug from the computer history museum in Mountain View broke again ☹️

2019-01-12: Buy or rent?

2019-01-08: A different kind of 🤯: twitter.com/lenanvinc…

2019-01-08: I’ve been waiting for the AirPod charging case to reach a 100% for an hour now 🤯

2018-12-20: Hmm I wonder what happens if I install this on my Mac?

2018-12-11: This is some pretty crazy space stuff going on right now

2018-12-11: oh… 10.14.1 sources posted – with xnu!

2018-12-11: My watch thinks it’s snowing in Helsinki and raining in Helsingfors 🤔

2018-12-10: Nobel night

2018-12-09: (tmutil deletelocalsnapshots to the rescue. I had forgot all about this feature.)

2018-12-09: I suppose it’s local Time Machine snapshots, which wouldn’t be a a problem except that Photos keeps …

2018-12-09: After a cleanup, I have 591 GB free. According to Finder, that is. df -h says I have 96 GB …

2018-12-07: It looks like in Mojave (and maybe later High Sierra releases) the “ps” command can …

2018-12-07: I was going to post this photo of the WWDC 2018 Finland pin for Independence Day yesterday but …

2018-12-06: Happy birthday Finland!

2018-12-04: Got a book! #NeXT

2018-11-27: I’ve been using dyn.com since forever for my DNS needs but would like something …

2018-11-26: I wish to express my sincere thanks to whoever at Apple took the effort to make the “log …

2018-11-25: This clock looks gorgeous but … $2000?! www.daliborfarny.com/product/z… (via …

2018-11-19: Bought a thing from Amazon UK last week, and it hit me that it was probably the last thing …

2018-11-18: Quit a lot of interesting things going on in the macOS UIKit support. Also, how does Activity …

2018-11-15: So thanks to some tips from @manton I ended up making a simple script to migrate Mastodon follows to …

2018-11-15: Anyway I was hoping someone on the interwebs knows something about MIDI on macOS: if I use …

2018-11-15: Set up ActivityPub for micro.blog, transferring a bunch of my Mastodon follows there, and finally …