Out now!
A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
Nab your copy:
I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
NordLetter
I send out a newsletter once a week about living in Finland + five interesting things I've found on the open web.
Stream
Why RSS matters by Ben Werdmuller
RSS has always worked quietly in the background. In a moment when the web is being reshaped by enclosure, consolidation, and algorithmic mediation, its reliability is exactly what we need. It offers a simple, durable way for publishers to keep control of their distribution and for readers to keep control of their attention, without permission, platform lock-in, or hidden agendas. If we treat RSS not as a relic of an earlier web but as the strategic infrastructure it already is, it can continue to anchor a more open, more resilient, and more humane internet for decades to come.
I love RSS. I want a new way to read though. The current way of NetNewsWire is a little taxing. Maybe someone creates a new way to view the feed? Daily feed can also get bogged down if you have a fire hose feed.
Nothing’s community-designed Phone 3A adds some color and matching dice by Stevie Bonifield
The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition revamps Nothing’s usual monochrome look with a 90s-inspired design infused by pops of color. It’s updating the basic 3A’s transparent backplate with a teal tint, plus yellow and magenta buttons.
Looks pretty!
Podcasting is edutainment. If you try to have too highbrow a view of yourself, and only do education, you will lose. Don’t forget to have fun (rather than trying to get them to “drop alpha”), don’t forget to have a real human to human conversation (rather than blowing through your prepared question list point by point without regard to what the guest just said).
For someday, when I may make a podcast of my own.
Foreign students face financial ruin after agents sell false dream of 'world's happiest country'
The reform meant that students coming to Finland from outside the EU to study at third-level institutions were granted a continuous residence permit for the duration of their studies, instead of having to re-apply for the permit every year, as had previously been the case. They could also bring their families with them — with spouses now eligible to receive state support such as unemployment benefits and housing allowance, even though students themselves are not.
From personal anecdotes I’ve heard - some have received scholarships, some have borrowed money to come, some are working for Wolt, etc. What I did not know was the role of this change in law in this situation.
Oxide's internal tips on LLM use
As conversation length grows, each message gets more expensive while Claude gets dumber. That's a bad trade! Use /context and /cost or the statusline trick above to keep an eye on your context window. CC natively gives a percentage but it's sort of fake because it includes a large buffer of empty space to use for compacting.
Aligns with my experience. It’s better to start a new chat than trying to continue in the same chat hoping for a fix.
Also has a nice list of resources at the end.
