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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 30/09/2026

Samsung T7 Shield 2TB SSD price graph has literally gone exponential

2024: 100 eur
2025: 200 eur
2026: ramps from 250 to 600 eur

Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 28/09/2026

Hesitant to link to this because they seem to only have an X account and no AI disclosure…. Regardless, some neat concepts. Using trails to lessen the effect of not being able to see far from top-down. Allowing grunts, signs and drawing on ground instead of text or voice chat. eatmeatgames.net

Snippet from the website:

THE WORLD IS YOUR INTERFACE

The land communicates. You just have to
learn its language. Every detail can be a
clue.

GRASS REMEMBERS PASSAGE

Bent grass and broken plants show the way.

WEATHER CHANGES THE HUNT

Rain, wind and time constantly reshape the
world.

SNOW PRESERVES AND ERASES

Cold keeps signs longer, but new snow hides
everything.

DARKNESS HIDES INTENT

Night shifts every balance between predator and
prey.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 26/09/2026

This trick has been a real boon for quickly evaluating open-source code lately.

I’ve blocked claude on GitHub. I’m looking at a repo page and there’s a big yellow banner announcing claude has committed to this repo.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 24/09/2026

They went all out on this one. Jeez.

White network braching off a small nut-like blob. Looks like reaction diffusion, mycelium etc.

What looks like maybe the hand of a statue breaking into little pieces of stone, outlined with red glow

A tiny figure of The Major flying towards a cracking opening in an enormous blue… well, it looks like sperm swimming towards an egg.

Neon-hued closeup of the Major’s eyes, looking wondrous and perhaps starting to panic a tiny bit. Her pupils reflect the tips of three spires with angel-like figures on them, and falling feathers.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 24/09/2026

Rain from episode 7 of The Ghost in the Shell

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 24/09/2026

Apparently keeping them ~5 cm off the wall is good because, to put it simply, any more introduces progressively larger "pits" of volume loss at more and more important frequencies. The wall also boosts low frequencies though, which the rolloff switch compensates for. www.genelec.com/monitor-plac...

Distance effect graph from linked article

Wall bass effect graph from linked article

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 22/09/2026

Close to finishing my new website, but a bit unsure about this layout. Love how the page remains spatially almost identical at all widths, thanks to the horizontally scrollable sections.

The same page at 4 different viewport widths. Header illustration made out of purple dancing columns, aligned with the page’s actual column grid.

Each section on the page is made out of columns, which are horizontally scrollable: columns simply go offscreen when there’s not enough space. Page height remains roughly the same at all viewport widths.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 19/09/2026

Heh, hirez pixel font with optional blue-noise dithered texture. Neat. kilotype.de/families/lof...

LOFI FOREST

metallic texturing, sharp serifs, owl sitting inside the O

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 19/09/2026

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 19/09/2026

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 18/09/2026

Managed to make clicking a backdrop dismiss the associated menu, but the resulting CSS selector is truly horrific. Should probably have used the Popover API instead…. codepen.io/editor/jonik...

/*
if this li has a submenu,
and either the li or something inside it is hovered,
show it,
but hide the menu if it itself is being clicked
*/
&:has(> menu):where(:hover, :has(:hover)):not(
:has(menu:active):not(:has(li:active))
) {
/* show submenus (should work ok on mobile too) */
> menu {
display: block;
}

…

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 16/09/2026

Same deal on macOS: AI force-enabled, and the same checkboxes sprinkled around. Only taking up 10 GB though, and I actually gained 5 GB from somewhere by installing the update.

macOS Settings showing Apple Intelligence takes 10.19 GB

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 16/09/2026

I had Apple Intelligence turned off before updating to iOS 27. It’s now force-enabled and there’s no longer 1 checkbox to untick but 10, sprinkled across the OS. It’s also eaten up 20 GB storage. support.apple.com/guide/iphone... Think Different indeed.

iOS Settings storage view

Apple Intelligence
20,77 GB

iOS
15,91 GB

Total Size
36,68 GB

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 15/09/2026

This is a very funny part of iOS 27: a slider to interpolate between a bad design and a good design.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 11/09/2026

Finishing up a new personal website with a weird layout. A bit worried visitors might recoil at it, so I’m putting my gamedev hat on and adding a tutorial.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 07/09/2026

Overdue on some design tasks… gotta dig out the big guns

The books “Grid systems” and “The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems” by J. Müller-Brockmann, on my desk

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 05/09/2026

And this one, from Metaphor: ReFantazio.

The main menu: a huge and loud multitypographic list of options curving around a character's head as if exploding outward from it, and various grunge design elements all over

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 03/09/2026

After a burst of inspiration from some sweet print design (apwot.com), I think I'll give horizontal layouts another go. This is my old site from 13 (oh god) years ago. I always liked it, but browser bugs and lack of scroll-snap made it too clunky. Should be able to pull off a better version now.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 03/09/2026

why is everything like this

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 31/08/2026

Oh wow, there's a ton of explorable levels on noclip.website these days, from World of Warcraft, Ragnarok Online, Dark Souls, NeoTokyo, Skyward Sword…. Learning a bunch from just floating around in these.

Warsong Hold vista from World of Warcraft: cliffs rising from a crevasse in front of a castle, northern lights and floating platform in the distance

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 22/08/2026

Embarrassing achievement unlocked: finally beat the 4th battle in Final Fantasy Tactics. That difficulty spike stopped my every past playthrough. Please join me in appreciating this diagonal screenspace pixel texture they added in the remake.

Ramza in the Warrior's Guild, zoomed in to the pretty pixel lattice texture

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 20/08/2026

TIL about the Purkinje Effect: our eyes effectively amplify blue-green in dim light and red-yellow in bright light. Explains why hues in 3D rendering often feel so off. Images from here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2021/jpatry... Fancy code: www.shadertoy.com/view/lXy3DW

Very blue green night scene from Ghost of Tsushima

Same as previous image, but without the blue effect. Much darker and harder to see.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 12/08/2026

Love how the white soldiers look hungover as hell compared to the black ones

bone-carved-looking dark brown viking soldier piece, holding sword along side of head and kind of peeking from under it

bone-white viking soldier piece looking like he's leaning on his sword and never quite woke up this morning

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 12/08/2026

Dug up our copy of Hnefatafl for prototyping. These resin pieces are pretty neat. history-craft.co.uk/hnefatafl-vi... It's viking chess, basically: asymmetric teams and objectives, all pieces move like rooks, capture by surrounding.

Little carved-bone-looking vikingly king piece in my hand, with the game box with cloth map and other pieces in the background

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 05/08/2026

Planning to use these trestle(?) legs I already have (also from Bauhaus) for now. They're not very ergonomic, but can deal with wood expansion at least.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 05/08/2026

Had to get a new desktop and couldn't bear another piece of Ikea cardboard. Ended up spending too much effort on a slab of oak. Sandpapered by hand so it's all inconsistent, but was a lot of fun: could use little bits I'd learned in 3D graphics to figure out the rounding.

Gleaming oak desktop corner, corner rounding resembling a squircle

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 05/08/2026

I wish I could like and repost newsletters. 🖤 @blackdragonpress.co.uk

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 01/08/2026

That thing where you back a kickstarter and a year later it suddenly arrives with a pile of stretch goals you had no idea about. This pile's rather good though. Cat patch! @heikala.bsky.social

Pile of rewards for "The Art of Heikala: Realms of imagination", the art book. Fold-out quadriptych, metal-print, fancy mini sketchbook, metal bookmark, stickers, and a cat canvas patch.

Black ruffled cat canvas patch. Very cute.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 29/07/2026

A few days every year the sun sets at an angle just right to reflect off a tall office building in the horizon, and from the perspective of our apartment turns it into the Eye of Sauron.

Extremely orange and bright column of light shining from the horizon of a Finnish landscape

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 17/07/2026

Ok, I'm done with the game. The ending was a bit weird. Still one of the greatest games, and I loved it. Here's one final blast of nice screenshots, as spoiler-free as possible.

Boy walking along a narrow tunnel, hand leaning on the wall. Very dark blue and purple. Trickle of water leading towards more light ahead.

Sky full of long streaks of some kind, like god rays. Tall tower lit by evening sun.

Boy standing on ruins edge looking towards more tall ruins in the distance: various plateaus, things carved into cliff faces, one building still standing, and a huge surrounding cliff in the distance.

Boy and creature standing on bit of ruins taken over by lush plants. Very saturated shadows, evening rim lights.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 17/07/2026

Neat custom lighting trick: if the boy is directly between the camera and a strong light source, he turns into a black silhouette. Looks incredible at times, and works as an eerie callback to the previous games.

Boy standing in front of sunset disappearing behind a very tall cliff face. His head is full on black, but the black fades downwards, so the bottom of his tunic is just rather a warm and dim shadow with a thin but strong rim light.

Boy coming from dark passage onto an evening-suntouched balcony. He is completely black, darker than the passage.

Competely black-silhouetted boy looking back towards the camera, from up close. Very bright and foggy ruins in the background, showing we’re very high up.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 15/07/2026

The Last Guardian doesn't exactly run perfectly all the time, but it's a small price to pay for a world like this. These seem to all be real geometry. Very 3D, and not exactly low-poly. Even the skybox-looking cliff in the far horizon seemed real when I got close. Such strong presence.

Looking down between megastructure-like ruins of massive buildings, bottoms fading into fog

Looking down at a kind of megascaffolding, also disappearing into fog

Standing in front of huge temple-like complex ruin, horizon covered by very distant and massive cliff

Looking up at a very tall and intricate cave wall, some torches show scaffolding and platforms carved into it, freestanding stone pillars in front

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 14/07/2026

For those who don't know: this is The Last Guardian, sequel to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. People said bad things about it on release, so many including me never played it. Shouldn't have listened. I started a few days ago and it's already my favourite out of the three.

Boy carrying food barrel while the large animal friend stares hungrily from the dark, with flashlight eyes

Animal friend dashing across precarious walltop while carrying boy in its mouth like a kitten

Animal friend staring aesthetically up at a beautiful ceiling grate, with sunlight streaming through it

Boy looking towards animal friend as it comes around a corner, walking precariously along the side of what it clearly a very tall ruin. Distant enormous cliff in the distance.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 14/07/2026

Oh my god. I was trying to take an aesthetic video of the scenery and the camera turned on its own. Absolutely perfect encapsulation of this game.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 13/07/2026

Addicted to The Last Guardian. Love my catbirdgoat friend. What a stupendously good game. The camera though… almost as bad as in Ico. Gives my wife motion sickness from just watching, which is a huge bummer. Games need to pay more attention to camera accessibility.

Said animal looking down at boy protagonist

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 09/07/2026

Catching up on some classics I've never played this summer. Just finished Ico. A masterclass in letting and enabling the player figure out what to do. Terrible camera. And wonderfully intimate core mechanics, which I'm surprised to not have seen used as strongly since then.

Screenshot of an ingame cinematic showing Yorda looking aesthetically at a door somewhere inside the castle

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 07/07/2026

Oh cool, adding a weight axis took like 10 minutes. The grid kind of made it obvious how the shape should embolden: up from the baseline and down from the x-height line, but always sliding along the hex grid.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 06/07/2026

No idea what I'm doing but the overall shape of this glyph feels pretty neat. Maybe there's something there if I can just redraw it with curves. "Now draw the rest of the owl" vibes….

Some kind of wonky runic “n”, with a hex grid overlay: it follows the grid, sharp corners and all

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 06/07/2026

Neat thing I didn't know about fonts: they use integers! Each glyph in Fontra uses a 1000x1000 canvas by default, but you can change it. At ~16x16 it feels like a fun little puzzle. Low-poly modelling with integer positions, but the vertices are actually cubic spline control points.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 05/07/2026

But I don't want to make a literal pixel font, so I'm going to treat the pixels more like a grid and apply techniques from procedural terrain generation. Things like: dual grid tiles (image from @oskarstalberg.bsky.social), tile deformation, hex grid variant for italics, and so on. Should be fun.

Dual grid on square and hex grids. Shows you need very few tile variants to account for every possible combination of adjacent tiles.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 03/07/2026

Speaking of colour, I'm liking the combos you can pick for Rhinoshield's SolidX cases. Whoever chose these options knew their stuff.

iPhone 15 pink, with sage green cover + blush pink camera ring and buttons

iPhone Air black, with seaweed green cover + dawn clay buttons

iPhone Air black, with arctic grey cover + antique bronze buttons

iPhone Air black, with dawn clay cover + shell beige buttons

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 03/07/2026

Another one of those things traditional artists solved ages ago: just make the night out of cold hues instead of black. They don't have to be dark, and not necessarily even desaturated if you oversaturate the light. Outlines and/or rim lights help a lot too.

Artwork by I think Moebius? Tan-clad man with funny hat and a staff with a gleaming tip looking towards a crystal mountain. Armed people walking up to him from a camp under the mountain.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 01/07/2026

Dumb idea for a loading spinner. Needs some squash & stretch to work.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 01/07/2026

The sans version of Avona is also more fun with radial repetition. Could actually use some of these as icons…. /cc @arcanetype.com

Hexagonal icons made by radially repeating glyphs from Avona 6 times. W/w/V/v look like stars, j/i/l/1/h look vaguely arabic, C looks like wind or waves, 7 looks like a wheel made out of legs, # and * look icy, quote marks look scorching, and comma looks like a James Bond spiral.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 01/07/2026

Doodling branding some more before running off to summer vacation, I remembered I also have a license to an unfinished sans version of Avona. More of a display font than the serif, so it can make a logo that pulls more attention. This layout could be fun if I smooth out the touching bits?

The sans version is swashier, less rectangular. Trying out a staggered layout where the bottom of the last “l” in “Will” connects to the top of the “W” in “Wilds”.

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 27/06/2026

The lowercase "w" happens to tile really well into a hexagon shape. Looks a bit like roots growing underground. Also runic and mild horror vibes? The "o" as the eye doesn't quite fit here, but shows this could be turned into an Eye of Sauron type of thing.

Hex grid of tiles made out of radially repeating “w” glyphs from Avona Serif. There’s a lowercase “o” glyph inside the middlemost one: looks kind of like an eye or a ring.

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