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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 24/09/2026

My nine games. I've looked at a few lists by other people, and none have had games this old. 😂 my9games.net/en/share/604... #My9Games

SimCity 2000, Civilization II, Stunts, The Incredible Machine, Worms 2, Deus Ex, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Fallout, and The Curse of the Monkey Island.

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 24/09/2026

Askartelin tällaisen palvelun Helsingin ja Espoon kaupinkipyörämatkadatan tarkasteluun: zeroone3010.github.io/kaupunkipyor... Kuluvan vuoden dataa ei ole vielä julkaistu, mutta tuolla on kaudet 2024-2025 sekä niiden sää tunneittain. #hsl #kaupunkipyörät #alepafillari #avoindata #Helsinki #Pyöräily 🚲

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 03/09/2026

I just learned that in addition to the already existing Swedish mini-series on Netflix, they're currently making #AnxiousPeople into a movie, with Angelina Jolie playing the bank manager Zara. 😃 #booksky

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 25/08/2026

Finished reading HHhH by @atahualpavasari.bsky.social. Enjoyed it -- as much as one can enjoy a recounting of a grim piece of history like this. #booksky

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 05/08/2026

Anyone in #booksky read this? Sheds light on how Nvidia seemingly suddenly became the most valuable company on Earth. Still, I couldn't figure out what makes this guy Jensen Huang tick. 🤔

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 05/08/2026

Stephen Witt: The Thinking Machine. Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip (2025) 📚: ville.saalo.moi/2026/08/05/stephen-…

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 03/08/2026

Any other fans of Sir Terry here in #booksky?

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 27/07/2026

Jamessimo has an interesting project here, a completely gridless city builder: youtu.be/4heM4MqK82w I, for one, will want to follow the progress on this one! #citybuilder

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Making my dream city builder: Part 1 - Parcels

YouTube video by jamessimo

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 17/07/2026

Do you still remember the time without, say, search engines? I really enjoyed the book This Is For Everyone by @timbl.bsky.social, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Here's my review: ville.saalo.moi/2026/07/16/t... 📚 #thisisforeveryone #booksky

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Tim Berners-Lee: This Is For Everyone (2025)

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 10/07/2026

I have needed some simple PNG editing tools from time to time, so I made this little service: pngtools.xyz There is no backend, editing happens in your browser only. No ads either. Give it a go and let me know if you find it useful! Made with ✨ vibes ✨.

Some delicious bilberries, just for the fun of it.

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 15/06/2026

I started with four links, now I've listed ten already. #junited2026

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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 12/06/2026

Search that works for you alone feels less like a tool and more like magic. ✨ See for yourself: kagi.com/magic 🪄

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Kagi - Take back your search

Somewhere along the way, search forgot its job. Today it's AI overviews you can't switch off.

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Nick Caruso @nickcarusoooo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

One last chat with the creators of #Hacks. 👇🏼

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 29/05/2026

Is AI profitable yet? That's a hard NO -- unless you're Nvidia: isaiprofitable.com 😅

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 27/05/2026

It's nice when @kagi.com just gets you. 😃

Kagi offers you a simple button to copy the greater than or equal to sign when you search for "gte symbol".

Google offers a wall of text, an "Ask anything" AI prompt, and a manual way of copying the needed symbol when you search for "gte symbol".

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 24/05/2026

Just in case something bad should happen to my open browser tabs, here's a list of resources I use to discover new blogs: ville.saalo.moi/2026/05/24/d... #IndieWeb

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Discovering IndieWeb content

How do you find good, authentic, personal blogs these days? …

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 13/05/2026

Shout-out to Hacks: I didn't even realize how much I had missed the show until I started watching the fifth season! 😊 www.imdb.com/title/tt1181... #hacks

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 08/05/2026

Someone posted a LEGO QR code containing their WiFi credentials online and people argued nobody could possibly know where the network physically was. That sent me down a small WiGLE / wardriving / vibe-coding rabbit hole: ville.saalo.moi/2026/05/09/v...

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Vibing a wardriving visualizer

A while ago someone was showing off their LEGO creation in …

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 30/03/2026

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 06/04/2026

I made this Bluesky bot to track speeding buses in my neighborhood, using the high frequency positioning API provided by the Helsinki Regional Traffic organization: bsky.app/profile/puks... Here's the full story in my blog: ville.saalo.moi/2026/03/27/b... 🚌

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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 02/04/2026

"Kagi reminds me of what search was meant to be: fast, focused, and useful. In an age where every click is monitored and monetized, paying for search might just be the most quietly radical thing you can do." Check out the full piece by @craiggrannell.bsky.social: www.tapsmart.com/features/abo...

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Google is free, so why pay for Kagi search on your iPhone? Here’s why

Remember when searching the web felt simple?

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 19/03/2026

Unmasking the Mask Magic, a very nice little case study on open source intelligence: youtu.be/WaeKwNzkMGM #osint

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Unmasking the Mask Magic - An OSINT Masterclass

YouTube video by Mishaal Khan

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 09/02/2026

Ok this is quite a project! New Titanic every day! 😅👌

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 09/02/2026

Did you know that only three of Titanic's four funnels actually carried smoke? One of them was, in fact, used mostly for ventilation instead. I couldn't fit this tidbit into my blog post, but I'm quite happy with the result anyway: ville.saalo.moi/2026/02/10/t... 🚢 #Titanic

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Titanic tidbits

My 5yo kid is having a Titanic phase: he wants to know …

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 12/12/2025

So true, there are so many nouns to learn. What's wrong with descriptive names?

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 11/12/2025

Wrote a blog post about what I thought software engineering was in the university, vs what it really turned out to be (spoiler: people). Any students of the trade around, do you recognize yourself from this? How about senior devs? ville.saalo.moi/2025/12/11/l... #softwareengineering #compsci 💻

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Lessons from years of software engineering

Early in my career when someone asked me in a job interview …

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 11/12/2025

Absolutely brilliant. 💎 "You ever found yourself trying to do something really simple, like show a username on a web page, but you can't because there's too much "architecture"? This one is for you."

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 09/12/2025

Just listened to this one, good stuff! 😃 Esolang books are very rare, but there happens to exist one in Finnish, if you're curious and adventurous enough -- pay what you want, even 0 €: payhip.com/b/Rd4b

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Outoa ohjelmointia - Esoteeriset ohjelmointikielet

A non-fiction book about the family of the esoteric programming language (Brainfuck, Piet, Befunge etc.), obviously also in the esoteric language of Finnish. Reviews include comments like "why", and "...

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 02/12/2025

The CAPTCHAs at 17track.net are the weirdest. What the actual fuck? I have no idea what's the logic behind these and couldn't solve them. I might be a robot. 😵‍💫 #captcha #ux

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 21/11/2025

Ha, I finally figured out some good use for the @kagi.com search result URL rewrites: when I search for some Java docs, the best matching results are always about Java 8. With a couple of regex rules, no matter which result I click, it takes me to the latest (Java 25) results. 👌

Kagi search for "java util list" has returned Java 8 docs from docs.oracle.com as the best matching result, but due to a custom redirect rule the URL actually points to Java 25 docs instead.

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 14/11/2025

Someone recently asked me if I use AI at my work. Funnily enough my first reaction was a "no", even though on further thought I use it a lot. Some thoughts: ville.saalo.moi/2025/11/13/u... #ai

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Using AI at work

Someone young not in the software business recently asked me …

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 13/11/2025

😈 My battle with the Scope Creep lasted for 18 sprints and was ultimately shattered by my ambition. Can anyone save this cursed project? scope-creep.xyz/share/candles #theScopeCreep

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The Scope Creep

A chilling tale of deliverables, deadlines and doomed decisions

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 04/11/2025

When us-east-1 went and took down about half the internet a couple of weeks ago, both the funniest and saddest casualty to me were smart beds whose users literally lost their sleep when the internet went down. My thoughts on the whole episode: ville.saalo.moi/2025/11/04/u...

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us-east-1, Eight Sleep, and the Internet of Things

A couple of weeks ago on October 20, 2025 Amazon Web …

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 20/10/2025

I read Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary the other day and enjoyed it. Looking forward to the upcoming movie! ville.saalo.moi/2025/10/13/a...

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Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary (2021)

A man wakes up from a coma in a strange cylindrical room, …

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Ville Saalo @ville.saalo.moi · 28/09/2025

Neal, the guy who made The Password Game that went viral a couple of years ago, has done other addictive stuff as well: ville.saalo.moi/2025/09/28/r...

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Random Things Sunday 11: Neal.fun, aka. Destroying your productivity

This time all the links are from the same site! This guy …

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