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English version below ↓.Post contains Hardcover referral links, which give me one free month of better features for every two new users. Loma tuntuu aina olevan sellainen hetki kun päädyn etsimään, tutkimaan ja testaamaan erilaisia sovelluksia sekä verkkopalveluita. Juuri pääsin vasta vaihtamasta RSS lukijan Feedlystä Feedbiniin. Tällä kertaa innostuin miettimään palvelua luettujen kirjojen seuraamiseen sekä …

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Feedly kindly sent me an reminder that my subscription was about to be renewed. They were also kind to tell how much they would be charging me. It was a lot. 153,84 euros to be exact.

When all this started, I questioned if I would resume my WordPress contributions that had been on hiatus. When all started going really batshit crazy, I questioned it even more. All that made me sad. I do believe in WordPress’s mission. I do believe in FOSS and it having a positive impact to our world. …

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Brian Coords wrote an excellent alternative reality version of how things could have gone at WCUS this year. Definitely worth a read.

Once I was a person who wanted to to follow as many things as possible related to topics and projects that interested me. Once I was a person who lurked in many places to stay up to date with lots of stuff. Once I was a person who subscribed to many newsletters and podcasts. Once …

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Just a list of plugins that do the job really well, which is something that makes me really, really happy. These are in my go-to list and in constant use. Not in any particular order.

In the past week, I have stumbled into two separate blog posts about the same thing: how it feels like finding interesting websites has become harder, and we let the algorithms curate the internet for us. The first of the posts mentioned was in the Hacker Newsletter, and Aaron Jorbin shared the latter. Those posts hit home for two reasons;

Originally published in Finnish on dude.fi. Seven years and eight months ago, I was at a crossroads in my life. I was in need of new challenges, and the hustle and bustle of Helsinki had started to wear on my soul.

Updating my now page was a long due. I’ve moved the task on Akiflow forward countless times. Now that I’m finally updating that page, I figured out tha I might as well write a small life update on the blog. Well, this post also acts as an easy way to tell some big-picture things simultaneously …

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