I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am also the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
I send out a newsletter once a week about living in Finland + five interesting things I've found on the open web.
Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, and the Nordletter.
Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers by Tom Warren
If you want to use more than the 15 hours included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you’ll need to purchase additional cloud playtime through the Xbox store starting in November. Microsoft isn’t revealing exact pricing and details today, but Xbox cloud players will be able to purchase bundles of hours that can roll over if unused in a particular month.
It used to be unlimited before this.
The Safest Job from AI may be Writing
While the programmer's job description is getting completely refactored, writing remains surprisingly unaffected. LLMs have gotten very good at generating code, but I am appalled at the absolute shit they spew as prose. They always follow the same robotic cadence and cliches, and sprinkle the same tired vocabulary all around. They take my broken yet soulful writing and transform it into a plastic soulless word slop in the name of improving prose. Their writing communicates no actual understanding and insight. I think we are all developing a visceral ick reaction to AI writing. It is trapped in the uncanny valley, and it may be stuck there for a long time.
I remember when writing was considered dead after ChatGPT came out. There were many discussions - blogs, podcasts, and otherwise - declaring writing to be dead. And here we are.
There have been multiple instances now of me recognising a piece of writing as having been AI generated. And that's just sad. Of course LinkedIn is full of AI assisted writing. I guess for people who can't write (or don't feel they can write) it is a great tool. But everything ends up feeling the same.
I had a funny feeling just yesterday when Prerna found a typo in my LinkedIn post. And I thought hey, that's just proof that a human wrote this!
I have high expecting going into this meetup. Vibe Coding Finland meet-ups are awesome always. Great talks. Great conversations. "Al and out evolving…
Games I want to play (or atleast buy) this year -
I went to Oodi this Sunday, even though I tried not to. I was trying to push Prerna to come here, so that she could study. She had a similar goal. Eventually, I relented. Oodi was full. On the side where Prerna usually…
Fredrik Backman
I uninstalled NetNewsWire from my iPhone today. Last night, as I was dozing off, I had this feeling, this feeling that I've had many times in the past, that…
The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster by Jay Peters
CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th.
It will be a free upgrade for existing owners of the base game. I loved the original game but haven’t played the expansion yet. Maybe I will now, along with the new expansion.
Where to preorder the updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio by Brad Bourque
Apple has announced two new processors, the M6 and M5 Ultra, as well as updated Mac Mini and Mac studio machines powered by them. The new machines are already available for preorder directly from Apple, with shipping for most configurations starting on September 22nd, 2026.
Tempting. But I read somewhere the M7 chip is going to be the bomb wrt AI inference. So maybe I’ll wait.
2027 Macs to Get AI-Focused M7 Chips as Apple Skips High-End M6
Apple plans to release an M6 chip for entry-level Macs as soon as this year, but it has canceled plans for higher-end M6 Pro and M6 Max chips. Instead, Apple's next Pro and Max chips will be part of its M7 chip lineup, with the first M7 chips launching in 2027. An M5 Ultra chip could also come as soon as this year.
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