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Fable Is Good
On Tuesday, I marked my long-running (nine-month-long) task of building my website on Astro. Most of my site was ready since a long time. I was able to have all the different categories of notes I wanted to have. I had…
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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.
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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.
Lately
Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, and the Nordletter.
July 2026
In and around Helsinki
How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection by Maris Kreizman
- The books to keep are the ones I keep revisiting.
The most important rule in book collecting is to make sure that the ones that are thoroughly underlined and marked up, the ones you found truly revelatory, are easily accessible. Looking at them every day becomes part of who you are, and to me that’s one of the best feelings in the world.
This one makes sense to me. It’s funny that the point I’m quoting is about keeping books and not culling them. Though most of the article reads like that.
I have a similar rule about books that I buy and keep on the shelf. These are books that I would re-read. Otherwise, the wonderful Helmet allows me to read as much as I want and could.
I think a reason why I loved Physics at school was because they had these stories of old physicists (Rutherford and all) trying to figure out how the world worked. Along with Physics, it was a history lesson too.
I’m reading a biography of Marie Curie right now.
Left the home early in the morning today. The city is different at this time, with mostly empty streets, workers cleaning the streets and so on.
I had a similar experience when we were going to Talinn. The sun had just arisen and there were bands of golden light across the buildings.
The France vs Morocco match was pretty boring. France are just that better. Hoping for a more entertaining Spain vs Belgium today.
Troubleshooting Common Kubernetes Problems
Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5 by Maxwell Zeff
Starting on July 12 at 11:59PM PT, subscribers to Anthropic’s $20, $100, and $200-a-month plans will need to pay additional usage-based fees to access Claude Fable 5, the consumer version of the company’s highly capable Mythos 5 AI model. This appears to be the first time a frontier AI lab has gated a consumer AI model behind usage-based billing.
This was going to happen at some point. But I don’t think this affects me that much. I mostly use Sonnet for everything. Even though Fable really came through for a bunch of redesigns and features I have wanted to add to the site for so long.
If I have similar requirements in the future, I guess I will just pay up.
One benefit of all these tweaks and features added to this site is that it has reduced the friction from actually posting stuff. Which is a two-edged sword if ever there were one.
I’ve tested the Instagram syndication and it works so damn well. Had to change a few things there - so that it does not include link back to my blog (IG is bad for sharing links anyway).
The other side of this is the photos page on my website, which looks how I want it to.
That's everything — you've reached the very beginning.