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I’m back… again!
That’s supposed to be a hand coming out of the ground. Yeah, I know!
If I decided to list out all the times I have taken a break from blogging, and started linking them out here, then in addition to it being a pretty long list, it would also be a fairly time-consuming and boring task. And time, and attention are too things, I am fairly a miser of, these days.
So, I’ll just begin.
The break, this time lasting close to a couple of months, was a well-intentioned one. This in stark contrast to all the times I’ve done this before. Times when I had been plain lazy. Lazy, yes, that’s a word I picked up today. A word that describes me, and has been describing me, quietly enough, for all my good years of college, and another one after that.
Lazy.
Not in a ‘ lazy people find short cuts ’ way, but rather in a ‘ you’re wasting your life away ’ kind of way. And if that was not clear enough, a bad way.
I am at a job, which allows should allow me, to write. It fits should fit perfectly with the plan I had; of a job not too taxing, of having time, and money, to write.
We must live after all!
But every once in a while, and a little too often for my liking, I find myself wondering if I did right; if I am doing right?
I look at my compatriots, mates, and otherwise, from college, people I know, people I did not know, doing things, that look so awesome!
See what I did there?
I could not even say that they are doing awesome things!
I look at them, doing these awesome things, and I question my decisions. I look at the world, building things; and I question my decisions. Yes, my decisions. Because, I chose this. And yet, now I question it.
This is reading more, and more the journal entry, I seldom make, and less, and less the blog post that it is supposed to be!
Getting back to the break then; I had decided to concentrate solely on finishing the book I have been meaning to finish for close to an year now. More, most probably. The stories have changed, true. And I am still halfway through, truer. But I had decided that I would finish this book, and then I would pick up the blogging from where I had left it.
And that had helped, initially.
See, I was writing. Really, I was! And then, I wasn’t. And then some other stuff happened. And today, I realized there was no point in not writing anything!
Because, ever since I had stopped writing, a couple of people who actually enjoyed reading what I wrote, here, had grown unhappy.
And I saw no good coming off of that!
Life is funny this way; at times it feels a little too short to do things that matter, and at others, a little too long, allowing you to sit back, and just breathe it all in!
So, I’m back here, hoping again, like the hopeless romantic I am, that this love affair will continue. That something good, presentable will come of it.
This, this is trash; but it needs to be out there too!
892 Backlinks
Was it blood or water?
Here I stand
Just the two of us..!!
Why do I like Shruti Hassan?
The Longing
Scared I was!!
What is Justice?
Us against the World!
That face among the faces!
Inverse!
The Code
Control?
The Foragers
The Ranchos and the Silencers
The Eye
Sorry!!
Lost
Zombie Land
The Living Sounds
it's Teacher's Day!!
How would you like your fiction served?
What is the difference between Education & Knowledge?
The Gita, Religion and Dharma
In your dreams!
Wake me up, when November ends!
Nobody woke me up, I'm up any ways!
Mistakes we make!
Daily Post: 1984 (Of Emptiness and Vastness)
Phoneography challange: My Neighbourhood
Stolen mint
A little something called Inertia
The Perfect* Road Trip
Why I need to blog
No Pressure, Really!
The Morality Factor
Daneel’s issue was with the scientific slowdown, the decline in the development of newer technologies or that’s how he illustrates his point. I on the other hand have my issues with the morality of the society, the civilization in large.
I deceive
Happy New Year?
Writers are
Writers are magicians; and inventors of time machines, and a lot of other stuff too.
Photographic memory
My first memories of being captured, on a photo film that is, consist of me being rushed to the terrace, followed by a change of clothes and a brief touch up, which is followed by introduction of two more kids almost the same age and then one of my brothers clicking the picture.
Photography Challenge: Day One
Day Two: The Lone Patch
Day Eight: Martyrdom
Day Nine: Reflections
Day Ten: Faces
Day Twelve: The Lord in the mountains
Day Eleven: Washed
Day Fourteen: The Hungry Man/Dog
Day Fifteen: Voice
Day Seventeen: Tarmac
Day Sixteen: In Death
Day Thirteen: Fall
Day Nineteen: People
Day Eighteen: Metro
Day TwentyTwo: Parallel
Day Twenty: Fog
Day TwentyOne: Sentinels of the Border
Day TwentyThree: Parallel
Day TwentyFour: Sport
Do what you want to!
Whatever you do, make sure that you are not doing what your father, mother or society wishes you to do because you don’t want to end up where you don’t want to be
Calculations
Title Matters. Really?
Success/Failure
Why I do not write long stuff here!
Who'll fight my wars?
There was this boy in school
Dealing with the World Cup
Poems
Why planning is important, but irrelevant
Good Days, Bad Days
Flow
Why should I read?
I lost me
What makes me happy?
Five Seconds of Life: 1. The trip
The benefits of living with T1D
We are all inspired!
FSoL: That's how we celebrate jobs!
Moving On
Surprises, and good stories
Moving On
How democratic is our democracy?
How important is grammar to a writer?
Writing about not writing
New Life: Ties, and cufflinks!
Universality
That blue bird!
Something new!
Decisions decisions!
Communication protocol
Coming Home!
Was
Who are you?
Do you remember?
At work!
Life!
Anonymous
Incomplete
Observations!
The journal
The Human Connection
Something about nothing!
The therapeutic act of writing
All the motivation you need!
The whorish aspect of things
Satisfaction
Children, and truth
Let's sail!
In search of 'Routine'
The Google or Windows dilemma
Why I decided to set a shipping date for my book
Progress
The idea of being a writer
On Tolerance
On Possessions
On Honesty
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : One
On Honesty, Part-II
The hopeful human condition
Fifty plus one
The second one
On Killing
New year, new rules!
My muse
On emotions
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : Two
On the competitive aspect of things
On s*x
Everything withers away
On writing : the numbers
Why you should spend a little less time working
Why happiness never seems to last
Why do you fight?
What if life were a game?
Why persistence matters
What to say to someone who's feeling down
Does setting a goal really help you?
Some numbers
It's funny!
I hold you
How it feels to finally finish that first draft
Why standing still is scary
Are you afraid of dying?
Are you tired of everything?
What does it take to be a writer?
Post a day!
Thoughts on self-hosting
Let's talk!
Who am I to you?
Washed lands
Why build walls?
Sometimes, I wish
How I felt when my Jawbone broke
Why places matter in a story
Life, Death & Priorities
Dragon-slayer
Here's how I plan to beat my laziness
What is a blog?
A day of firsts
Where we love
They killed some more men today
Birth, death and everything in between
Fiction takes time
Why I feel like an impostor at times
Things that I think about
#1 in an year of mornings
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Musings
Black box thinking: The surprising truth about success - Matthew Syed
This book talks about failures, how we treat them citing examples from industries ranging from aviation, healthcare, coding, cycling teams.
Do you trust me?
“If it were a dream”, he said, “would you spend it arguing what all this means, or..”
I wish I could fucking hibernate!
VB script run
Terraform variables
VM deployment to VMware
Linux ping multiple ips
Setup password less ssh
PowerShell Arrays
Windows Event ID reference
Jinja2 Reference
Ansible Jinja2 reference
Certificate remove password from private key
Compare private key and ssl
Three-tier CA setup
Certificate output in plaintext
Openssl generate csr
openssl convert pkcs to pem
Terraform scaling VMs
Raise a certificate request on Windows
Terraform bundle
Windows Force logoff users
Linux Add path to $path
Install go
Convert a dynamic dns record to static
VMware unable to unmount datastore
VMware packet capture using pktcap
VMware remove host from inventory
Terraform custom worker image
Windows RDP issue
Ansible Error handling
Ansible parallelism
Snmpwalk
PowerShell set custom properties for AD Users
Powershell run commands on remote servers
Windows Time service
PowerShell numbers
Ansible directory structure
Add SAN to cert request inf file method
VAMI interface on VMWare
VMware restart ui services
Cantrill, Adrian - SAAC02_03
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Installing cloudcenter agent
Installing cliqr agent for vmware cloud
Kubernetes certificate expiry fix
EC2 Basics
Azure AD Connect
Azure AD Connect Pre-Reqs
Azure AD Connect Upgrade from old version to new version
Export configuration of existing Azure AD Connect server
Entra Connect sync
VMware security certificates
Docker logs for all containers
AWS IAM
AWS Storage Gateway
Terraform azure reference
Ucs Changing Mtu Value Results in Esxi Not Booting and Other Issues
Assigning Multiple IPs to Single NIC
Kubernets certificate expiry fix
Kubernetes Pods Certificate Related
VMware using lsdoctor tool
VMware offline snapshots
PowerShell DNS reference
Powershell Issues with Returned Values from Remote Sessions
Robocopy reference
Solarwinds IPAM reference
Install terraform on ubuntu
Velero does not delete expired backups automatically
VMware SNMP troubleshooting
VMware increase max NFS on an ESXi
Remove vmware tools
Velero install
Platespin install
Windows make link
VSS writers in failed state
AD join fails with The Revision Level is Unknown
Cscript.exe is not recognised
Windows sysprep reference
PowerShell create custom object
Powershell install packages offline
Powershell install modules offline
Platespin FIPS Error
SamAccount Name limit
keytab
Run remote command cmd
Windows enable quota
vCenter upgrade
Vmware interop matrix
Eventcomb tool Account lockout
Ansible Automation Platform
Windows corrupt profile issue
Curl
Windows extend volume blocked by partition
ESXi hosts showing out of sync with distributed switch
Import csv data into infoblox
Windows disable ipv6
Ansible way
Ansible inventory
AAP controller rbac
OSI Model
VMware convert eager zeroed disk to lazy zeroed
infoblox ip reservation csv import
VMware logs
VMware upgrade license
Vmware check rdm details
VC appliance connect through winscp
Check which ansible collections are installed in image
Ports to be opened for Ansible Automation Platform
Managed service account does not work
UCS General
Windows set proxy
Openssh on Windows failing with 0x80072ee2
Azure AD sync SSO disable RC4
Install offline plugin notepad ++
Windows get last boot time
Windows what are current control sets
Windows how to tell if user group modification event is triggered due to group policy
Powershell pass variables to Invoke-Command
VMware connecting through winscp gives ftp error
Azure portal url list
Ansible Automation Platform Upgrade
Azure AD Connect Get current Configuration
VMware ESXi upgrade using ESXCLI
PowerShell check empty string
Windows cluster troubleshooting
Powershell second hop problem
svchost troubleshooting
Update and refresh a manifest
VMware MOB reference
Security guidelines
On Vmware tools
Windows delete shadow copies
How to check ldaps is working or not - ldp.exe
UCSM firmware upgrade
Azure Master
Microsoft Entra
Entra ID Managed Identities
Entra ID Roles
Windows server unable to patch
WSUS troubleshooting
VMware ESXi upgrade using baselines
Celebrating Sakraat in Finland
Nord Letter #1 - Celebrating Sakraat + What is art
I miss walking
Nord Letter #2 - Walking
PowerShell registry key related
Kevin Kelly - Excellent Advice for Living
Windows cluster Tuning Network Thresholds
Year One
Nord Letter #3 - I love you Prerna
Windows logoff user after period of inactivity
SMB share does not work for cluster
vMotion does not work
Delegate permission to restore deleted ad objects
Type of machine learning
NPS related
Authentication and Authorization
Entra MFA
Resource Groups
Azure RBAC
Azure Roles
Azure ABAC
Governance Overview
Create diagrams in obsidian
Azure Policy
Azure Naming
Azure Tagging
Resiliency Overview
How do Azure resources use resiliency
Azure Backup
Winrm troubleshooting
Recovery Point Objective
Recovery Time Objective
Set alias for cluster resource record
Types of data
Azure Storage Account
Remote Desktop Master
Azure File Sync
External Access
Connecting virtual networks
Connecting to Onprem
Home
Azure ExpressRoute
Azure Firewall
Network Security Groups
Azure Virtual WAN
Azure Service Endpoints and Service Endpoint Policies
Azure Private Link
Azure DNS
Azure VM Basics
Windows gives Continue dialog box even if we have existing permissions
Curl gives a handshake failure when trying to use ntlm to talk to Windows server
Azure Compute Gallery
Use Azure VMware solution if an org wants to move to cloud quickly
Azure VM scale sets
Azure Container Instance
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Container Apps
Azure App service
Azure Functions
Spring is here
Nord Letter #4 - Communal spaces @Iso Omena library
How to decommission an ESXi
Download host metrics report from Ansible Automation Platform
Azure SQL
Search ADAccount Timespan for AccountInactive
Federating again
Nord Letter #5 - Ghost Activitypub + Information Flow
Azure monitoring old
ARM template
Windows cluster packet loss causing failover
Hyvä Vappu
Nord Letter #6 - Vappu + Costs of consumerism
Was I a good brother to you
You needed me, But was I there?
Life happens + iPads galore
Nord Letter #7 - Meeting people + Food + iPads
Cherries all around
Nord Letter #8 - Folklore'24 + Roihuvuori Cherry Park + AI
Oodi for all
Nord Letter #9 - Oodi + Toolo + Copilot PCs
Ansible VMware module does sysprep by default
Delete IPs from existing subnet in Solarwinds IPAM
Five pillars of Azure well architected framework
Thoughts on AI
LLMs are AI models trained on the vast dataset of the internet. This allows them to predict, based on the earlier word, what is the most likeliest next word.
A trip to IKEA
Nord Letter #10 - Visiting IKEA, a pilgrimage
Postcard from Oitta
Nord Letter #11 - Pristine waters at Oitta
VMware find out when vmotion happened
Difference between Entra ID and ADDS
Yoga on Father's Day
Nord Letter #12 - Yoga celebration + WWDC announcements
Trek to Tallinn
Nord Letter #13 - Tallinn + bits around managing teams better
Convert etl to pcap packet capture
VMware not possible to forward only auth logs to splunk
Azure Import Export
ARM Bicep
We won!
Nord Letter #14 - World Cup win + lots of reading
Replace CNO for cluster
Create windows firewall with gpo
Enable or disable lockdown mode on vcenter
Set advanced setting vmware
Visit Porvoo
Nord Letter #15 - Day trip to Porvoo + a bit about fusion
Disable autoplay for all devices
Update
A case for being kinder to others
About Fundamental Attribution Error + Be kinder
VMware set SSH service
VMware disable warning for esxi ssh service
What Now?
Nord Letter #16 - Better at Yoga + New phones
Colophon
VNet Peering
Azure VPN
Create VNet Peering in Azure
Types of operations in Azure
Storage Spaces
Bicep variables
Bicep parameter files
Use Azure Key Vault with bicep
Bicep conditionals
Bicep loops
Bicep functions
Bicep dependencies
Celebrating Annaprashan
Nord Letter #17 - Annaprashan + Global Crowdstrike outage
How to handle dependencies in Bicep
Cluster validation causes alerts
Public IP address allows inbound access based on tier in Azure
Create Azure DNS zone and records
Azure Load Balancer
Azure Application Gateway
Azure Networking Basics
User defined routing
Nature trails - Nuuksio and Pihlajasaari
Nord Letter #18 - Nature trails + Beating procrastination
What resources can we backup using Azure Backup
Manage VM Templates in VMware content libraries
Create backup for VMs
Azure Monitoring
Clear recycle bin for all users
A day trip to Tampere
Nord Letter #19 - Tampere + foundations for a good life
Azure Log Analytics
Azure Network Watcher
Powershell rename cluster resource
Azure Monitor Alerts
Create an Azure metric alert
Create a log alert in Azure
Create activity log alerts in Azure
Missing home
Nord Letter #20 - What is home + Google is a monopolist
Increase memory allocated to VMware services
Create powershell offline repo
Restore files from Azure backup
Azure restore from backup
Restore VM from Azure backup
India Day
India Day + Reading the Egg
How to assign licenses to user or group in Azure
How to create a VPN Gateway
How to create S2S VPN
How to create P2S VPN
Ready or Not
Pixel Peeping + What is a photo
Entra Connect Password hash synchronization skipped in last 120 minutes
Azure Bastion
Entra ID tenant
Add custom domain to Entra ID
How to assign licenses in Entra
Glowtime
iPhone month is here + trees can heal you
Azure Resource Lock
ESXi set syslog
Azure Admin Associate
I passed the AZ 104 on 3rd Sep
Certified and it feels so good
Azure goals + Apple's DMA compliance
Thoughts on iPhone day
2024 edition
Original art
No art is original
Further thoughts on certifications and trainings
And marrying well
Made you cry
That's the goal
Disable SMBv1 on Windows
iPhones and Typography
iPhone 16 launch event + learn about typefaces and fonts
Troubleshoot Entra Connect Issues
Basics of typography
Good typography conveys emotion
Notes from the new OS releases
iOS18 + MacOS15 + WatchOS11
VMware set proxy
The joy of reading
Books transport you
Hello from the puddle
Nature
Spectacular Solar Punk
iPhone reviews + reading becky chambers
The good people of Finland
About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness
What are trails
But paths other have walked upon
Everything in nature that is born, dies
Life is what happens in the middle
How to use certreq to create a cert request
Losing someone
It's hard
Linkin Park are back
The emptiness machine
Our place in the world
Linkin Park are back + what is our place in this world
What is an iPhone
Answer - a computer
Science fiction does not have to be dystopian in order to be interesting
More hope for the world
Blue skies
Night skies
Sing!
Go on!
Where are we going
More iPhone (camera) reviews + AI future
The stories we tell
Of a place and a time
A world full of agents
Hey Siri fetch me a glass of water!
The custodian for all human knowledge
AIs trained on the web make the web a worse place
Who will advocate for the future
Leave a better world than you found
We don't want intelligence
We want slaves
A head full of dreams
Writing every day + AI + Metaverse
Why walk the same path every day
Ignore the path
Keeping promises
Everything can teach us something
Help us grow
Split brain DNS
The problem with read-it-later apps
It feels like stripping character from the web
How to tell stories
Stories need to surprise
Of shinobis and reading
Visiting Restaurant Shinobi + Reading on devices and the web
Hopes and dreams for the fediverse
Interop everywhere
Look at the stars
Look at the sun
The future of Kindle
More notes please!
Going home
To Delhi
Living with bindis
Going back home
Trip to India
A tale of two airlines
Finnair good. SpiceJet shit.
how to blog
daily posts?
Bimba
The art hut
Untitled
Diwali + Tips + New Macs
When to let go
Life withers away
Two places
The human condition
Curing cancer + e-Vitara + President of the USA
Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali
Good business
Buying old furniture from failed startups + POSSE
Where is home
The expat's dilemma + Social Web + Net News Wire
Where you do yoga matters
Or, the poisonous Delhi air sucks ass
Trusting people to do the work they were hired to do
Curb micro-management
Be positive
And not just in the abstract sense.
Life everywhere
But not in the way you expect
Love and Despair
Reading poems
Helsinki Christmas Market
Two fun videos + two business concepts + something about rats
Proprietary formats
A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown
Manually cleaning DFSR folder
Delete everything under a folder powershell
Import GPO
Duo all the way
Learning (Playing?) on Duolingo
Types of workers in an organisation
Or, evolution of the type of worker you are
Why are there no small photo sharing apps
There is an opportunity here
Beating death
Living forever
Building furniture
A traditional Ikea holiday
Before and after
Sinitarra + who owns your words + Intel drama
Notes on obsidian
Some things which do not work
Writing more vs less
Reducing vs habit
Becky Chambers - A closed and Common Orbit
Birthdays are funny
Another year around the sun! Yay!
What is love?
An year hence
The things we don't need
We should let those go, no?
Music can remind you of things
It can transport you, across time and space
The families we make
2 hopeful things + electric cars might last longer + the age of average + one more thing about AI
Digital consumption does not let me do actual work
It affects my ability to focus and remember
We can have a fun conversation with max four people
Shakespeare got it
We don't own anything in this age of subscriptions
An accidents leads to a little peak behind the curtain
The net good or bad of AI
Balancing the perceived benefits against the harms
No pity for the bosses
Apps make everything legal
How do I know if someone subscribed to me via RSS
Fans everywhere. Fans nowhere.
Riddell, Chris - Poems to Fall in Love with
An excellent collection of poetry on love with wonderful art
Advanced civilisations could be indistinguishable from nature
A sustainable solution to the fermi paradox
Feels like Christmas
Delhi Rasoi + decaying internet + bad Spotify + solar probe
Sitting and talking
a place to be less alone
Becky Chambers - Record of a Spaceborn Few
The third book in the wayfarer series
Two lessons on work
Show your work + Ask for help
Books I've read this year
16 - that's the number
Playful eyes
When to write
When you're away from the keyboard
Writing and publishing
Playing TT at Vox + Car makers merging + paper passports might die
Rain, like mist
Build a bridge to your corner of the web
Self host
Hard works trumps talent every time
Every damn time
Rethinking what and how I write on this website
How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things
How to use habituation to your benefit
Recognise. Breaks in good. No breaks in bad.
Sometimes all it takes is magic
Sometimes magic is working harder than imagined possible
A happy new year
Most things are still the same + AI roundups + good things that happened in 2024
I figured out what to do
How to write here
Would you enjoy killing more human NPCs?
Nvidia’s AI NPCs can become your allies
About glue work
Is glue work bad? Depends.
I do not know what to do
Part #3 of what to do and how to post my damn links
Meta will not do fact-checking anymore
Meta goes MAGA?
Chambers, Becky - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
The fourth and final book in the wayfarer series
How to complain
Or, how to make your boss's life easier
I’ve become afraid of keeping thoughts in my head
The consequence of thinking while writing
The value of consistency
Discipline and repetition
Ice, Ice, baby!
Snow falls + Dark energy may not exist + why is American diet bad + kids can't use computers
Sakraat redux
Second year of celebrating Makar Sankranti in Finland + 2 things about social apps
Parenting is full of contradictions
Sleep child, sleep!
The next four years are going to be a drag
Spent in dread
The two factors that allow services to be terrible
My WhatsApp story
You can’t have one without the other
Actions and consequences
I need to talk to more people, more often
And hear their stories
Embracing the light
Light mode / dark mode
What a mess!
Living with a kid in a messy home
Celebrating the Republic
Republic Day at the embassy + OpenAI announces Operator + Trumps first few orders + some life lessons
Why do I read more on the web
The phone, that’s the answer.
A week of AI news
Deepsek and the others
Murakami, Haruki - Men Without Women
I love the book, and the object that it is
Designing a book
With a little bit of quirkiness
Sleep well
Yoga helps you know your body
Good food, good life
Finland's PR changes + VPNs + Why are so many people wearing glasses now + a succinct take on AI
Once upon a time, we almost lost everything
A story of a near victim of a cyber crime
Should you pay for search?
Public services should be subsidised
The last work left in this world
Train the models!
Preparedness Day
Fighting flu + smaller AI models + timeline apps
The three types of code I write
slapdash, scrappy and production-grade
Why work?
The myths of work
Update firewall on VMware
About the marshmallow experiment
And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up
Sync less, please?
About reading on NNW
Books by Sajal
These are just poems
A year of mornings
Week of love
Celebrating our second anniversary by having a date night at Classic Pizza
How the coffee breaks have changed
Answer: more time on phones
About system volume information
Savya-Sajal
Coalescing into my son
Reading is better than watching movies
If it’s the same story
About Garbage
And how its our responsibility
About reflections on writing
From people who have been doing this for many years
Liu, Cixin - The three-body problem
The first book in the remembrance of earth's past series
Things change when you become a parent
Life goes on
LLMs are being deployed in factories
How does that make you feel?
AD Database files location
Disable TLS 1.0
Writing meet-ups
Shutup and write + 2 opposite views on where the society is going + save your attention
Spring already?
how does a city form
Kindle bad + AI poet + chip designer + good bye Finland
Warming up to LLMs
Using copilot to update my book page
Seeing it for the first time
Following Apple rumours
About the Pareto principle
And the value of putting in the work
Find out authentication logs in VMware vCenter
How I use Obsidian
Notes on note-taking
Walk a little
All work is creative
We are all addicted to our phones
And a few rules I have
How to upgrade Domain Controller
Sit on the floor with your child and play
Spend time playing with your child
what matters to you
A year of mornings available everywhere now + EV for the masses + new Apple stuff
Don’t call me a writer!
I hate the spotlight
Installing remote desktop on standalone server
Which iPad do I get in 2025?
About the state of the iPad lineup
Providing customisation options to users is a great thing
Adventures in configuring tools to work better
Set ACL using CLI
Good food takes time to prepare
Patience is a virtue
You can’t make friendships happen
Holi redux
Playing Holi + Death Stranding 2 + black hole universe + some bad news in AI land
What is Nordletter about?
Or, how to write about the same thing perpetually?
The contexts in which I use my phone
Thinking about phone usage + productivity
Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone
Focus modes + Shortcuts magic
The things we make
Apple rumours + Learn some AI python
A weird day
Something felt off
Ghost announces beginning of the public beta for the social web
Public beta for fediverse support is live now
Maybe we should not have connected
Mixing DS2, Mastodon and Fediverse
Be a hybrid
Have expertise in two or more things
Configure PDC with authoritative Time source
My ego would not let me say sorry
Forcefully uninstall software from windows
Boiling frogs and global warming
Duplicating everything
Stop re-doing everything
How would the web work in an increasingly AI-fied world
My own writing Meetup
Happening on 6th April + smart homes suck as do smart TVs
It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar
I don’t need to count anymore
Balancing new tech and its maintainance
Temu as a form of soft power
A realisation amidst assembling cheap stuff from Temu
The three places where I noticed Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence comes to India (English)
Election time
Election stories + Apple AI is not a bust, AI is a bust + some things to change on your phone
Elections in Finland
About the local elections
I voted for the first time in Finland
In the municipal + county elections of 2025
Find paths longer than 260 characters
Organizing the things in our life
The value of knowing where things are
I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family
Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk
Everything you type in your iPhone could be used to train a digital you
Make more detailed notes
VMware change NIC order
Moving my home on the web
Just because you can do something does not mean you should
A writer's apocalypse approaches
What would you do?
Teenagers + AI can be a partner + Meta doing Meta things + Love Death and Robots!
What would you do without me?
Remarry (Bad jokes and me)
Reading children’s books
They are so damn beautiful
We need to learn the technique in the beginning and then leave it behind
Don't think too much about the rules
A tale of four chat bots
ESXi firmware upgrade baseline fails to apply with incompatible message
The reason why I want to move my home on the world
Going northern light hunting
And a bunch of AI use cases + Zuck shot himself in the foot
Cixin Liu - The dark forest
The second book in the three body problem series
Attending the Global AI Bootcamp in Helsinki
Tribes
We join them