I have been tempted by AYN Thor — but I have AYN Thor at home 🔗
AYN Thor is a clamshell Android gaming device that’s been at the height of the hype cycle for a good while. Everyone in the web who keeps talking [...]
Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.
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Thumbs up for a good adventure 🔗
IndieWeb Carnival and he has invited us to write about adventures: Close your eyes for a second. What comes to mind when you think of the wor [...]
Small bit of functional graphic design I like 🔗
I watch a lot of sports. Hundreds of hours every year. All major competitions that are broadcast here and some that require finding international so [...]
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is the Betamax of casino roguelikes 🔗
Balatro and Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers. It was a great year to be a gamer. First came out Balatro in February and as they say, rest is [...]
From Juhis with Love #013 - Sun is back 🔗
In March issue of From Juhis with Love, I share updates of my projects and lovely bits from the internet. Read #013 - Sun is back. [...]
I’m building a Python script to create form filling bookmarklets 🔗
In 2024 I wrote about how I like to create bookmarklets to help me fill in forms on apps and sites I develop. It’s not uncommon to have a dozen or [...]
How much change is the right amount of change? 🔗
a great piece about Slay the Spire 2 this week. In it, he wished that the developers would have made more changes and especially points out how dull [...]
New protocol proposal for indie web: human.json 🔗
The past week or so, the indie web circles have been talking about this new protocol proposal for a human.json file by Beto Dealmeida. Beto descri [...]
Markdown content split to sections in Eleventy and Nunjucks 🔗
Last night, while sitting in the train on my way home, I got nerdsniped into writing another Eleventy post by tlohde who asked if there was a [...]
I completed Stardew Valley’s shipping collection — in reverse 🔗
Gvendolynn’s video Completing the Entire Stardew Valley Shipping List in Reverse Order inspired me to give the challenge a go and experience the g [...]
Au revoir, Eleventy 🔗
static site generator Eleventy in the spring of 2018 from a colleague of mine. It had just released version 0.3.1 when I built the first Elevent [...]
Happy 10th birthday Stardew Valley 🔗
A pink cake is in order for the celebrations! Published in February 26th 2016, Stardew Valley has reached a very mature age of 10 years and [...]
Different notebook sizes for different ideas 🔗
I wrote about how I use it and that is still accurate. I always keep it with me either in my winter jacket’s pocket or in my backpack and whenever [...]
Them weird dreams 🔗
Obviously, it wasn’t quite that straight-forward. Almost always, the trick is that either one of them is impossible within the dream’s fabricated [...]
IndieWeb Carnival hosting Q&A with Zachary Kai 🔗
IndieWeb Carnival in May 2024 on the topic of creative environments and I’m hosting another one in May 2026 with a new topic. While waiting [...]
Taskmaster UK Series 7 is peak entertainment 🔗
Taskmaster Tier List. But they keep making more of them all around the world and I haven’t quite gotten to the finish line of writing about all of [...]
I made a board game zine 🔗
Roll the Zine, a board and card game focused 8-page zine. I really like the idea of zines and for a few years, I’ve been reading other people [...]
Gaming for busy people 🔗
Nintendo Switch and later continued with Steam Deck as both of them are mobile and crucially, they both provided a sleep mode where you could [...]
I added BookLore to my homelab 🔗
Happy 2026! Update: In March 2026, there was drama around BookLore and eventually the developer either deleted or privated the repository and all [...]
Year in Review 2025 🔗
Introduction Big Fat Quiz of The Year 2016, Mel Giedroyc described her year as: It was absolutely cracking. Marvellous. Every month rolled by b [...]
From Juhis with Love #012 - For a happy new year 🔗
In December issue of From Juhis with Love, I share updates of my projects and lovely bits from the internet. Read #012 - For a happy new year. [...]
We played a full Scarlet & Violet Progression Series 🔗
Pokémon TCG Progression Series (or Evolution Series as some call them). In such series, players open booster boxes of consecutive sets and after e [...]
Merry Christmas! 🔗
It’s Christmas Eve today and that’s when we in Finland celebrate Christmas. If you’re reading this when it comes out, I’m likely sitting at the Chri [...]
I played some games this year 🔗
played this year, not necessarily games published this year. These are not in any kind of order really. I’m sharing these in the spirit of [...]
Advent of Code 2025 retrospective 🔗
It feels weird to write an Advent of Code retrospective a week before Christmas. For years, it’s either been one of the last or first posts of the [...]
I’m a tool builder at heart 🔗
Two things in the past week made me think about tools and how I enjoy building them — often more than doing the things those tools enable us to do. [...]
Where are we going, IndieWeb? 🔗
My dear internet friend and intellectual sparring partner V.H. Belvadi is hosting things month’s IndieWeb Carnival and is asking us: where do you [...]
About writing and audience 🔗
do have? Richard Griffiths asked these questions in his post Why niche blogs and Small Rooms still win - even in the age of technofeudalism [...]
I built a tiny RSS generator for my Advent of Code solutions 🔗
RSS/Atom feeds are one of the great technologies in the open web. They allow me to follow other people and them to follow me. This week, I starte [...]