I am this blog post away from 2020 being completed for me. I won’t be missing this year and outside professional life (which hopefully will be productive and fulfilling) I only have one thing I promise to do next year: on Saturdays I will not do anything (professionally) useful. Only rest, family time, and entertainment allowed.

I will get back to professional parts early next year. I just say that I am thankful I survived this year unlike far too many others and I hope we will soon start getting back to being social beings again.

I wish everyone a happier new year with a summer picture from one of my favourite spots on Earth (Summasjärvi, Saarijärvi, Central Finland)!

Quick walk with new shoes. This was the most snow I saw.

I wish Apple had its own, solid password manager with family sharing. I love 1password but it has so many rough edges in usability for non-tech people…

Daily tech tip from a random SO answer. One can run iTerm over Rosetta which pretty much takes away all the issues related to tools not yet ready for Apple Silicon. Just hoping it won’t come back to bite me when everything is 🙃

Go to finder, locate iTerm app, open up “info” either with ⌘+I or right-click menu

Current weather: wet

Another waterfall photo to conclude the busiest microblogging day for me ever.

I am worried about options and competition in traditional, micro-computer style Personal Computers after seeing M1 Macs. I hope Microsoft gets its chip act together and comes out with a competitive ARM based solution for Windows space. And someone for Linux desktop computing.

Thing that I encountered through CodePen newsletter css-doodle. Is very nice. Maybe some day I will create something with this

I think I might need to publish my very simple Chrome browser plugin to create markdown link for a current page just to make it easier to get it on new computers through sync

This was the final fiction book of the year, another Hainish Cycle book that I liked a lot. It tells a story about a person that lost his memory and walks across post-post-apocalyptic rural and tribal North America to the only city on the continent to figure out what happened to him. Interesting treatise on identity, memory and an quite engaging story of survival.

Never get M1 Mac unless you are ready to replace every Mac in your household. Have my work stuff on 2015 15” MBP and the experience is now completely ruined. It is not that new one is super fast in use (it is), it is just that coming back to old computer makes me sad. This computer was just fine in the morning.

I am person who thinks in lists, processes, check-lists, and templates. I wonder if writing a template for a book review blog post is too much process or just the right amount of it 😅

For me definite end of Christmas proper is when the pizza  🍕 is delivered on the first week day after Christmas. I love Christmas food but there is a reason we only eat it once a year

I am all in on cloud and on serverless and this kind of thing keeps me awake at night. Turns out, one still needs to be aware of the resource usage. It also helps to think about architecture even at the MVP phase We Burnt $72K testing Firebase + Cloud Run and almost went Bankrupt [Part 1] | Milkie Way

That said, I wish both AWS and Google Cloud came with more predictable pricing models and faster circuit breakers when something spins out of control

Very anxiously waiting for my new M1 Macbook Pro that is scheduled to arrive today.

Gearing up for winter - getting merino wool under pants and shirt and winter boots with studs against ice and snow. Will be ready for everything winter will throw at us.

Current snow conditions: almost

What would be a minimal app with terminal shortcuts to play mp3s on a Mac? Default music client takes forever to launch on (Intel) Mac and then goes on to do something else as soon as mp3 is finished playing. My usual flow is:

1. Use terminal to reach a destination
2. Type open song.mp3
3. wait
4. confusion

I’d like to remove the wait and confusion parts from my workflow

Started reading: To Sell Is Human by Daniel H. Pink 📚

My daughter has a very cool office corner.

The shortest day of the year made even shorter by a grey sky

I find iPhone Pro night mode fascinating even if results are perhaps a little too algorithm-y. Amazing amount of detail I missed with my eyes

Apple TV has a Mariah Carey’s Christmas Special. This. This is awesome.

Completed: Planet Of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

A second story in Hainish cycle. Novella length (a plus in my books) story that paints a world that feels real while tells it in positively fairy tale like fashion. I like how story is just about the right length - a lot of what happens next is left to the imagination of the reader.

Next up, I will read City of Illusions from the same series and then move on to finish the year with a couple of business and tech books on my shelf.

Another reminder that CSS is not that hard and things that were difficult are nowadays easy to achieve: Centering in CSS