Along the Edge OST I really loved the video game Along the Edge . It led me through an internal journey I wrote about in this post . I found only a single piece of the soundtrack on a video-sharing site, and listened to it repeatedly. It brings back the mood of …
My Everyday Superpower Rather than inventing a superpower, I'm going to write about something I actually have. It's not super, and I don't think it's rare. I don't know the official term, but for now, let's call it pattern recognition. How it works Detectives, scientists, and plenty of other professions …
Date day Since my old poodle, Saladin, has separation anxiety, it's impossible to leave him alone without causing him extreme stress. It means that my wife and I can go somewhere together only if we take him with us. Which is cute, but: We can have a coffee or a …
Five Curious Habits of My Poodle The offering Most dogs aren't happy if someone stands beside them while they eat. If you are standing next to mine at mealtime, you might get a piece to taste, just like he sometimes gets one from our food. Yes, my poodle spits out …
The Z323 said goodbye It all started last Wednesday. I wanted to listen to some lo-fi music while coding. I turned on my speakers, and nothing happened. I tried turning them off and on again: nothing. I even plugged them into another wall socket, but the LED stayed dark. It …
My very first blog Today's group project opportunity in the Blaugust event is the following writing prompt: I started my very first blog on 7 December 2005, more than 20 years ago. I was a university student back then, full of optimism and energy. I started blogging just days before …
A Library Without Walls My grandfather's library I grew up among books. Both of my parents are avid readers. My sister is a book lover too. When she has time, she posts amazing articles about books and book series on plenty of different topics. It's easy for her: she reads …
Memories Taken by the Heat I've just come back from my morning dog walk. On the streets here, you can smell the nearby forests. The sea is only a couple of kilometers away. Clouds towered over our heads. The cool breeze and the scent of water vapor in the air …
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Bombanana! Yesterday, two of my friends and I played through Bombanana! 's demo . It's a cooperative bomb defuse video game in which you play one of three monkeys. They are a group, just like their three wise relatives in the Japanese tradition: one is deaf, the other is mute, the …
I found Blaugust following a Mastodon tag and took part in it for the first time last year. I enjoyed the sense of community and the many new blogs I visited. I found plenty of interesting posts and thoughts to read. I can't wait to discover new fellow bloggers. Originally …
The fifth grandmother When I was little, I knew that everyone has two grandmothers. I had two: one lived in the same town as my famil,y and one lived in the capital. As I grew older, things got more complicated. It turned out that I had two more. Both …
I baked some pogácsa today. You can read more about my story of this pastry in my post about it.
Replacing Instagram: Eyespace I left Instagram before joining Mastodon two years ago, and I'm not going back. I however wanted to salvage my content from there. I could repost the images on Mastodon or on Pixelfed, but keeping them inside my blog gives me a higher level of control, which …
How to select a mobile OS Perhaps Android was a great idea back in the old days, but since Google transformed it into a spyware platform, Google Android devices are effectively working against their owners. That's why I started to look for alternatives, and perhaps you have the same reason …
2026. May 20 Wednesday I unstuck World Community Grid in my smartphone's BOINC client. The trick was to change its resource share in Boinc Account Manager from "project default" to a certain number. I'm so glad that it's working again. The same doesn't work for Rosetta@Home . This project isn't …
Who knows that you blog? [!info] This post is a response to David 's one Who knows that you blog? It has always felt strange to show what I write to people I know. Most of my readers don't know me in person, and that feels natural. But when the …
How I dash Reading the em dash conununundrum by scribblans and Em dashes by David brought my unusual relationship with these punctuation marks to the surface. Let's start with how my native language typesets dialogues differently from English. They are typed like this: [!quote] Antal Szerb: The Pendragon Legend, translated …
Robot Framework In my dream, I was on a formal reception. Holding a glass of champagne, Mr. Trump walked up to me. He was actually shorter, than he looks in the news. He asked about my work, so I told him a couple of things of Python and the Robot …
Intersecting interests I’m a developer with a degree in philology and linguistics. This combination often surprises people. But for me, both are about crafting and interpreting texts, whether in code or in stories. The Lego detective and playing with configs The software I used most as a child wasn …
Along the Edge It was one of those afternoons when I was too tired to do anything but play something casual. I installed the visual novel, Along the Edge , which I had gotten for free a couple of days earlier. For me, it was definitely awesome yet anything but casual …
My oldest things What do centuries-old stones, a self-winding watch and child's sock have in common? Such time capsules often hide in our cupboards: lost treasures, family heirlooms, old diaries or dry pressed flowers. It is not their monetary value that matters, but the stories they tell. After reading similar …
My Phones Ericsson A2618 This black device was my first mobile phone. I got it in 2001. I remember reading an SMS-based news service on its tiny screen during high school lunch breaks after September 11. It was a bulky but durable device. Once, I remember, I was playing basketball …
Road 96 - My Journey [!warning] Content warning: This post is not about video games but addresses deeply sensitive topics that may be distressing for some. Please proceed only if you feel prepared. The game I rarely buy full-price video games, and before buying anything I always think carefully to avoid …
How to Use Custom Font in JetBrains Terminal It was tantalizing. I have a favourite terminal font: an old IBM VGA variant. I also updated it with Nerd Fonts icons and glyphs. I can use it in Konsole, PyCharm, and WebStorm, but it wasn't selectable as a terminal font for …
Snowfall Last winter, I read an article about how creatively snowfall decorations were used on static websites, and that this tradition has almost completely disappeared since the rise of Web 2.0. I decided that when I build my own static blog, it will definitely be full of snowflakes in …
I'd like to contribute to open source projects, but I don't have enough time to do so regularly for any specific project nowadays. The best I can do is clean up some small abandoned code bases that I find useful. And there's another thing. Lately, I've been thinking a lot …
A new gaming backlog I like playing video games and developing things. And I also like to writing lists to keep track of various things. Like what I played and when. You can keep track of the games you plan to play, the ones you are playing now, and the …
Clean patching When it comes to patching and mocking, Python's built-in libraries are amazing. But if you write a lot of tests you will start to hate patching expressions like this decorator: @patch ( "myapp.mycode.imported_name" ) or this with statement: with patch ( "myapp.mycode.imported_name" ) as mock_imported_name : The problems First …
2025-11-13 Breaking the code After finishing Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis for the first time, we started watching Stargate: Universe . Funny enough, my own job at Nokia began almost exactly like Eli’s did: with a mysterious puzzle from an unknown source. I worked in the government sector back then …
I replaced Linux Mint with KDE Neon. I'll update this post with my experiences. 🤝 KDE and me This is not the first time I have tried KDE. I first did so about 15 years ago. Back then, I tried lots of things, including Windows Vista, Open Solaris and Ubuntu with …
Blaugust ends today, so I think it's time to summarize. I really enjoyed it! First, it reopened the blogosphere for me. I used to follow many blogs before the advent of Facebook. Most of those were abandoned by their authors, who moved to social media. Now, through Mastodon, I've found …
Usernames are something we choose for ourselves. We use them to express ourselves, and sometimes we hide behind them. Some of them are connected to our real name, like a nickname. Others have no connection to us. This is the story behind mine. The first username I used for a …
Shortly about the game I haven't played this game in a long time. I first tried in 2004, perhaps as a demo version from a gaming magazine disc. Later, I bought a second-hand physical copy. I was thrilled, when the HD edition was released on Steam. It's like a space …
This note by Jedda (and later gobino's post ) made me want to share my experiences with friendships, but it took a while, because I was always shy to write about my feelings. I was a cheerful, extroverted kid who made friends easily. But before I turned eight, my school was …
Many games allow gamers to play as knights in shining armor, but only a few let you become more than a simple warrior by allowing you to actually mount a horse and grab a lance. Yet doing this really stirred my imagination, perhaps because of the stories I heard about …
My wife and I spent the last two Saturdays on Vallisaari to visit the Helsinki Biennial . It was amazing! I've never seen an exhibition before that blended with nature so organically before. It clearly shows that human ingenuity can coexist with and complement nature. Many of the exhibited objects were …
TLDR: David's post about encryption made me think, and my opinion is that encryption has missed the mark lately. Your data only makes money when it's used against others or directly against you Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and the hundreds of other vendors listed as ones with legitimate interest …
The game My wife and I enjoy playing some psychological games from time to time. They help us stay in sync by creating a safe space where we can openly and playfully discuss anything including our feelings or each other's strengths and weaknesses. A couple of days ago, I mentioned …
I had an MRI today. It was a big deal for me, even though it was just a routine checkup. There are two reasons for that. I usually calm and relaxed at the doctor's office. I'm also fine with loud noises and confined spaces. But it was the first MR …
Obviously, the design of my page is inspired by nostalgia. Old Windows versions may look obsolete today, but after DOS, they were amazing. I know a lot about their shortcomings and issues, but deep down, I remember how cutting-edge the star and the labyrinth screensavers felt. Whenever I select a …
Today, while listening to Spotify, I suddenly realized that I've been listening to Poets of the Fall for over 20 years. I listen to a lot of music and enjoy many different genres. Classical music, jazz, rock & roll, techno, ambient and many other styles: they all have their place in …
Though I wasn't aware of Blaugust when I started the development of my Blogger Takeout Viewer app, it feels just right that it's finished now. Since writing my very first post, I've always wanted some kind of continuity. Migrating my old posts to a new blog shows where I came …
Video games are (at least partially) simplified models of the reality. They can model anything: sword-fighting with a simple click, personality changes of player and the world's feedback to it, evolution of species, history or cultures, etc. Of course, it is up to the player to understand what are the …
Hi, I'm Dávid (he/him). I develop in python, enjoy walks in the nature with my family and play computer games, board games. I love to learn and solve things. I heard about the Blaugust just recently from Juhis on his blog, hamatti.org . I can't resist the idea of …
I'm working on cutting ties with Google. Although I could download my blogs' content from Google Takeout, that doesn't mean the received material is usable. There was an Atom feed for each blog and an album folder for pictures. For my blog about Python game development, it was easy to …
The Treasure of the Pirate King I just found the short blog I wrote while developing this video board game. That's what got me started learning Python development. I had an idea for a board game and wanted to test it on a large scale to see if it was …
Things I enjoyed about Chimera Squad 👾 Shorter missions and more granular saves - I have less time now than I used to, but I can still play full missions. The shortness can still be balanced out with difficulty. 👾 Less realistic graphical style - I liked the visuals of the previous installments, but …
I use icons that recall the Win XP era, when home users finally got an NT-based Windows version that made both work and gaming more stable than ever before. The overall design was also inspired from Windows 2003 Server Edition. I worked a lot with it. How I dash : Character …