Blog posts in category “Opinion”
Rare opinion pieces about topics.
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Apr 9th, 2025Life without advertisements is a great life
Even in modern society, filled to the brim with ads, it’s still possible to reduce the amount of advertising that reaches you to quite a minimum. And let me tell you, it makes life so much better.
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Feb 5th, 2025Look for deep discussions, not a mentorship
I have recently gained new ideas for how to approach finding mentors through deep discussions and long-term perspective.
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Jan 1st, 2025Human curation over algorithmic recommendations
I want to learn and explore new things based on recommendations by other people rather than machines design to maximise engagement.
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Sep 18th, 2024Do one thing well and communicate with others
I want software that does one thing, does it well and interoperates with other software so I can use the ones that provide user experience I enjoy rather than being tied to a single option by a big tech corporate.
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Jul 24th, 2024Art forgery, LLMs and why it feels a bit off
There’s a phenomenon that explains why art forgeries and LLM generated pieces spark negative feelings in us even if the output is as good or even better than one made by a human.
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Jun 30th, 2024Why a personal site rather than social media presence?
Kev Quirk answered the question in his blog and I wanted to add my two cents on top. It’s a topic close to my heart as a website owner and personal web advocate.
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May 25th, 2024A lot of advice is a product of survivorship bias
Chuck Wendig wrote nicely about the survivorship bias in advice writers give.
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May 22nd, 2024Inflexible systems grind my gears
It’s a tragedy when a computer saying no can cause an otherwise doable interaction to not take place.
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Apr 3rd, 2024Sharing podcast episodes is weird
Podcasts operate on top of open RSS but trying to share an episode with a friend is just a weird and bad experience. In a radically better world, it wouldn’t have to be.
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Jan 27th, 2024Please, don’t force me to log in
The current accelerating trend of requiring accounts and logins for everything has to stop.
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Feb 8th, 2023In defense of Quote Toots
Three blog posts in a trenchcoat: I write about quote toots (and why I'd like to have them), the desire to have same features in all apps and the problem of monopoly over content & delivery.
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Jan 19th, 2022Rant: Please stop ruining the search
If I want to watch a Nicolas Cage movie in Netflix on a Friday night, I'd search for Nicolas Cage and expect to get movies starring him as a result. I don't and it sucks.
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Oct 17th, 2013Computer illiterate generations – what should we do?
There has been a lot of discussions during the last years about the IT education of young people. Today, the topic once again popped out in Finnish news when Finnish Broadcasting Company wrote a news piece about the level of IT education in Finnish elementary schools.