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I imported a NetEase Blog archive I had saved more than ten years ago into my current blog. What started as a simple archive restore turned into a strange little meeting with my high school, college, and early-career self.
After upgrading Codex to the $100/month plan, I was not fully convinced myself. Then I looked through a month of history with it and realized the valuable part was not how much code it wrote, but how many unfinished things it helped me actually land in my projects.
I turned a small semantic word-guessing game into an AI skill that can run directly in the terminal. This piece is about why the format fits LLMs so well, and how I constrained the model into becoming a stable game host.
Why can AI do the work but not finish it? This post explains how to turn a stalling Codex task into a sustainable, resumable workflow.
Over the Easter long weekend, we drove onto a ferry and went to Tallinn with friends. For people living in Finland, it is an easy short trip and a great way to change the scenery with kids.
Before Easter, a simple note in the hallway quietly brought the whole building into a shared tradition. With their “magic wands,” children went door to door offering blessings—and returned with candy and a little more courage.
She brought home a caterpillar from kindergarten, and in just two days, turned it into something real.
In the forests west of Helsinki lies a small place known as Finland’s southernmost reindeer park. Quiet and unassuming, it’s the kind of place where families can slow down on a weekend — feeding reindeer and warming their hands by the fire with a hot drink.
As more websites begin integrating AI, I started wondering: could my blog have an intelligent assistant of its own?
When OpenAI launched Apps in ChatGPT, I was curious to see how it worked. I used the APIs from my own blog to build a ChatGPT App. This post walks through the entire process of building it from scratch, with full code included.
This morning, the light felt a little off. I glanced at the wall clock showing eight, then at my phone—it didn’t match. That’s when I remembered: winter time had begun. The clocks were turned back an hour, but that quiet sense of dissonance felt oddly real.
Autumn has quietly arrived in Finland, leaving the summer scenes of Porvoo behind. As we drove to Tampere, the trees outside transformed, whispering the stories of the changing seasons.