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Coding and living in Finland.

In 2023, my family and I moved to Finland. It has been a journey into the unknown—full of surprises, challenges, and stories worth remembering. This blog is where I continue to write code, document life, and share that journey.

Life

116 articles

Finland life, family, migration, and the small changes that happen in daily life.

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LatestAug 14, 2026

Driving Across the Baltic Sea with Two Kids

With our six-year-old and one-year-old daughters, we drove onto a ferry in Helsinki and continued through Estonia to Latvia. We covered about 1,000 kilometres in seven days and ran into no major problems. The two people we happened to meet along the way are what I still remember most clearly.

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May 24, 2026

At the Kalasatama Fire Scene, A Few Moments I Saw

May 8, 2026

I Brought Back My Long-Buried NetEase Blog Archive and Met Myself from More Than Ten Years Ago

Apr 6, 2026

We Went to Tallinn Again Over the Easter Long Weekend

Apr 1, 2026

That Day Phoebe Learned a Finnish Spell — and Came Home with Candy

Mar 24, 2026

My daughter brought home a caterpillar from kindergarten — and ended up crying over it

Dec 20, 2025

West of Helsinki, There Is Finland’s Southernmost Reindeer Park

Technology

76 articles

AI, engineering practice, tools, and things I am actually using or building.

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LatestMay 5, 2026

Codex at $100/Month: How I Used It as a Software Engineer Over the Past Month

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.

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Apr 22, 2026

I Turned a Word-Guessing Game into an AI Skill

Apr 19, 2026

When Codex Can Do the Work but Can’t Finish It: Turning a Stalling Task into a Resumable Workflow

Dec 4, 2025

How to Build an AI Agent for Your Blog: Next.js, Cloudflare & AI SDK Guide

Nov 23, 2025

How to Build a ChatGPT App From Scratch: MCP Integration, Custom Widgets, and Real API Examples

Oct 3, 2025

Hitting the Pitfall of Node.js Fetch Blocked Port by Mistake: Why Does Fetch Not Work While the HTTP Module Works Fine?

May 23, 2025