| 2025-08-06 | Happy Plugs Clip: New article. |
| 2024-09-03 | Installing Microsoft Intune on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: New article. |
| 2023-12-06 | Alesis Turbo Mesh Kit review: Add instructions for macOS and MidiPipe. |
| 2022-08-31 | Of life and love: Add some recent thoughts and discoveries. |
| 2022-02-27 | Learning to ice skate: Add notes about baking new skates. |
I've recently thought a lot about the concept of love and how it relates to life. This is partly because of my past, partly because of how the Finnish society is. A stream of consciousness awaits you in the Off-world colonies - just follow the hyperlink to go down the rabbit hole.
| 2022-08-31 | Add some recent thoughts and discoveries. |
As new motherboards don't have a PCI bus anymore, finding high-quality, low-latency audio devices that work in Linux might be hard. Released in November 2019, the Motu M4 promises class-compliance, low latency and superb sound quality. How does it measure against its specifications in practice? Read the article to find out.
| 2020-12-21 | Add Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and RT audio info; some tidying up. |
| 2020-08-31 | Add note about fixed duplex sound support. |
| 2020-06-06 | Add note about systemd and realtime audio. |
| 2020-04-13 | Add more Linux compatibility tests and notes. |
| 2020-03-31 | Add note about switching the sample rate. |
Keväällä 2019 koin pahan burnoutin pitkäaikaisen työperäisen stressin seurauksena. Halusin jakaa tarinani auttaakseni itseäni toipumisessa ja jakaakseni tietoa muille.
| 2021-12-31 | Lisätty perinteinen loppuvuoden päivitys. |
| 2020-12-31 | Lisätty loppuvuoden toipumispäivitys. |
| 2019-12-31 | Lisätty loppuvuoden tilannepäivitys. |
In spring 2019 I suffered a bad burnout after long-term stress. I wanted to share my story, to help myself recover and spread the knowledge.
| 2021-12-31 | Add traditional end of the year update. |
| 2020-12-31 | Add end of the year recovery update. |
| 2019-12-31 | Add end of the year status update. |
I guess most people tend to resort to something specific when something needs fixing. The most common must be duct tape. I like metal strap, the perforated variety. In this short article I introduce some ways in which metal strap can be used for a lot of things.
I made my indoor plant a soil moisture meter which reports the values to Azure cloud. However, I had some trouble making my D1 mini board to sleep and wake up reliably. Turns out, just calling the deep-sleep function once doesn't do the trick. I had to deep-sleep for several shorter cycles before reporting the measurement. Check out the article for a brief how-to.
| 2019-11-23 | Add power consumption measurements. |
As a kid, I never learned how to skate properly. Due to my wide feet it was super hard for me to find fitting skates. Eventually I just bought some decent ones and, since I don't have any contacts to boot punchers, decided to build a tool to make them more compatible with my feet. In this article I introduce the super simple tool that you can make too.
Ever since Bluez dropped support for Bluetooth audio using ALSA, people have been using PulseAudio to connect audio devices in Linux. However, there's a project called BlueALSA which supports high-quality cutting-edge codecs such as LDAC, and it works with pure ALSA. Read the article to see how to use it.