| 2025-12-22 | I was in a toxic relationship: New article. |
| 2025-12-06 | Keychron M6 (1K, PixArt 3311) review: New article. |
| 2025-08-27 | Rant: loudness war, style over functionality, etc.: Add note about Dynamic Range DB website. |
| 2025-08-06 | Happy Plugs Clip: New article. |
| 2024-09-03 | Installing Microsoft Intune on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: New article. |
A couple of years ago I bought ice skates and made a tool to make them more compatible with my feet. Now it was time to actually finally put the skates to good use. My knowledge about ice skating and fitting skates has reached epic proportions. Check out my newbie tips from the article and get adviced and encouraged!
| 2022-02-27 | Add notes about baking new skates. |
If some of your favourite songs happen to be originally tracker music, you must have wondered what would be the best way to convert them into bitstream format. I did an empirical study about it. Read on if you, too, sometimes bang your head to a power plant techno.
| 2020-05-11 | Add case study: Unreal Tournament soundtrack. |
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. |