Zhuk Notes

Distance: 21,1km Total time: 01:39:07 Avg pace: 4:38 km/h About 2 years ago in Marbella I got 1:38:28, so this one was less than a minute slower.

Distance: 300km Total time: 09:35:47 Moving avg: 32,9 km/h A beautiful night ride (start at 8 PM).

Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö on julkaissut asetusluonnoksen Liikenne- ja viestintäviraston sähköiseen viestintään liittyvistä suoritteista perittävistä muista maksuista, ja pyytänyt siihen lausuntoja 20.11.2025 mennessä.

It started with a post from Mark Zuckerberg.

Walk down a street in Helsinki and pick a random 7–12-year-old with a smartphone.

I created my Facebook account 17 years ago, in the fall of 2007.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the TV on, and the Finnish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Kuuntelin viime viikolla Psykopodiaa -podcastin jakson “159.

This book was originally published in 1951 by Abraham Joshua Heschel, who was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

29.9.2024 Marbella Half Marathon Total time: 1:38:28 Pace: 4:40/km This was a flat course at the beach of Marbella, Spain, in very moderate 20-25C temperature.

Tämän kisan tarina alkoi jo vuonna 2020, jolloin minun piti osallistua puolimatkan kisaan Grazissa.

URLCache class implements the caching of responses to URL load requests, by mapping NSURLRequest objects to CachedURLResponse objects.

Matthews Owen's book offers an exceptionally well-written analysis of the historical background, starting from the earliest times, even before Kievan Rus, and tracing events up to the present war.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has now become an integral part of our daily lives, companies around the world are rethinking their policies around how and where the knowledge work is done.

Book commentary in my essay about remote work.

Book commentary in my essay about remote work.

(This post is in Finnish since it's a reply to a LinkedIn post in Finnish).

I’ve heard David Goggings name from ultra running circles and watched some of his Youtube videos.

Kirja onnistuu asettamaan viime vuosikymmenen asuntojen hintojen repeämisen laajempaan historialliseen ja poliittiseen kontekstiin erinomaisesti.

Yeonmi sounds like a remarkable young lady - a child, really, who had to endure unimaginable things and take responsibilities of decisions which no child should have to take.

Will Larson wrote a thoughtful post about managing technical quality in a codebase.

There's a new interesting blog/newsletter called The Observer Effect by Sriram Krishnan which has posted two interviews so far: Marc Andreessen and Daniel Ek.

As software engineers, we are used to designing large system architectures by defining the roles and responsibilities of each component.

The idea that Taylorism isn’t the best fit for management in creative fields like software engineering isn’t new in any sense.

What is the most annoying thing you encounter as a professional software engineer?

The book is based on a research of: 23 000 survey responses over 2 000 organizations, including startups, large enterprises, it/software and regulated industries projects including greenfields and legacy code methodologies from waterfall to agile/lean The…

Ötztaler Radmarathon on vuosittain järjestettävä maantiepyöräilytapahtuma, joka täytti tänä vuonna 36 vuotta.

Stage 1: Nice – Pra Loup Cols: Ascros, Cayolle, Pra Loup Dist: 172,5km Asc: 3590m TSS: 376 (BBS est: 379) IF: 0,68 (BBS est: 0,71) Moving time: 7:47:55 (BBS est: 7:31:04) NP: 205W (BBS est: 220 W) Sijoitus: 195 / 290 Viikon ensimmäinen aamuviiden heräämin…

Frankfurtin täydestä matkasta on nyt kulunut viikko.

Geoff Smart and Randy Street run ghSMART, a management consulting company which maintains a database of thousands of business executives and which is then used to analyze different aspects of what makes executives and businesses successful.

The best management-related book I’ve read lately.

Surgeon Atul Gawande offers a fascinating perspective on the use of checklists in medicine, aviation, and structural engineering.