Jukkasoft

The thing that I thought about today was that will anything less than mind-reading actually bring us the level of usability quality in digital systems which we seek? It probably sounds pretty odd, right? But if you come to think about it, our needs and craving for good quality software and user experience is actually…

Hear me out. I’ll set some context to the story so it won’t blast from out of the blue. Year 2022. I came home from swimming with my children in a place nearby which is really dear to us. Had fun! I was in a particularly good mood and really crunching it. So I decided…

Bandwidth tests to come! This is so good. See Second Fiber building wave in Finland

Took the wonderful project of NCase’s Sight & Light code, and started tweaking it to my own uses. I really love the project, since there is such immediate gratification when just scrolling through the demo page, and reading and grasping how the ray casting is done, step by step. The page shows how the end…

Hands on: Levenshtein distance tells the similarity of two strings. It’s called “edit distance”, because the allowable operations to shift from one string to the other are edits. There are typically 3 operations: insert delete replace (change 1 character) Algorithm developer probably asks one big question: what direction to take? What is the ‘algebra’ in…

Kelpaisiko kaikille helppo elämä? Jouduin oikeasti miettimään tätä, samalla kun tajusin, että saatan elää itse eräänlaisessa väärässä uskossa. Teknologian edistyminen ei välttämättä ”tähtää” – tai ainakaan johda – elämän helpottumiseen, jos mihinkään. Teknologia voi ehkäpä kuitenkin olla (vain) neutraali väline, jonka de facto laajalle leviävät ja tuulta purjeisiinsa saavat käyttötavat määrittävät yhteiskunnan tasolla sen, minne…