Niko Kultalahti

Current RevOps professional, future Cloud Engineer/Developer. A father (of one) and a husband (also of one).

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2025

  • New website, now hosted on micro.blog Alright, DNS has propagated, and my domain is now pointing to micro.blog’s servers where this …

  • 5am train to Helsinki. Time to visit the office once again.

  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket. Pocket was the first read-it-later / bookmarking app I used. Many …

  • After a few years, giving micro.blog another try. Ghost CMS is too heavy for my use case and I don’t …

  • Fixing "server misbehaving" error in Miniflux I’ve been self-hosting Miniflux on my Synology NAS (DS224+) using Docker Compose/Container …

2024

  • Tech ecosystem dilemma Once again, I’m considering if I should entirely change my personal tech stack, both in terms of …

2023

  • My Default Apps Late 2023 There seems to be quite a trend going on with people listing their default apps. Apparently it all …

  • On subscriptions Manuel Moreale wrote about his subscriptions and said: I'd be curious to see other people's …

  • I got the local development setup for Ghost working after some difficulties. I have already made …

  • Meta offering paid subscriptions in EU It seems Meta is starting to offer paid subscriptions for Facebook & Instagram in EU due to …

  • Back on Ghost CMS It took a few weeks after I remembered why I don’t like Wordpress. That being said, I’m back on …

  • Secure setup for Rasperry Pi This post is a documentation I’ve written for myself for securely set up a new Raspberry Pi. …

  • Web-based tools - from the Dock or as browser tabs? I’ve been using Google Workspace tools for several years now mainly due to my work at Gapps. I’ve …

  • Getting Rasperry Pi 4 B to boot from an SSD in USB 3.0 port Finally got it working. There were quite a few issues along the way but the main revelation came …

  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition being on PS+ in last December(?) was a really nice surprise. I’ve …

2022

  • Stadia is (officially) closing down Google announced the yesterday that it’s shutting down Stadia as it is for consumer use. The servers …

  • Tools and technologies are not the solutions - they are merely potential I participated in a sales training session today that was organized for our sales team. During the …

  • Yearly Review 2021 It’s again that time of the year when we should take a look at the rear view mirror and see what …

2021

  • Yearly Review 2020 It’s been odd and challenging year. I been thinking about doing it earlier but I guess this year …

2020

  • Simple enough. Often easier said than done though. “Don’t speak unnecessarily. When speaking, …

  • A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight.

  • We are just a bunch of monkeys on a spinning rock.

2019

  • First “Black Friday”, now “Cyber Monday”. We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to …

  • Bring your parents to work day Last Friday there was an official “bring your child to work” -day in Finland. As we often do at …

  • 30 Day Challenge: No Added Sugar I recently did a 30-day challenge, during which I didn’t eat nor drink anything that contained any …

  • A comforting thought for many. “The gap between our subjective experience and what other peoplepick …

  • First there was Netflix, now there are several. Now it’s happening for game streaming. First there …

  • “Ideas, bread and books are all the same – they’re better when they’re shared. – Seth Godin, Bread …