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This is super cool: Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has published a ton of audio effects with a good permissive license.

The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle is Finland's public broadcaster and holds a large audiovisual archive. The archives also contain a great amount of sound effects which have been recorded during the last 70 years using various techniques.

https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/

I've been going to movies a lot lately as I have a bunch of free tickets. The movie theater experience is supposed to be a great experience — that's what you pay for. But watching 15+ minutes of ads and being limited to over expensive snacks (or sneaking in your own) is just not a great experience compared to watching movies at home. https://hamatti.org/posts/im-not-a-big-fan-of-movie-theater-experience/ #blogging #movies

Three weeks ago, I wrote a little shell script to connect and disconnect my headphones because I got annoyed by having to find right icons and items from the menu bar. (https://notes.hamatti.org/technology/recipes/connecting-my-bluetooth-headphones-with-shell-command) I had no idea it would be this impactful. My quality of life using headphones with my laptop when out and about increased significantly. All with less than 100 lines of code.

Last night, 21.02 I got a message in our Magic group: "Does your proxy printer support bulk import from Moxfield?" It didn't. 26 minutes later, it did. And today I've been adding a bunch of fun new features too like changing individual arts and supporting more import formats. It was a fun weekend coding.

A few related extra ideas from me: https://hamatti.org/posts/how-you-can-make-conferences-better/

In 2013, I won a ticket to Strata conference in Santa Clara and a bunch of my data science heroes were speaking there. One of them was Monica Rogati who talked about sleep data they had been gathering. It was a fsntastic talk so I went to chat with her right afterwards. I was so nervous I don't think I got a single coherent word of English out of my mouth. She handled it like a champion though.

@robb@social.lol I'm on the final stretch (~10 pages left) on my current notebook and I can't wait to crack in a new one.

I borrowed this book from library today and I love it. It's a reference book for a ton of different mechanics in board games. It explains the mechanics very well, lists examples of games that use them and give pros, cons and considerations for all of them. It does make a few weird judgements here and there that I found odd but other than those, it's a reference book that I'm planning to add to my bookshelf permanently in the future. #BoardGames #GameDesign #Books

x is for XML parsing I may have mentioned BeautifulSoup a few times in the past but I'm not gonna let a full month of Python posts go by without hyping it once more. https://hamatti.org/posts/x-is-for-xml-parsing-python-a-to-z/ #Python #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

g is for get_or_create Django's get_or_create is great. It lets you search for something in the database and craete it if it didn't exist. It's such a great tool for things like data entry and makes the code nice and easy to read and follow. https://hamatti.org/posts/g-is-for-get-or-create-python-a-to-z/ #Python #Django #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

"I’ll start by playing a Forest." "Sure, it resolves" "I’ll tap the Forest to generate green mana and use it to cast Battle Box keyword reference guide." https://hamatti.org/posts/my-custom-keyword-reference-guide-for-magic-the-gathering-battle-box/ #MagicTheGathering #MTG

Notion API timeouts, GitHub 500s. I think it's time to close the computer and head out to hang out with friends.

@robb@social.lol The day when old notebook fills up and you get to start a new one is a wonderful day.

I wrote a keyword reference guide to my Magic Battle Box and had to make my own logos and icons to keep it above the line. I was bit sad in the beginning but the more I look at this cover, the more I start to like its campy "similar but legally distinctive" style. It's a shame that the WotC's Fan Content Policy doesn't allow using mana symbols. #MagicTheGathering #MTG

Validate your incoming JSON data with Pydantic to make sure it behaves. As a bonus, you can modify the data at the same time to parse it into a format that's most useful to your program. https://hamatti.org/posts/j-is-for-json-validation-python-a-to-z/ #Python #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

u is for uv Most of my uv usage is running independent scripts or REPL sessions with dependencies. I really like that I don't have to create a full project for everything just to get a virtual environment and packages installed. https://hamatti.org/posts/u-is-for-uv/ #Python #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Less than 10 days until August and that means the festival of blogging @Blaugust@gamepad.club is right around the corner. I'm participating in it for the 4th time now and have some exciting plans about daily #Python posts coming up. I wrote about blogging, Blaugust and these writing challenges and why I enjoy participating in them. Spoilers: it's largely the community. https://hamatti.org/posts/on-blogging-blaugust-and-challenging-yourself/ #blogging #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

After reading the excellent Spider-Man: Life Story, I picked up Fantastic Four: Life Story which was unfortunately a disappointment. For Spider-Man, growing up from a teenager to adulthood was a much stronger motif and more interesting setting and Fantastic Four felt just like a regular story of the battle against Galactus. Maybe if I had read it before I heard about Spider-Man, I would have enjoyed it more but I can't ignore the differences now. https://notes.hamatti.org/sources/books/fantastic-four-life-story #Marvel #Comics

In January, I finally made my first zine and Roll the Zine – a board and card game fanzine — was born. Yesterday's panel discussion about zines at #Finncon got me thinking about the hobby so I wrote down some initial thoughts after the first 7 months. https://hamatti.org/posts/thoughts-on-making-zines-after-7-months/ #zine #RollTheZine #blogging #blog #BoardGames

@hejchristian@front-end.social That would be so cool.

@hejchristian@front-end.social Yes! What would your zine be about? I want to read it!

In a good world, this would have a potential to be a good thing: less discs created in the world. However, in the current world, this just means that Sony and/or the game developers have more power to decide that the game you purchased won't be available to you anymore and pull it from your library or make it impossible to re-download. So much of modern gaming won't be available in the future in a way that 90s and early 2000s games are today. It makes me very sad. https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

@michaelharley@infosec.exchange Blogging about blogging is the best blogging! This was a nice read, thanks for sharing your workflow ❤️ And since you asked, here's my flow current flow: https://hamatti.org/posts/how-i-write-and-publish-blog-posts-in-april-2025/

@jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place something like Advance Wars, Wargroove and Into the Breach.

@honzajavorek@mastodonczech.cz And not being able to read a book because it ran out of battery. That's a one I stumble on way too often.

@honzajavorek@mastodonczech.cz Yeah, that's why I moved all my notes to Obsidian to be stored locally and only use Notion as my CMS (but can always write Markdown files by hand if it's down) for my blog. These days, having any kind of dependency on third party services like these is such a huge risk.

@welshtroll@gamepad.club Thanks, I'm so happy they are finding their audience! I have ~20 more to come this month.

@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Dylan is great!

What in the fuck is this 24h clock that came with my phone's recent update. I have never seen anything so horrendeous.

@isd_d@mastodon.social I guess in the TikTok era anything over 30 seconds is an eternity.

E is for environment variables Code is input from developer and data & interactions are input from the user. Environment variables are input from the system that runs the code. You can access them in Python through os.environ and use dotenv to auto-load project specific values. https://hamatti.org/posts/e-is-for-environment-variables-python-a-to-z/ #Python #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

To celebrate #Finncon, my zine special edition is now out. In this fifth edition of Roll the Zine, I write about the best scifi board games: the universe is a pretty big place and there's room for love, adventure, business, war and comedy in all of that vastness. https://zine.hamatti.org/issues/5/ #RollTheZine #zine #scifi #BoardGames

I'm slow to start my week so often I'm at my best sround Thursday 22 and onwards. It's sometimes bit cumbersome when I start reaching out to people on Thursday night or Friday, right before they start their weekends. I'm happy we have asynchronous means of communication.

@hejchristian@front-end.social You better fix the RSS blunder soon because I have a couple of absolute bangers coming this fall. Will skip September but October will be a big step up from the first 6 in quality and content!

Watching a Youtube video that mentions they also have short form videos but if you want to watch a long video, this is it. IT'S 7 MINUTES. Based on the "long video" comment, I expected like around 2hrs or something.

@damien@layer8.space Imagine you have a Bread model and it has a ForeignKey to a BreadType. Then you have a data input of 100 breads of variying BreadTypes. When you go through the list, you'll want to create new BreadTypes for ones that don't yet exist and reference the ones that already do. You don't have to create separate conditional branches to first check if a BreadType exists or not. Does that help?

@anarodrigues@front-end.social @joel@fosstodon.org

I really should answer cold emails at least to check if there’s a real human behind them 😔

Every now and then I try doing this and 99% of the time they just lead to worse results than ignoring.

People take a polite answer — even if just a "thanks but no" — as a permission to keep pestering.

I wanna keep my hopes with humanity up but if it feels like a duck, it's likely a duck and I'll keep ignoring them.

Haven't gotten one about this though.

@slowclap@social.smplfi.com Tooting my own horn a bit but I love how one of my blogs looks like in Lynx.

@geekysteven@beige.party On my case, that's not a high bar. Shelley flows by that bar with so much margin.

@rpsu@mas.to Cool, thanks for sharing!

I'm relying on the classic school trick: increasing font size reduces the word count requirement.

@slowclap@social.smplfi.com Progressive enhancement should be the baseline for building on the web: the basic things like text and forms should be available on basic HTML and then add graphics and Javascript goodies on top for browsers that do support them.

@HowardGees@mastodonapp.uk The second because I don't expect eating lunch and dinner with the same person on the same day. Would be different thought if I lived with someone and they promised it.

I'm hoping the Fantastic Four: Life Story makes it to the library bus early enough to arrive this Friday.

@earthtoneone@mstdn.social That sounds cool!