Niko Virtala
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Niko Virtala
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Building better shopping experiences for retail | Principal Engineer at SOK | Randonneur 🚲
What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

2001:
July 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
what have I done? — in the last week an army of german sap bots(?) have started following me? 😅
June 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
there is still a long way to the bottom 🙃
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
it has always bugged me why we always try to automate the things we like instead of the things we don’t — like chores and corporate politics
February 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
iTerm is too much and Warp is too opinionated — ghostty.org in all its simplicity is just perfect!

I even found a way to share the `config` between multiple computers over iCloud!

#ghostty #icloud
December 31, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Q wasn't too helpful today 😥 nothing? — absolutely nothing?
December 12, 2024 at 1:55 PM
December 6, 2024 at 10:55 PM
@lucvandonkersgoed.com, I know you're a huge fan of frontend development 😁 so I have an idea that could make the already awesome aws-news.com even better:

what if we could swipe the news when on mobile?
December 3, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Reskeet a photo someone took of you that you don’t hate
November 19, 2024 at 9:11 PM
account unfollowing works great, but "unlike" leaves around half of the likes there — even after retry
November 16, 2024 at 9:51 AM
time is up 👋
November 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM
I got this lovely mug as a Father's Day gift last week. The Groke and I must have something in common... I guess 😁
November 15, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity just became 50% cheaper. Whatta day to be happy user of this awesome service! aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...
November 14, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I got the medal in the mail today. do you know or guess why?
November 14, 2024 at 5:51 PM
which one this is? — the toggle in settings makes no visible change
November 13, 2024 at 9:21 PM
could we get it to the mobile app too? 🙏
November 2, 2024 at 5:49 PM
This is how I'm doing it
October 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
system says no? 🤔
October 28, 2024 at 8:47 AM
It doesn't have to be against display? Here is my current setup — the MagSafe is there to show the point
October 22, 2024 at 2:08 PM
guess which shoes 👟👟👟 I wear most of the time?

and what on earth is inside all those boxes? 🤔
July 6, 2023 at 3:10 PM
one of my "go-to summer vacation" routines is to clean up my office.

I have never been a list (to-do, bucket, list of any kind) person; regardless, I own a few of these books ... and I'm confident I’m never going to finish or complete it, but it is nice to have dreams and a source for ideas 😁
July 6, 2023 at 3:02 PM