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Kari Silvennoinen

A web log

  1. The Metaverse Can Not Happen

    Fortunately, the Metaverse boom seems to have mostly blown over by now, entirely enclipsed by the AI one. However, in the last five years, metaverse seemed to ride the hype cycle with cryptocurrencies, VR, NFTs, and Fornite and Roblox. The latter were definitely the technology triggers for the hype, the building blocks for the promised evolution of virtual worlds.

  2. Revisiting the Million Ways to Markup Your Content

    Ten years ago, I wrote about The Million Ways to Markup Your Content, where I covered the then main ways (HTML5, Microdata, Microformats, OGP, JSON-LD) to mark up one’s content for the semantic web, or more accurately for the search engines. When I last year moved my blog to Eleventy, I wrote my layouts from scratch and left most of the semantic markup to the floor for a couple of reasons.

  3. Verokuitti ja sen laskentaperusteet

    Vuonna 2011 tein yhdessä parin kaverin kanssa harrasteprojektina Verokuitti-palvelun, jossa käyttäjä kykeni tutkimaan valtion budjettia syöttämällä vuositulonsa ja sivu visualisoi valtion menojen osuuden tälle käyttäjälle kauppakuitin muodossa.

  4. The Updated Weblog Is Go

    Welcome to the 5th edition of this web log! For the past decade or so, this website was built with Jekyll. However, in the past few years my hodge podge of an asset pipeline built on Gulp meant that publishing anything started to become very difficult.

  5. 24XX SRD in Finnish

    Last year I translated DURF, a rules-light dungeon-fantasy tabletop role-playing game to Finnish. This was made possible by the permissive Creative Commons license on the game. Now I found some time to translate the System Reference Document (SRD) of micro RPG sci-fi series 2400 as well. You can find the translation on Itch.

70 more posts can be found in the archive.