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Simo Virtanen
@simovirtanen
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Designer & co-founder at Sakeus, a three-person digital design company. Ruby on Rails advocate. Video game hobbyist, synthesizer addict, sci-fi/fantasy reader, and always looking for cool music to listen.
Welcome to tiny ruby #{conf} on the 21st of November 2025!
Tickets are now available and the CFP is open.
Here's me complaining about clients wanting a lot of features delivered for minimum cost
https://simovirtanen.com/2024/11/13/bare-minimum-winging-it/
https://simovirtanen.com/2024/11/13/bare-minimum-winging-it/
Two blog posts within a week! Getting my thesis done opened the floodgate, but I bet now I'm gonna suffer from a writer's block for the rest of the year. :D
At risk of looking like an elitist I wrote a bit about how I feel about UI designers not knowing even HTML/CSS and getting their hands dirty with codebases.
https://simovirtanen.com/2024/11/08/should-we-expect-ui-designers-to-build-their-designs/
It's not a phase, mom! I wrote about my frustration when hearing the words "design phase" uttered by a client. https://simovirtanen.com/design/2024/11/05/design-is-not-a-phase/
Got enough of browsing Twitter. My feed was so full of conspiracy theories and racism that I finally pulled the plug from my and my company's accounts.
Helsinki Ruby BrigadeExciting news: @helsinkiruby can now cover travel expenses for our speakers!
More details: https://rubybrigade.fi/speak/
Exciting news: we now cover travel expenses for speakers coming to Helsinki Ruby Brigade meet-ups. Read all about it on the Ruby Brigade site: https://rubybrigade.fi/speak/
Why #democracy on the Internet fails? Because there's barely any content moderation on the centralised platforms, people end up having the same arguments again and again and we never reach a conclusion. The losing side of an argument can try again, even spread misinformation, until they win the argument. We even have platform holders (Musk) encouraging this behaviour. Then we start all over. We're running in circles and destroying our democracies and mental health in the process.