15 years in IT, design, and products. Sometimes I tweet about my projects, but mostly a voice from Estonia 🇪🇪 in the context of Baltic and Nordic countries.
Joined April 2012
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25 Feb 2022
Added subtitles.
Translation by @joelreymont and @SandiResistz .
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Feb 22
Looks like I'm not the only one. A project has emerged where Hannes attempts to speak in a way that is understandable to Finns and Estonians.
Super projekti Hannes Vaan, ta yritäb tehä kontenttii mis on selgee 🇫🇮, 🇪🇪 ja kõiki toiste kielsugulaste jaoks:
instagram.com/segasukukiel
3 Nov 2022
This reminds me of an idea I had: to create an open-source project to find matching words in Finnish and Estonian. Then we'd have a dictionary and could maybe even use it as a common language.
App could be Tinder-like where you swipe words left/right if the meaning matches.🙂
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1 Oct 2024
See on naljakas, kuidas mujal maailmas peetakse küpsisetorti millekski ghettoks ja vanglaeluga kursis olevate inimeste kogemuseks. See kook on mu lapsepõlv. Eesti elu. 🙃
insidetime.org/mailbag/priso…
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18 Sep 2024
Watching LOTR's Rings of Power series, it's fun to notice Finnic language influences on Elvish.
Sauron calls himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts. "Anna" means to give in Estonian and Finnish.
Elvish words like terewa & rauta, pronouns like te & ta, etc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnis…
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17 Jul 2024
Ancestry of US Presidents, up to ca 10 generations in the past. Countries not ethnicity.
Notice one from Estonia 🇪🇪: Franklin D. Roosevelt's ancestor Martin Hoffman (1625-1712) was born in what is now Estonia (then Sweden), likely a local Baltic German.
findagrave.com/memorial/8975…
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10 Jun 2024
Posted this map to r/Europe (6.6M users), woke up to over a thousand comments on how bad of an idea online voting is. 😀
I get the skepticism but we've also had it for 19 years already. If it was so easy to rig, we would've voted for Putin by now.
reddit.com/r/europe/comments…
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30 May 2024
Indrek Tarand @indrektarand is doing an AMA today on r/Eesti subreddit.
It's been interesting to grow the community to 86k members and into something where a politician is willing to have a public interview like this.
reddit.com/r/Eesti/comments/…
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20 May 2024
Kalevipoeg Gen Z Estonglish versioon, Eesti redditist, feat. chatGPT 👏
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14 May 2024
Hah, found my name in the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design. 🎉 They have an exhibition on winners of the design awards over the years.
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4 May 2024
Today marks 10 years I've kept the NordicEstonia.com site going. I gather random facts there about Estonia's mutual history shared with nordic countries.
Just so it would all be in one place and easy to find online.
One day I'll redesign it nicer, but it does the job atm.
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4 May 2024
Stuff like how Estonia is Finnic, how it's been longer ruled by Scandinavian countries than Russia and USSR combined, how Danish flag originates from here by legend and our coat of arms came from Denmark, how there were Estonian vikings, yule & semla celebrations, and so on.
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4 May 2024
It came from a need to distance us from Russia, actually. Many people thought of Estonia as Russia-lite, and that work quality matched.
As long as it stands, Russia will have an easier job conquering us, since the world won't panic too much if we've seen as "like Russia" anyway.
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22 Mar 2024
Hah, I just realized the logo I did for UCL's Huntington Disease Center a while ago is still in use – and even appears on walls and presentations. Very cool to see! Honoured to have provided something for the University College London. 🙏
@UCLHD
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19 Feb 2024
Brilliant campaign. Awful Soviet buildings, built during an illegal occupation, displaying a possible attack by our violently expanding neighbor. It's like a layer cake of sh*t, showcasing what it is to live next to Russia. Only the gray weather is something we can't put on them.
19 Feb 2024
Today, shocking billboards appeared in different parts of Tallinn - residential buildings were shown with clear signs of the Russian world - half-destroyed, burnt, and hit by a missile. The same buildings were standing in real life right behind the billboards safe and sound. A campaign aiming to show that the Russian world is a real threat and there should be no illusions about Russia's intentions.
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14 Feb 2024
In 2014 only 4 countries achieved NATO's recommended 2% of GDP spending goal (USA 🇺🇸, Greece 🇬🇷, UK 🇬🇧, and Estonia 🇪🇪).
In 2024 it's looking to be 18 of the 31 members.
tagesschau.de/inland/nato-de…
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13 Feb 2024
About Putin's talk. According to Old East Slavic chronicles, 🇪🇪Estonians were also among the founders of the Rus' state along with Vikings. 🙃
Don't worry tho, we have no interest in making claims on that godforsaken land. :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chud#C…
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1 Feb 2024
January was a great start of 2024 for our lil weight training app Hardy.app
For the first time 4k people joined in one month. Last January we had 3.7k users in total.
Also all-time-high number of workouts and people who worked out.
Those New Year promises! 💪
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1 Feb 2024
Check out the new report on Baltic startup fundraising scene, full of various graphs and insights into local unicorns and unicorns-to-be. 🦄
Design by yours truly. 🫡
1 Feb 2024
🚨 The Baltic Startup Funding Report (H2 2023) is now out! 🚨
The report is a co-creation of @changeventures and FIRSTPICK, and it provides valuable information on the Baltic startup fundraising scene.
changeventures.com/baltic-st…
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13 Jan 2024
Strange to think that Estonia🇪🇪 used to have submarines too before WW2. We've been independent for 30 years but in many ways we're still doing catch up to our potential. Soviets kept us properly nerfed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EML_Le…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EML_Ka…
13 Jan 2024
Sweden is seeking to tighten NATO’s grip in the Baltic Sea with 2 new submarines.
bit.ly/48R9ftf
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10 Jan 2024
Russia doing ethnic cleansing to commit genocide in Ukraine.
Ranking of Russian federal subjects by rate of residents killed in action in Ukraine per 100k residents.
Moscow and St Petersburg at the bottom. Minority ethnicities at the top.
Source: reddit.com/r/europe/comments…
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