-kenda-

Here you'll find some info about me, Kenneth "Kenda" Levänen. In Swedish, Finnish, and English. I'm a web developer in Helsinki. On my spare time I organize WordPress meetups or spend time at our summer house in Porvoo.

Me online

• LinkedIn
• Bluesky (personal) + my other accounts:
  • Poliisin tiedotteet (Finnish) and Polisens meddelanden (Swedish) automatically shares all news from Finnish Police fetched from their multiple RSS feeds.
  • Nyheter på svenska i Finland automatically shares all news in Swedish retrieved from Yle and Hufvudstadsbladet RSS feeds.
  • Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto automatically shares all decisions, news, and blog articles by the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
• Mastodon
• Threads
• Pixelfed
• Instagram
• Facebook (I accept friend request only from people I know IRL)
• X (Twitter)
• Vimeo
• GitHub

If you need to contact me, please do it via any of the above.

Some of my personal projects

• 
  Stentroll (Stone trolls)
  Every now and then I need a break from everyday family life. One activity I tend to do is build trolls out of stones.
• 
  Worms Armageddon: Emsalö
  Worms is a game I played a lot in the 90s - and now again with my kids. I made us a custom map containing many familiar places on the Emsalö island in Porvoo where we have a cottage.
• 
  Mosaic 48×48
  I built brick mosaic paintings of our kids during my Summer vacation in 2021.
• 
  Matalavaroituskyltti (Shallow water warning)
  I made this traffic sign to warn of shallow water to all sauna guests at our summer cottage. Finnish radio station Yle X3M wrote an article about it back in 2016.
• In addition to the 4 mentioned above, I have also done other fun projects. Here's a few (links to Instagram).
  • Lighthouse garden decorations with Ikea lamps.
  • Scarecrow Pelle Spök.
  • Robot-Ragnar of scrap metal.
  • Pirate ship for kids.
  • A basketball garden game.
  • Skating rink in the yard because the sea rarely freezes over.
• 
  KenComix
  My website since 2003 containing my comic strips.
• 
  Timelapse calculator
  I bought a timelapse camera in 2016. It was hard to calculate what settings to use, so I built this tool.
• 
  Tools
  A small collection of tiny tools I've built during my years as a web developer.
  
  Please, support me to create free-to-use tools and open source plugins. Thank you!
• 
  Tekstarimoka.com
  People used to send a lot of SMS messages in 2010 when I built this site. It was very popular for a couple of years (not so much content, but a lot of visitors). The site is now closed, but all the messages are archived on a long single page for your pleasure.
• 
  Svenskfinland pratar finska (SFPF.fi)
  One Friday evening in November 2019 my finno-swedish friend posted a story on Facebook about how she said something in Finnish that could be misinterpreted in a funny way. Two hours later I published this site about us finno-swedes speaking Finnish. The site is now closed, but the few stories I received are archived on a single page for your pleasure.

My Bluesky posts

My Pixelfed posts

kenda
25.1.2025 @ 12:23

Äntligen tid att åka skidor. Trots varmt väder är backarna i helt hyfsat skick. Men jag åker mycket ensam för att tonåringarna inte väntar på mej. #Peuramaa #Hjortlandet

View on pixelfed.social

kenda
15.1.2025 @ 08:08

What kind of content to expect to see on this account? On Instagram I post pictures of things I experience in my own life. I will do the same here. All photos are my own for a few exception. Like this one created by X (Twitter) Grok AI that it generated based on content I've shared on X. Sea, cottage, laptop, QR code, and stone trolls. Feels familiar. But for some reason Grok thinks I'm a woman.

View on pixelfed.social

kenda
14.1.2025 @ 22:40

Testing Pixelfed. I don't know yet if I will continue mostly in Swedish as on Instagram, or if I will post more in Finnish or English. Probably in all 3 languages depending on what I share.

Here's a picture of some stone trolls I like to build during Summer holidays on #Emsalö in #Porvoo. I have built over 70 trolls during a few years. All stones are from our own Summer house beach. And the moss from our yard.

View on pixelfed.social

My Instagram posts

Unfortunately my Instagram content is not updated here anymore because since late 2024 Instagram requires a professional account that is also connected to a public Facebook Page. I will keep my account as personal. Please, see my newest content directly on Instagram.

My Mastodon posts