K is for keyword arguments - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.
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J is for JSON validation - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
I is for immutable - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
HTML Day and the value of practicing the fundamentals 🔗
HTML Day. (Or more accurately, many people around the world did. I tried to put together an event for our local community but failed to garn [...]
H is for htmx - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
G is for get_or_create - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
My custom keyword reference guide for Magic the Gathering Battle Box 🔗
I’ll start by playing a Forest. Sure, it resolves. I’ll tap the Forest to generate green mana and use it to cast Battle Box keyword referenc [...]
F is for f-strings - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
E is for environment variables - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
D is for dictionaries - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
C is for command line interfaces - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
B is for batteries included - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
A is for assert - Python A to Z 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
Python A to Z - Blaugust 2026 introduction 🔗
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match [...]
In the era of AI slop, human curation is even more important 🔗
my growing desire for human curation. In that post, I mainly focused on contrasting human curation with recommendation algorithms that had overtaken [...]
Not seeking growth is a perfectly valid strategy 🔗
made a comment (emphasis mine): I like this post from Ian Coldwater. Slagging off users isn't a growth strategy. Now, you may not want grow [...]
Chats and forums 🔗
This summer, I was invited to join a new community for people who write and was very happy to join. I was part of the “original group” if that makes [...]
On blogging, Blaugust and challenging yourself 🔗
on blogging Fran eloquently puts it: Putting your words on paper, even if digitally, forces you to deal with the core of the topic at hand. [...]
A lovely dialogue about taking notes from See How They Run 🔗
See How They Run and there was one scene that specifically made me giggle a bit as a notes geek. In the scene, Inspector Stoppard (on left, p [...]
My first Finncon — Turku, 2026 🔗
Last weekend I attended my first Finncon. I haven’t been part of the fancon scene but I’ve been hanging around people who have enough to know th [...]
Thoughts on making zines after 7 months 🔗
Last weekend, I took part in a panel discussion about making zines with Tero, H-P and Jukka at this year’s Finncon. We had a wonderful 45 mi [...]
Improve Finder’s QuickLook with plugins 🔗
Quick Look that allows you to quickly preview a file without opening it. However, on default it supports a rather limited amount of popular file f [...]
Junited 2026 was wonderful 🔗
Junited is a blogging festival created by Robert Birming a couple of years back the first year I took part, sharing 30 posts from across t [...]
House rules are great 🔗
“House Rules Don’t Work For Magic” in which he argues that people should not do house rules. It’s clickbaity because in the video he lists some ho [...]
Goo of consciousness 🔗
It’s so fucking hot. It's all just goo of consciousness today. [...]
If you don’t know what to do, pick up a chair 🔗
Stacking Chairs in Mastodon the other day. “Stacking chairs”, taken literally, is what it sounds like. You know those stackable plastic and met [...]
Unexpected weekend with Pedro Pascal as a father figure 🔗
Saoirse Ronan Appreciation Week, this weekend’s Pedro Pascal as a father figure marathon was wholly accidental. I ended up watching the newes [...]
Writing about it - approach to writer’s block 🔗
What I wrote there, verbatim: writer’s block. I’ve learned one trick to make it flow again: rather than trying to write the blog post, I take m [...]