Merry Christmas! 🔗
<p> Another year has passed and I’ve retreated to spending the holidays with family. </p> <p> If our paths crossed this year either in p [...]
Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.
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Three Rules, a new podcast by Matt D’Avella 🔗
Matt D'Avella is a great storyteller whose Youtube videos and podcasts I've been following for a long time. This month, he started a new podcast I [...]
Writing is my canary bird 🔗
The Science and Industry Museum Canary bird has since become a term to signify early warning signs. writing is my canary bird. When my mind ge [...]
Increasing the surface area of luck 🔗
Many things in life are based on some level of luck, randomness or happenstance. We can affect those odds to some extent with our life choices but [...]
Struggles with believing in myself 🔗
A new month, a new IndieWeb Carnival topic! invites us to write about belief: The theme is belief What is something you can’t know, but that y [...]
Three is a pattern 🔗
Here’s how it works: First time I do something, I don’t yet know (even if I might have an assumption) if I’ll do it again. Even if I’d have a real [...]
Advent of Code 2024: How to write notes as a developer 🔗
Advent of Code 2024 kicked off yesterday with day 1. Over the past couple of years, I have written educational / blog style commentary on my sol [...]
Syntax Error #17: Debug December 🔗
Syntax Error is a newsletter about debugging for developers, students, hobbyists, curious and duck fans. For a bonus December issue, I share a deb [...]
I like the person I am when I travel 🔗
I had a discussion about travelling with my mom and I told her I like to travel because first, I just enjoy being in trains and second, I have frien [...]
Search your notes first 🔗
Do you sometimes feel like you write your notes but then forget what you have notes about and feel like a notes system is where information goes to [...]
End of year self-reflection with Year Compass 🔗
Regardless of whether you journal daily or have never journaled, I recommend taking a moment from one of your days before the year ends, check out [...]
Impact. 🔗
IndieWeb Carnival, Alexandra invited us to write about impact: i'd love to see your blog posts, webpages, or other media about impact. i think [...]
How I teach Eleventy from scratch 🔗
Eleventy is my favourite static site generator and I’ve been using it for ~6 years now to build almost all of my sites, including this one. I’ve a [...]
The Non-Prime Regex is in the cross-section of two of my interests 🔗
Roughly 4.5 years ago I shared in this blog my interest for recreational mathematics. Yes, I’m that kind of geek. I’ve been keeping up with my hob [...]
Notion is adding an offline mode 🔗
I used to really like Notion. I switched to it years ago from Evernote as it provided really slick UX for maintaining my notes. I was a happy [...]
I built a custom RSS hydrator for better GitHub and Youtube feeds 🔗
media:elements to provide the information. Some readers are able to read those and provide a better experience for these feeds (or so I have heard [...]
My on the go solution with iPad and Raspberry Pi 🔗
iPad + Raspberry Pi TechCraft’s Youtube video on using a Raspberry Pi with iPad and had made notes about it so when I recently got a gift card to loca [...]
How I take work notes as a developer 🔗
I take extensive notes about the world around me for various reasons. I earlier wrote about how notes are tool for thinking, writing, learning and [...]
Multilingualism in a global web 🔗
IndieWeb Carnival with a theme of multilingualism in a global web: On the base of all this, I invite you to write about your experience with [...]
12th anniversary of hamatti.org 🔗
The early days hamatti.org that I purchased a few years into my university studies. It wasn’t my first domain or website but it was different from [...]
Automate filling a form with a bookmarklet 🔗
Web developers often need to fill in forms over and over again as we develop websites and applications that are built around those forms. Not only i [...]
Auto Note Mover and templates make a nice duo in Obsidian 🔗
One of the things I really like it is its automation capabilities. I have solved it with two steps: Templates and Auto Note Mover community plug [...]
Do one thing well and communicate with others 🔗
This blog post is about software design. One-Thing Apps in which he says: I don’t want what they call a Super-app. I want an app designed to so [...]
What to do first with a legacy project? 🔗
Adam Hill asked us in Mastodon: Let's say, hypothetically, you were given sole ownership of a core piece of infrastructure at your $dayjob. It' [...]
Blindspot is a great series that suffers from a pacing issue 🔗
This post is about TV series Blindspot (2015) and contains minor spoilers. If you wanna experience it on your own, go watch all five seasons and c [...]
What’s up with blogging challenges? 🔗
Loren asked a good question in their blog: are blogging challenges worth it? I prefer reading spontaneous posts that are authentic, not thos [...]
Blaugust 2024 retrospective 🔗
Batteries included is a blog series about the Python Standard Library. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of the [...]
Book recommendation: Fluent Python (2nd Edition) 🔗
Batteries included is a blog series about the Python Standard Library. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of the [...]
What’s coming to Python in 3.13 and 3.14 🔗
Batteries included is a blog series about the Python Standard Library. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of the [...]
Couple of great Python podcasts 🔗
Batteries included is a blog series about the Python Standard Library. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of the [...]