Sometimes it’s the small details that matter 🔗
I like browsers because through extensions and bookmarklets, they let me customise my experience. I don’t often use Youtube Music on my desktop [...]
Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.
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Guide VS Code to recognising PEP 723 dependencies 🔗
PEP 723’s inline script dependencies and uv’s adoption of them, I’ve been writing more and more of them in Python. It allows me finally to have [...]
The web is more than just information 🔗
Rachel Lee Nabors gave a wonderful talk in Future Frontend about the death of the browser and second, I noticed this letter to Arc users by Th [...]
Starting my video projector with Python and Playwright 🔗
I can’t exactly remember anymore what led me to the discovery, but last weekend I found out that my almost decade old Epson EH-TW650 video projector [...]
Debug like a champion (via flaky.build) 🔗
I wrote a guest post about debugging in Onni's blog at flaky.build. In it, I share five tips for becoming better at debugging software problems. Read [...]
A fish in a pond 🔗
a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond more times than I can count. Especially in business, it’s often framed in a way that it’ [...]
Better communication skills can lead to better career opportunities 🔗
Recently, I’ve been touring meetups to talk about why developers benefit from writing a blog. One of the benefits I talk about in that is that writi [...]
I like my green 3D printed webcam cover 🔗
It eliminates a lengthy troubleshooting step. Let me explain. If I open my webcam in a video call and the screen is black, I probably start deb [...]
As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook 🔗
After I signed my contract to join my new job a month ago, I was so excited. Not only that I would join the company but also because I got to buy a [...]
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, what next? 🔗
Mozilla shutting down Pocket. I’ve been a happy user since before it was called Pocket, before it was purchased by Mozilla. I even had a lifetime pr [...]
When a community graduates 🔗
IndieWeb Carnival, Chris invited us to write about small web communities: I’d love to hear your experiences of them, why and how you participat [...]
Notifications about (almost) anything with ntfy.sh 🔗
ntfy.sh has been on my backlog for a while and this week Alistair Shepherd’s Device notifications via HTTP with ntfy popped into my RSS reader w [...]
Providing next event as API with Eleventy’s Global Data Files and Netlify Functions 🔗
how I use Eleventy’s global data files to build community websites. For a while now, I’ve wanted to provide a programmatic way to read the next even [...]
Writing notes helps you remember — and forget 🔗
Despite the em dash in the title, this blog post is 100% human powered. Apparently these days the use of em dashes is an indication that something [...]
Hard to spot auto-format error with Prettier, Netlify redirects and Mastodon webfinger 🔗
set up a redirect so that people could refer to me in Fediverse with my domain (@hamatti@hamatti.org) even though I didn’t have such instance. This [...]
Systems of the dead stagnate 🔗
Please Start from Textbook in which he argues that before people (or teams) start to adjust systems to their own need, they should first follow th [...]
From Juhis with Love #004: Small and personal web 🔗
In April issue of From Juhis with Love, I share updates of my projects and talk about the web beyond corporate-run social media platforms and reco [...]
Improvised lightning talk extravaganza 🔗
Turku ❤️ Frontend and Aurajoki Overflow — organised the most ambitious anime crossover event of the year with our partner Solita. One of [...]
How I write and publish blog posts in April 2025 🔗
a note in my digital notes system. Today, I use Obsidian for my notes because it’s local-first (no dependency to a 3rd party service), Markdown-ba [...]
Resisting the urge to rewrite the website 🔗
Do you have your own website or blog? Or maybe you have considered starting one but went down the rabbit whole of building your own tooling and givi [...]
Life without advertisements is a great life 🔗
What if ads didn’t exist? What If We Made Advertising Illegal?, Kōdō Simone writes about an idea of making advertising illegal. It’s a thought-provo [...]
Review: Last One Laughing UK 🔗
That’s called Last One Laughing UK and the first series just finished. [...]
Shared RSS subscriptions for a software team 🔗
Here’s a though experiment that popped into my head the other day on my way home from a rather productive pub coding session. If you’re in a team th [...]
From Juhis with Love #003: To the galaxies beyond 🔗
In March issue of From Juhis with Love, I share updates of my projects and some really solid scifi recommendations that I've enjoyed recently. [...]
I want to like Trainers’ Pokemon but I can’t 🔗
Journey Together, Pokemon brought back Trainers’ Pokemon. It’s been roughly 25 years since we last saw them and people have been hyped about them. [...]
“Shrink designing” board games 🔗
What and why? shrink design is that I enjoy taking existing board games that often come in big boxes and look into what I can do (or what others h [...]
Track software versions for technical blog posts 🔗
I talk about blogging for developers, a recurring question is how to deal with code example rot. Programming languages, APIs and libraries evolve al [...]
UX of home-cooked software 🔗
home-cooked software. If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to non-commercial software that’s built to solve the problem of the developer [...]
view-source explorers welcome 🔗
wrote about her path in learning parts of web development through reading websites’ sources through the browser and seeing how others have built t [...]
Redesign and rewrite of playtest printer 🔗
Years ago, when the pandemic was boring me out of my mind, I created a small one-page web app as part of my website. It allowed dragging images from [...]