Feed - Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

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 [...]

Chris Ramsey, Taskmaster and No way!? 🔗

IndieWeb Carnival with a theme of No way!?: Has anything ever happened in your life that felt like a movie plot twist? Something that made [...]

Future Frontend 2026 Recap 🔗

Mid-June we organised our 4th annual Future Frontend conference in Dipoli, Espoo, Finland. As the conference series was a continuation of our pr [...]

A sign of a good tool is that you don’t notice it - one year with wallabag 🔗

A year ago in June, 2025, when Mozilla shut down Pocket, I took a look at the alternatives and ended up choosing wallabag. I’ve been using it da [...]

Junited is a celebration of the blogosphere 🔗

In 2024, Robert Birming launched Junited which is a month-long event during which we focus on sharing great things other people have written. I [...]

An entire wiki in a single file? A look at Feather Wiki 🔗

Feather Wiki is a really cool project that I ran into a couple of weeks back. It’s a wiki project that fits the entire wiki, including all the con [...]

IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Roundup of love letters 🔗

Happy June 1st! IndieWeb Carnival where I encouraged bloggers to write a love letter to something they care about or are passionate about. 33 peop [...]

Saoirse Ronan Appreciation Week 🔗

Saoirse Ronan is one of my favourite actors and I decided to have my very own Saiorse Ronan appreciation week, watching six five of her movies. Tw [...]

Happy 10th birthday TurkuSec! 🔗

Today, we celebrated the 10th birthday of a community very dear to my heart, TurkuSec. The chair person of TurkuSec, Ismayil opens the e [...]

Tame your pesky little scripts 🔗

This blog post started its life as a lightning talk that I'm doing today at Aurajoki Overflow's afterwork. As I worked on the talk, I realised I had a [...]

11 more days time to write a love letter - IndieWeb Carnival 🔗

Do you want to see more positive things in the world and the web? I’m hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival and I’m inviting anyone with a blog [...]

Even the dogs have started to notice 🔗

I tooted: I have regained happiness in my mornings, they have started to notice this shift. My neighbour’s dog that has been ignoring me for the [...]

A love letter to our library bus 🔗

IndieWeb Carnival and I invited everyone with a blog to write a love letter to something or someone they care about. In the turbulent times where [...]

Practicing writing about games 🔗

by other people. I don’t want to find my next game through an algorithm that looks at what I’ve played and what others have played and by making wei [...]

I tell about my blog to anyone willing to listen 🔗

David at Forking Mad asked: Question for the audience: Do you tell people you blog? He talks about his adversity towards sharing their blog [...]

IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Write a love letter 🔗

Hello internet friend! IndieWeb Carnival (again) and in these trying times, I want to bring more kindness and positivity into the web and blogosph [...]

I have been tempted by AYN Thor — but I have AYN Thor at home 🔗

AYN Thor is a clamshell Android gaming device that’s been at the height of the hype cycle for a good while. Everyone in the web who keeps talking [...]

Thumbs up for a good adventure 🔗

IndieWeb Carnival and he has invited us to write about adventures: Close your eyes for a second. What comes to mind when you think of the wor [...]

Small bit of functional graphic design I like 🔗

I watch a lot of sports. Hundreds of hours every year. All major competitions that are broadcast here and some that require finding international so [...]