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Developers often need to work with something from scratch.

Developer experience is a term often thrown loosely without much explanation.

There is no content on the web that is immune to rotting and growing moss.

I often find myself asking whether I’m in the right profession, working as a software developer.

To developers, the command line is a natural environment for daily work.

Update (20th April 2026): Years later, Mastodon didn’t turn out to be the Twitter replacement I hoped for.

As an open-source maintainer, I have a severe obsession for informative release notes and I cringe every time I see release notes with the dreadful “Bug fixes and minor improvements” line in it.

Writing scripts is a subset of coding we sometimes can’t avoid nor should be afraid of.

Developing and deploying static sites can be managed with a wide variety of techniques.

Recently I began migrating my blog from an old - but not vulnerable - WordPress installation to Gatsby.

Often there are scenarios where our code depends on the current time.

This week I participated in a 2-day training session about pragmatic solutions in Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment.

Both in my work and personal life, I’ve used a plethora of project management tools but only Trello has stuck.

Last month I had the pleasure of achieving my first full year as a professional web developer in a Finnish company centered around online payments. #1 PHP Is Back With a Bang Or depending on your point of view, still great.

This week I challenged myself to another hopeless, yet interesting, listing project.