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• Goblin Mode, or spinning up VMs for feral agents (2026-03-05)
• Let's automate our jobs (2026-02-25)
• Programming is over (2026-02-12)
• Yearnote 2025 (2026-01-07)
• PyCon Finland 2025 (2025-10-19)
• PyCon UK 2025 (2025-09-29)
• uv and maturin (2025-09-12)
• Compressing floating point data with Gorilla (2025-06-16)
• FP compression family tree (2025-05-07)
• Storing timeseries data (2025-03-28)
• Leader election with S3 and If-Match (2025-02-25)
• New winds (2025-01-31)
• Yearnote 2024 (2025-01-08)
• Weeknote 19: ADRs record decisions (2024-12-22)
• Weeknote 18: Code comments (2024-12-15)
• Weeknote 17: Caching Docker builds on GitHub Actions (2024-12-08)
• Weeknote 16: Late code review (2024-12-01)
• Weeknote 15: Technology radar (2024-11-24)
• Weeknote 14: Throwing it away (2024-11-17)
• Weeknote 13: Deterministic Simulation Testing (2024-11-10)
• Weeknote 12: In the weeds (2024-11-04)
• Weeknote 11: Weeknotes (2024-10-27)
• Weeknote 10: Prototyping (2024-10-21)
• Weeknote 9: EuroRust 2024 (2024-10-13)
• Weeknote 8: Feedback (2024-10-06)
• Weeknote 7: Memray + k8s (2024-09-30)
• Weeknote 6: Heart of Clojure (2024-09-25)
• Weeknote 5: Broken Input (2024-09-15)
• Weeknote 4: Debugging Tools (2024-09-08)
• Weeknote 3: Object Storage (2024-09-02)
• Weeknote 2: Developer Experience (2024-08-25)
• Weeknote 1: Schema Evolution (2024-08-18)
• paketoi 0.1 (2024-04-23)
• A toolbox of methods (2024-03-26)
• GitHub's PRs could be better (2024-02-29)
• Creating AWS Lambda zip files with Pex (2024-01-31)
• Yearnote 2023 (2024-01-08)
• Do not use requirements.txt (2023-10-31)
• Recipes for updating poetry.lock (2023-05-25)
• Branchless git workflows (2023-05-15)
• Yearnote 2022 (2023-01-21)
• SQL, Clojure, and editor support (2022-06-20)
• What does `identical?` do? (2022-06-15)
• Tasks of a schema migration tool (2022-05-16)
• Schema migrations and avoiding downtime (2022-05-02)
• Clojure and what could've been (2022-04-06)
• Yearnote 2021 (2022-01-16)
• Split tokens in Clojure (2021-09-04)
• Enjoying the silence (2021-03-30)
• clojure.xml and untrusted input (2021-03-13)
• clojure.spec and untrusted input (2021-03-06)
• Why take notes, anyway? (2021-02-27)
• The goal is to deliver working software (2021-02-20)
• Winter-posting (2021-02-13)
• When to not use code review (2021-02-06)
• Writing is a core skill for developers (2021-01-30)
• Clojure project automation tool of my dreams (2021-01-14)
• Yearnote 2020 (2021-01-06)
• NixOS impressions (2020-12-20)
• Code review in context (2020-12-13)
• New shell prompt with Starship (2020-12-06)
• Early impressions on morning pages (2020-11-29)
• Code review is for collaboration (2020-11-22)
• Why bother with Integrant? (2020-11-15)
• Two albums of sad music (2020-11-08)
• What are DIDs? (2020-11-01)
• Caching HTTP requests in Clojure (2020-10-25)
• Generating random tokens in Clojure (2020-10-18)
• clj-branca: lessons learned (2020-10-11)
• Branca and yak shaving (2020-10-04)
• Solving the diamond problem with shading (2020-09-27)
• Local memoized recursive functions (2020-09-20)
• No blog this week (2020-09-13)
• Is this art? (2020-09-06)
• JWT and its alternatives (2020-08-30)
• Looking good in a suit (2020-08-23)
• The minimalist program (2020-08-16)
• Two things that make logging out hard (2020-08-08)
• Summer reading (2020-08-02)
• Signing .jars is worthless (2020-07-26)
• On paddling (2020-07-19)
• Summer vacation (2020-06-14)
• Building software without hiring anyone (2020-06-07)
• Who is going to use the programming language? (2020-05-31)
• Automating spec-tools releases (2020-05-24)
• Have you seen the swan? (2020-05-17)
• Essential features of data specification libraries (2020-05-10)
• Schema, Spec, and Malli (2020-05-03)
• Elegant knowledge transfer (2020-04-26)
• Ricoh GR III, a year later (2020-04-19)
• Put files where they are expected (2020-04-12)
• Video calls are cool but have you tried writing (2020-04-05)
• Freezing deployments is risky (2020-03-29)
• Working from home: initial impressions (2020-03-12)
• Programming is writing (2020-02-25)
• Making decisions without asking your boss (2020-02-19)
• No need for something to say (2020-02-12)
• Logging request IDs in Tornado (2020-02-05)
• Hello again, Python (2020-01-19)
• Joys of a heavy camera (2020-01-12)
• Yearnote 2019 (2020-01-05)
• Standard problems, standard solutions (2019-12-19)
• Just automate syntax formatting (2019-12-12)
• Keeping code review fast (2019-12-05)
• The power of code review (2019-11-28)
• Coercing JSON with malli (2019-11-20)
• Karhunkierros IV (2019-11-14)
• Karhunkierros III (2019-11-07)
• Karhunkierros II (2019-10-31)
• Karhunkierros I (2019-10-24)
• The joys of coverage (2019-10-10)
• The hallway track conference (2019-08-12)
• Interpreting Moriyama (2019-07-24)
• Ricoh GR III - initial impressions (2019-05-26)
• Handbrewing coffee (2019-03-06)
• Revisiting Clojure testing (2019-01-29)
• Yearnote 2018 (2019-01-01)
• How I use tap> (2018-10-18)
• Clojure libraries I recommend (2018-10-14)
• I made a backpack (2018-08-21)
• Fully automated releases (2018-08-11)
• Migrated to Hugo (2018-08-05)
• Why interceptors? (2018-08-03)
• Lead Developer London 2018 (2018-07-05)
• A night in Nuuksio (2018-05-15)
• Edit clipboard contents in Vim (2018-05-07)
• How to write a talk proposal (2018-03-19)
• Name this conversation pattern (2018-01-22)
• Yearnote 2017 (2018-01-06)
• Secure Scuttlebutt: some technical details (2017-12-30)
• A new JSON library appears (2017-12-21)
• Break from blogging (2017-09-14)
• What is first-order logic? (2017-08-28)
• Please publish changelogs (2017-08-21)
• Write more macros (2017-08-14)
• Hiking from Pyhä to Luosto (2017-08-07)
• Summer vacation (2017-07-17)
• Focus on understandble code (2017-07-11)
• What is pair programming like? (2017-07-04)
• Using Beeminder to keep blogging (2017-06-27)
• What are hybrid maps? (2017-06-15)
• ZuriHac 2017 (2017-06-11)
• Commit messages are worthless (2017-06-02)
• On sailing (2017-05-27)
• On JSONfeed (2017-05-20)
• clojure.spec for configuration validation (2017-05-14)
• What is functional analysis? (2017-05-07)
• JUnit output for Clojure tests (2017-04-27)
• prog1 in Clojure (2017-04-20)
• Darkroom update (2017-04-14)
• Keskustalaisuus vaalikoneessa (2017-04-09)
• How I use Anki (2017-04-02)
• Configuring Clojure apps (2017-03-23)
• Thinking about gear (acquisition syndrome) (2017-03-19)
• Ice in black and white (2017-03-12)
• The surprises of photography (2017-03-04)
• Reading highlights from 2016 (2017-02-25)
• Technical tooling for making better software (2017-02-16)
• Running ClojureScript tests with Karma (2017-02-08)
• Clojure test runner of my dreams (2017-01-26)
• Curry On and ZuriHac (2016-07-31)
• Some questions (June 2016) (2016-06-28)
• On feeling guilty about not being good enough (2016-06-21)
• You'll want locally scoped CSS (2016-06-14)
• Why look beyond JavaScript? (2016-06-07)
• What is descriptive set theory? (2016-05-24)
• How I solved the Orbital Challenge (2016-05-17)
• Mamiya RB67 Pro-S (2016-05-10)
• What's the point of dependent types? (2016-05-03)
• We're in early days of software engineering (2016-04-25)
• Finding that lemma: Coq search commands (2016-04-19)
• How to divide by zero? (2016-04-12)
• Take better photos by looking carefully (2016-04-05)
• defaultdicts all the way down (2016-03-29)
• Runtime exceptions in Elm (2016-03-22)
• Multitenant Flask-SQLAlchemy (2016-03-15)
• What is forcing, anyway? (2016-03-08)
• Elementary algebra in Coq: Trivial group (2016-03-01)
• Please give demanding tech talks (2016-02-23)
• Elementary algebra in Coq: Defining a group (2016-02-16)
• What's in a proof? (2016-02-09)
• Getting started with Coq (2016-02-02)
• Helsinki Haskell User Group (2016-01-26)
• On Infinite Jest (2016-01-19)
• The bare minimum to know about RELAX NG (2016-01-12)
• Yearnote 2015 (2015-12-27)
• Math is hard, let's go blogging (2015-12-23)
• Code review requires trust (2015-12-16)
• Color film update (2015-12-08)
• Python is not good enough (2015-12-02)
• Printers now work (2015-11-25)
• Spinning while sleeping (2015-11-18)
• Joylent mini-review (2015-11-11)
• Dabbling in film photography (2015-11-04)
• Webpacking a project (2015-10-28)
• Exercising is like eating (2015-10-21)
• Moral obligations of ad blocking (2015-10-09)
• Commandments for code review (2015-09-07)
• Some questions I can't answer (2015-09-06)
• Everyday carry (August 2015) (2015-08-30)
• Copenhagen highlights (2015-08-18)
• Shell pro-tip: create weekly working directories (2015-08-10)
• Wash your smelly travel towel with vinegar (2015-08-02)
• FRP and self-adjusting computation (2015-07-25)
• Running is great for lazy people (2015-07-20)
• The Moat of Scrumbut (2015-07-13)
• Speech as art (2015-07-06)
• A Mind for Numbers (2015-06-29)
• Spend some time away from computers (2015-06-22)
• ROS: Good, bad and ugly (2015-06-15)
• The Law of Partial Test Coverage (2015-06-08)
• Good math exercises build trust (2015-06-01)
• Quickly jumping between git branches (2015-05-23)
• Emacs: Get the path for current buffer from command-line (2015-05-17)
• Birds and context-free grammars (2015-04-27)
• You should take lecture notes with pen and paper (2015-04-21)
• Tornien taisto is coming soon (2015-04-14)
• New theorem prover: Lean (2015-04-07)
• The value of MOOCs is not in the videos (2015-03-31)
• Are quantum computers faster than classical computers? (2015-03-21)
• This Week in Finnish Politics (2015-03-14)
• Types of JavaScript (2015-01-31)
• Setting up Coq, Ssreflect and Proof General on OS X (2015-01-17)
• Yearnote 2014 (2015-01-05)
• Ambronite mini-review (2014-12-17)
• Going to write a bachelor's thesis (2014-12-16)
• Guts of the Golden Pig (2014-11-29)
• Event notes: ClojuTRE 2014 (2014-11-26)
• A photo essay: Haronmäki (2014-11-17)
• Customizing Nix packages (2014-11-07)
• Did taking photos teach me anything? (2014-10-23)
• Four scientific ways to hack your learning (2014-10-21)
• NP and non-deterministic Turing machines (2014-10-09)
• Why does everything fall apart so quickly? (2014-10-06)
• Practicing photography (2014-09-27)
• Houkutteleva tutkijanura (2014-09-26)
• In praise of Hiccup (2014-09-25)
• Is being normal anti-establishment? (2014-09-12)
• Electromagnetic Field 2014 (2014-09-07)
• Math is programming (2014-08-05)
• When is static typing worthwhile? (2014-06-24)
• Hard things in software engineering (2014-05-04)
• Linux problems, April 2014 (2014-04-06)
• Baudrillard on Jogging (2014-04-05)
• Renaming files with zmv (2014-03-09)
• Weak views, strongly held (2014-03-01)
• Flappy Sine (2014-02-15)
• nix-docker and docker volumes (2014-02-03)
• Baana, Helsinki (2014-01-28)
• Compiling assembler files with avr-gcc without C runtime (2014-01-27)
• People Never Change (2014-01-03)
• Peruna, a horse and a medicine (2013-11-25)
• Mental Attitude of the Grid (2013-11-18)
• Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (2013-11-16)
• ferret.gif (2013-08-23)
• Why do you write commit messages? (2013-08-20)
• Setting up nginx for static content with Pallet (2013-08-18)
• Tomaatti-Sota (2013-08-14)