Niko Heikkilä

Many software developers who have at least a couple of years of experience in this industry are often barraged with headhunting letters from recruiters…

During our careers, almost everyone has regular one-on-one meetings, sometimes referred to as performance reviews. There we take time to go through our past…

There’s a fascinating law of mathematical theory applicable to agile software development, which helps you deliver features faster without sacrificing quality…

For people doing mainly project work, planning daily tasks is a constant struggle, which can cause severe issues with productivity and mental well-being. As a…

Taking notes is a serious business. While I’m not your typical person journaling everything they see or hear, I write a lot whether it be articles…

Throughout the observed history, human motivation has adapted to demands and economies of the current age. The first establishment, Motivation 1.0, provided us…

This post might come off like a weird spiritual tip for a developer, but bear with me a minute… Santosha A word I came across in yoga that fits very aptly into…

Earlier in the summer of 2020, I made a bold decision to refresh and broaden my career from a product company to software consultancy. I was yearning to work in…

By the 2020s, every software company in existence should be using open-source code as building blocks for their products. Better than that, every company should…

Developers often need to work with something from scratch. Usually, it’s a couple of lines of code whose suitability to real business logic needs to be measured…

Developer experience is a term often thrown loosely without much explanation. You might have come across it in developer communities describing how easy it’s to…

There is no content on the web that is immune to rotting and growing moss. Blog posts start festering with old dead links pointing to nowhere, and images blank…

I often find myself asking whether I’m in the right profession, working as a software developer. It’s a question I’ve answered negatively in the past, but for a…

To developers, the command line is a natural environment for daily work. It makes sense then to customize it to be as helpful as possible. Try opening an…

Recently I ended a long relationship with Twitter, and I’m relieved. For over 10 years I’ve written to a platform for which the experience, safety, and justice…

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…

Writing scripts is a subset of coding we sometimes can’t avoid nor should be afraid of. The standard tool for writing scripts is Bash for UNIX environments and…

Developing and deploying static sites can be managed with a wide variety of techniques. If Docker is already a part of your tooling you can drop your content as…

Recently I began migrating my blog from an old - but not vulnerable - WordPress installation to Gatsby. The migration went well save a brief downtime due to DNS…

Often there are scenarios where our code depends on the current time. Most programming languages handle datetime parsing pretty eloquently but a demand for…

This week I participated in a 2-day training session about pragmatic solutions in Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment. I was there because one of…

Both in my work and personal life, I’ve used a plethora of project management tools but only Trello has stuck. However, even Trello can be useless unless you…

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…

The stabbing spree that took place in Turku, Finland last Friday was indeed a horrific act of terror leaving many a person in shock and wondering about the…

This week I challenged myself to another hopeless, yet interesting, listing project. I decided to take a deep dive into my music library and surface with music…

I’ve played with this service for a while now after I received an invitation to the alpha. Yes, it’s alpha, not even beta. Keeping that in mind Keybase works…