Blog posts in category “Blaugust”
Blaugust is an annual blogging festival that runs in August.
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Aug 31st, 2023Blaugust 2023: Lessons Learned
It’s August 31st. I’ve published a blog post on each day of the month and now it’s time to reflect on what I’ve learned throughout this experiment.
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Aug 30th, 2023Use pangrams to avoid mistakes in conference badge prints
If you have a name that is not just ASCII letters and you’ve participated in an event abroad, it’s likely you’ve had your name messed up in the badge. Organizers can avoid that with pangrams
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Aug 29th, 2023My First 100K
My blog got over 100 000 views in the last 30 day window for the first time ever.
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Aug 28th, 2023Custom cookie consent for video embeds
Occasionally I want to embed Youtube videos or social media posts on my blog but wanted a clean and straight-forward way to deal with cookie consent. So I built my first version for Youtube embeds.
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Aug 27th, 2023Compressing overlapping strings in Python
I developed a solution to a overlapping string puzzle with Python using Test-Driven Development and in this blog post, I share my thinking and development process.
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Aug 26th, 2023Where do my links live?
Chris wrote last week about his link saving schemes and since I’ve talked about this topic surprisingly lot recently with people, I decided to share my approach as well.
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Aug 25th, 20236 months of recovery, how is life?
It’s been about six months since I last wrote about how things are going. Time for an update.
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Aug 24th, 2023Building Dark Mode for hamatti.org
It’s finally time to make people who can’t stand light themes happy when they visit my page by building the dark mode.
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Aug 23rd, 2023Let’s talk about Steam Deck
I’ve now had Steam Deck for nearly a year and little by little I’ve gotten more comfortable with it and have opened up new avenues within the system.
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Aug 22nd, 2023Website rewrite and switching to Notion as CMS
This website served me well for almost 5 years with minor improvements, tweaks and hacks. Now, it was time for a total rewrite and upgrading my stack and tools.
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Aug 21st, 2023Stardew Valley Mods I use
Stardew Valley is one of my all-time favorite games and I have spent so many hours building farms and making friends. These days, I’ve added so many great mods that extend the playability and story of the game and wanted to share them with you.
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Aug 20th, 2023Youtubers I watch
I love Youtube and especially its many great indie creators. Since Youtube’s algorithms affect so heavily what everyone sees, I wanted to share some of my favorites so you could maybe find new channels to follow.
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Aug 19th, 2023Bloggers I read: Saturday
I read a lot of tech blogs to learn new things and stay up to date with my industry. This week I’m sharing a few of them so you can too!
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Aug 18th, 2023Bloggers I read: Friday
I read a lot of tech blogs to learn new things and stay up to date with my industry. This week I’m sharing a few of them so you can too!
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Aug 17th, 2023Bloggers I read: Thursday
I read a lot of tech blogs to learn new things and stay up to date with my industry. This week I’m sharing a few of them so you can too!
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Aug 16th, 2023Bloggers I read: Wednesday
I read a lot of tech blogs to learn new things and stay up to date with my industry. This week I’m sharing a few of them so you can too!
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Aug 15th, 2023Bloggers I read: Tuesday
I read a lot of tech blogs to learn new things and stay up to date with my industry. This week I’m sharing a few of them so you can too!
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Aug 14th, 2023Pokemon tools updated for Obisidian Flames
With the newest Pokemon TCG set Obsidian Flames being released last Friday, I’ve updated my tools to support the new set
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Aug 13th, 2023Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a BBC radio show where people share 8 songs, a book and a luxury item they'd take with them on a desert island. Here are my picks!
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Aug 12th, 2023Future Frontend 2023 Recap
In June, we organized Future Frontend conference in Helsinki with a couple of workshop days followed by two great conference days full of amazing talks. Here's my recap and talk recommendations from the bunch.
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Aug 11th, 2023Projects I'm proud of: Teaching programming
This week in Blaugust is themed 'Introduce yourself' and each day, I'll share a project story that I'm particularly proud of. For Friday, my story is an overarching story of a decade of teaching programming.
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Aug 10th, 2023Projects I'm proud of: Potluck
This week in Blaugust is themed 'Introduce yourself' and each day, I'll share a project story that I'm particularly proud of. One of those is Potluck, my latest tabletop design project.
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Aug 9th, 2023Projects I'm proud of: Newsletters
This week in Blaugust is themed 'Introduce yourself' and each day, I'll share a project story that I'm particularly proud of. Today is two-for-one special as I share my work with Dev Breakfast and Syntax Error newsletters.
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Aug 8th, 2023Projects I'm proud of: Turku ❤️ Frontend
This week in Blaugust is themed 'Introduce yourself' and each day, I'll share a project story that I'm particularly proud of. Today, I want to tell you about Turku <3 Frontend.
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Aug 7th, 2023Projects I'm proud of: Boost Turku & Startup Journey
This week in Blaugust is themed 'Introduce yourself' and each day, I'll share a project story that I'm particularly proud of. Today, I'm starting with my journey at Boost Turku.
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Aug 6th, 2023Tools don't matter - until they do
When starting blogging or coding, it can be overwhelming to choose the right tools. In the beginning, spend your time and energy on doing and learning, not thinking about and tinkering with your tools.
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Aug 5th, 2023What makes a blog post a blog post?
I have a very powerful inner critic when it comes to my own blog and what kind of posts I write. But I don't have that same filter when reading other people's post. I love the variety. Which makes me think: what does make a blog post and is there some criteria to fill?
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Aug 4th, 2023Where to publish your blog?
A question every blogger has to go through at the beginning is where to publish their blog. I'll give you a few options that will get you blogging in no time so you can focus on writing.
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Aug 3rd, 2023Build an idea bank and never run out of blog ideas
Often I get enough ideas throughout a week for my weekly blog posts. But sometimes I don't because I'm too busy or in a non-creative mood. That's why I have an idea bank that grows thoughts into ideas ready to be written into blog posts.
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Aug 2nd, 2023A bunch more of small game reviews: Dredge, Dishonored, Farm Keeper
I've recently been playing horror fishing simulator Dredge, magical first-person assassin stealth adventure Dishonored and tile-laying farming puzzler Farm Keeper.
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Aug 1st, 2023Blaugust 2023, here we come
Blaugust is a month-long celebration of blogging and I'm participating for the first time. I'm hoping to find new inspiration, write more, find new blogs to follow and to learn from fellow bloggers in the community. Join me on my journey through Blaugust.