Juha-Matti Santala
Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

/now

Last updated: July 28th 2025

So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”.

Life

Summer has continued to be great, albeit bit too hot for my taste. We've been experiencing near 30C heat daily and especially the heat at night has been challenging for sleeping.

I took a 3 week holiday in July and it was nice. Since my holidays came as a surprise, I didn't have anything planned and for money saving reasons, I ended up not doing a weekend staycation that I was thinking about.

Work

I'm currently working as a developer at Reaktor. One of the best things this spring and summer has been being able to use my community and teaching skills in running trainins and planning and organising events.

Communities

Our meetup communities are mainly on summer break until September so July has mostly been chilling out and towards the end, slowly starting to set up fall schedule. With everyone still on holidays, it needs to wait till mid August for the ball to start rolling though.

Tiny joys

UEFA Women's Euro was a wonderful tournament and the tournament finishing with England once again coming from behind and winning the repeat championship was an absolute joy.