Juha-Matti Santala

I recently did a refactoring by defining strong types for the API responses my client uses using serde_json. Here's what I learned

Juha-Matti Santala

Since January of 2021, I've has been working on a command-line tool to learn Rust and to get the NHL results to the command-line. This open source project called 235 is supported by Futurice's open source program Spice.

Juha-Matti Santala

When I was a kid, we bought software in cardboard boxes from a computer store. Then I learned web dev and was able to distribute by updating the code on server. With Rust and distributing binaries, I'm somewhere in the middle.

Juha-Matti Santala

This month, I want to talk about something that made me struggle a lot and caused (and still causes) my code writing to slow down considerably - Option and Result types and how I constantly run into issues with them.

Juha-Matti Santala

Last December I finally started learning Rust and last month I built and published my first app with Rust: 235. Learning Rust is my new monthly blog series that is definitely not a tutorial but rather a place for me to keep track of my learning and write about things I've learned along the way.

Juha-Matti Santala

Advent of Code is an annual programming challenge that contains multiple small code puzzles each day leading up to Christmas. For me, they are a way to brush up old tech or learn something new. This year, I'm learning Rust for the first time.

Juha-Matti Santala

Asking for help in technical problems can end up in a lot of back and forth before even getting to the bottom of the issue. Here are some tips how to effectively ask for help.

Juha-Matti Santala

I started a developer newsletter in August 2019 and the past six months has been a great learning experience. I'm sharing what I've learned so you can avoid my mistakes.

Juha-Matti Santala

I'm very passionate about diversity and inclusion in tech because I used to be a bad actor and the best thing that happened in my life was when I was called out on that.

Juha-Matti Santala

Command Line Interface (CLI) can seem ancient way of interacting with computers but it has many great benefits.

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Wanna learn Django and/or React? Join my streams in the fall to start learning.

Juha-Matti Santala

Are you working on improving your existing skills or learning new stuff? Let's talk about that and share good resources.

Juha-Matti Santala

There's a myth in the development community and internet that good code is self-documenting. Mine definitely is.

Juha-Matti Santala

I built and published my first npm package to allow developers build tools for Pokemon TCG players

Juha-Matti Santala

Original Pokemon games are notorious for bugs and exploits but they are not as bug-ridden software as it might look like.

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A talk from Papers We Love Berlin meetup June 19th

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Building software is nice but I'm a big fan of solving my small problems with quick Python scripts

Juha-Matti Santala

While teaching Javascript with or without React or Vue, it's hard to figure out what to do with backend. I built a simple system that can be plugged into any of them to act as backend, storage and API.

Juha-Matti Santala

Default arguments in Javascript cannot be named when calling the function. This post takes a look at different approaches to make the code more readable.

Juha-Matti Santala

You rarely get everything correct on one try. Learning debugging helps you figure out why your program is behaving wrongly and how to fix it.

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I went through the hoops of using custom domain with Netlify and learned about DNS

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Javascript has been evolving amazingly but I feel PHP is lagging behind itself

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McFly is a library that will make your life so much easier when navigating through your bash history

Juha-Matti Santala

If you want to auto-post something from Slack to Twitter, Zapier is your friend.

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My introduction post