Niko Heikkilä articles - 36 total
Bringing Back the Technical Excellence: Rules of Thumb for Effective Software Lifecycle Management
In software, legacy code is a code that runs in production. Don't you love the defeatist attitude...
Being a Good Developer: Tips for an Effective Code Review
Hey! An earlier revision of this post described how to survive the world of pull request workflows....
When to Pair Program and When to Go Solo
Despite all the praise pair programming gets, it is not a silver bullet and we should carefully pract...
Health Check Before Jumping to a New Organization
Many software developers who have at least a couple of years of experience in this industry are often...
You Can't Grow Yourself Unless You Grow Others
During our careers, almost everyone has regular one-on-one meetings, sometimes referred to as perform...
Reducing the Lead Times with Little's Law
There's a fascinating law of mathematical theory applicable to agile software development, which help...
Blocking Time for Tasks with Toggl
For people doing mainly project work, planning daily tasks is a constant struggle, which can cause se...
My 21st Century Note-Taking Workflow
Taking notes is a serious business. While I'm not your typical person journaling everything they see...
Effortless End-To-End Testing with Microsoft Playwright
In my job, I stumble upon projects where there are zero tests, or a project is equipped with a single...
The Unsurprising Truth about What Motivates Developers
Throughout the observed history, human motivation has adapted to demands and economies of the current...
Fight the Inner Impostor with Just-In-Time Learning
This post might come off like a weird spiritual tip for a developer, but bear with me a minute... Sa...
First Four Weeks at Futurice
Earlier in the summer of 2020, I made a bold decision to refresh and broaden my career from a product...
Kickstarting the Open-Source Culture in Your Company
By the 2020s, every software company in existence should be using open-source code as building blocks...
Do You Even Toot? – Mastodon for Developers
It's been almost two years since I started this thread. Are t...
Layman's Guide to Higher-Order Functions
The single most important topic in functional programming is to understand what a function is. Inhere...
Rapid Prototyping with Table-Driven Testing
Developers often need to work with something from scratch. Usually, it's a couple of lines of code wh...
Quoth the Raven, Virtualize Your Stand-Ups
Every agile software development team, whether practising Scrum, Kanban, or something in between as a...
Being a Good Developer: Six Tips for a Painless Code Review
Hey! There's a newer revision of this post that is more accurate depiction of how I think about code...
The Five Ideals of Developer Experience
Developer experience is a term often thrown loosely without much explanation. You might have come acr...
Checking a Web Page for Dead Links (A Golang Command-Line Tutorial)
There is no content on the web that is immune to rotting and growing moss. Blog posts start festering...
Death of the Production Line and Factory Workers Attitude
I often find myself asking whether I'm in the right profession, working as a software developer. It's...
What Is the Best Place for Object Storage in 2019?
Let's say I have a website made with Vue.js as a single-page app. I need to include a component that...
Customizing Your Shell Prompt for Productivity
To developers, the command line is a natural environment for daily work. It makes sense then to custo...
The Definitive List of Things I Don't Know
Lately, I've been pondering about my work and where I want to head with it. Thus, it's only logical t...
Show your own /uses page
Do you ever post a code snippet on Twitter or other social media and immediately get barraged by inqu...
Generating Conventional Changelogs
Spicing up your release notes with awesome changelog power!
Don't Use Bash for Scripting (All the Time)
When the complexity of your script grows it's time to drop the Bash. With modern tools it can be simple, fast, and fun.
Serving Gatsby Site With Docker Multi-Stage Build
In this tutorial, we will build a multi-stage Docker build using a popular static site generator Gatsby.
Static Site Rendering Conquer All
Goodbye WordPress, it has been quite a journey.
Are there any Mastodon instances for devs?
Mastodon is a hot topic now, and with Twitter constantly breaking their API there must be more than a...