Niko Heikkilä @nikoheikkila@mastodon.technology

This weekend's so-called hobby project was updating my CV.

I know, it sounds dreadful if you think about the old-fashioned way of opening a Microsoft Word and filling tables with summer gigs. I've never been that guy, so I made a web version of my resume as a Gatsby single-page app with continuous serverless deployment (of course). The coolest feature is fetching my open-source repositories from GitHub API.

Maybe save the link for later and get in touch?

https://cv.nikoheikkila.fi/

🔥Some people are often puzzled about my setup – and the font I use – or just want to hear my recommendations for a given task. Check out my personal /uses page for the tools I use.

https://nikoheikkila.fi/uses/

I blogged six tips for making your team's life better by submitting great pull requests for review. 🔥

https://nikoheikkila.fi/blog/being-a-good-developer-six-tips-for-a-painless-code-review/

Did you know that you can hide stories from certain accounts in Instagram? I didn't.

No more need I skim through your videos having whatever the hell lottery boxes spin over your heads. Begone!

There are software companies out there that prohibit their developers of deploying changes to production because it's a security risk.

Granted, humans shouldn't do deployments by hand because it's a responsibility of the CI/CD pipeline. Nevertheless, actively limiting people's role in the technology value stream for weak reasons is a thing I strongly detest.

I hope those companies don't boast themselves having a culture of trust.

Just realized the Windows Terminal now has an experimental flag for turning a nice CRT-style scanline effect on. I might keep it on!

`"experimental.retroTerminalEffect": true`

Takes a while to get on the same train with Taika Waititi but once it happens you won't regret the journey. Go see Jojo Rabbit (2019) now. It's a film that can only be described as rich.

I blogged what I learned about developer experience after having read The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project. Read on if you're managing a development team struggling with general unhappiness in your technology organisation.

https://nikoheikkila.fi/blog/the-five-ideals-of-developer-experience/

The video card on my Windows PC fried. It was overclocked and thus pretty unstable, anyway. Luckily other components seem to be well so I just had to reset BIOS settings by unplugging the CMOS and plug displays to the integrated card.

In other words, what's a quality video card for lightweight gaming and watching videos in 2020?

Merry Christmas!

As every year, when you've had enough of the negative-minded people in the dinner table with you, don't be ashamed to take some private time.

I've stopped keeping in touch with these kind of people and life has been rocking ever since.

I suggest not watching The Rise of Skywalker unless you're a very forgiving fan. Even so, you would find yourself between being confused of the jumpy script and cringing at stupid characters (except maybe Robert E. Grant).

For once, I would have hoped JJ Abrams to go full-on fanservice mode and not trying to be original.