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Niko Heikkilä

Software craftsman with a strong passion for open source software and continuous improvement.

Tampere, Finland Joined on Sep 7, 2017 yo@nikoheikkila.fi https://nikoheikkila.fi

Education

Software Engineer / Self-Taught

Work

Software Engineer at Futurice

Futurice

setup

New Computer, Who Dis? – Setup new development box with a single script

JavaScript • 26 stars

nikoheikkila.fi

A blog by Niko Heikkilä. Powered by coffee, VS Code, and Gatsby.

TypeScript • 12 stars

go-link-health

Use this tool to check for any potentially dead links on a given web page.

Go • 5 stars

git-flight-rules

A typeset book version of Flight Rules for Git by Kate Hudson in PDF format

TeX • 1 star

My core skills lie in web development, project management, and quality assurance. On the backend, I have been meddling with several web development frameworks from Laravel (PHP) to simpler micro-platforms like Flask (Python) and Express (Node.js) for many years. On the frontend, I consider the lovely world of Javascript/Typescript spiced with React or Vue.js a fertile ground where a majority of the future applications leverage.

Go, Rust, TypeScript, React Native, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure

36 posts published

144 comments written

11 tags followed

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Oct 2 '21

Being a Good Developer: Tips for an Effective Code Review

#codereview #programming #codequality #github

6 min read

Jun 16 '20

Kickstarting the Open-Source Culture in Your Company

#opensource #github #git #leadership

11 min read

Jan 7 '20

The Five Ideals of Developer Experience

#devops #productivity #motivation #agile

9 min read

Nov 19 '19

Death of the Production Line and Factory Workers Attitude

#career #productivity

3 min read

Jul 16 '19

The Definitive List of Things I Don't Know

#career #programming #beginners

5 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Nov 19 '21

Bringing Back the Technical Excellence: Rules of Thumb for Effective Software Lifecycle Management

#testing #tdd #productivity #design

13 min read

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

May 24 '21

When to Pair Program and When to Go Solo

#programming #productivity #books #codereview

11 min read

May 10 '21

Health Check Before Jumping to a New Organization

#career #recruitment #agile #technology

3 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

May 1 '21

You Can't Grow Yourself Unless You Grow Others

#career #psychology #leadership #management

8 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Mar 30 '21

Reducing the Lead Times with Little's Law

#agile #productivity #leadership #architecture

6 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Mar 22 '21

Blocking Time for Tasks with Toggl

#showdev #productivity #tooling #go

5 min read

Feb 8 '21

My 21st Century Note-Taking Workflow

#showdev #productivity #writing #tooling

4 min read

Jan 10 '21

Effortless End-To-End Testing with Microsoft Playwright

#testing #productivity #tooling

9 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Oct 27 '20

The Unsurprising Truth about What Motivates Developers

#motivation #career #books #leadership

6 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Oct 17 '20

Fight the Inner Impostor with Just-In-Time Learning

#motivation #mentalhealth #productivity #career

3 min read

Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Sep 15 '20

First Four Weeks at Futurice

#career #learning #motivation #interview

5 min read

May 25 '20

Do You Even Toot? – Mastodon for Developers

#discuss

1 min read

Apr 22 '20

Layman's Guide to Higher-Order Functions

#beginners #functional #javascript #react

4 min read

Mar 28 '20

Rapid Prototyping with Table-Driven Testing

#productivity #testing #typescript #tdd

2 min read

Mar 22 '20

Quoth the Raven, Virtualize Your Stand-Ups

#productivity #agile #motivation

5 min read

Feb 12 '20

Being a Good Developer: Six Tips for a Painless Code Review

#opensource #git #programming #codequality

5 min read

Nov 26 '19

Checking a Web Page for Dead Links (A Golang Command-Line Tutorial)

#showdev #todayilearned #tutorial #go

7 min read

Aug 8 '19

What Is the Best Place for Object Storage in 2019?

#discuss #vue #javascript

1 min read

Aug 7 '19

Customizing Your Shell Prompt for Productivity

#productivity #terminal #shell #bash

3 min read

Jun 23 '19

Show your own /uses page

#discuss #showdev #productivity #webdev

1 min read

May 26 '19

Generating Conventional Changelogs

#showdev #git #shell #tips

4 min read

May 6 '19

Don't Use Bash for Scripting (All the Time)

#beginners #bash #terminal #linux

7 min read

Apr 24 '19

Serving Gatsby Site With Docker Multi-Stage Build

#tutorial #docker #node #devops

6 min read

Apr 23 '19

Static Site Rendering Conquer All

#wordpress #gatsby #now

4 min read

Aug 22 '18

Are there any Mastodon instances for devs?

#discuss #mastodon #fediverse

1 min read

Jun 24 '18

Quick Tip: Faking Dates in PHP with Carbon

#tips #php #testing #phpunit

2 min read

Apr 29 '18

The (Im)Practical Continuous Delivery

#agile #learning #devops #programming

5 min read

Apr 18 '18

How Does Your Workplace Encourage Creativity?

#discuss #work #creativity

2 min read

Apr 14 '18

Check Your Passwords for Pwnage - The Pythonic Way

#python #security #passwords #tools

2 min read

Dec 5 '17

Squashing Software Defects with Eisenhower Matrix

#tasks #productivity #management #lifehack

2 min read

Dec 3 '17

Three Lessons I've Learned as a Professional Web Developer

#career #webdev #programming #php

5 min read

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