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

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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

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Jun 16 '20

Kickstarting the Open-Source Culture in Your Company

#opensource #github #git #leadership

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Jan 7 '20

The Five Ideals of Developer Experience

#devops #productivity #motivation #agile

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Nov 19 '19

Death of the Production Line and Factory Workers Attitude

#career #productivity

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Jul 16 '19

The Definitive List of Things I Don't Know

#career #programming #beginners

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Nov 19 '21

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

#testing #tdd #productivity #design

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Creating a React Custom Hook using TDD

Great stuff! Tutorials are so much easier to follow when you ...

Nov 19 '21

When to Pair Program and When to Go Solo

Interesting. Wouldn't antithesis of writing code actually mea...

May 24 '21

Three Books

What a simple and powerful question! For myself, these are: ...

May 20 '21

Health Check Before Jumping to a New Organization

Precisely! The best IT recruiter is the one who works with te...

May 12 '21

My 21st Century Note-Taking Workflow

I had read good reviews about it, and owning a Kindle had alr...

Mar 30 '21

My 21st Century Note-Taking Workflow

Interesting. I haven't found Remarkable too big – rather I'd ...

Feb 9 '21

Fight the Inner Impostor with Just-In-Time Learning

Absolutely! Always prefer learning fundamentals (rarely grow ...

Oct 19 '20

What defines a senior software engineer?

It's easier to say what does not define a senior engineer. He...

Oct 18 '20

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

May 24 '21

When to Pair Program and When to Go Solo

#programming #productivity #books #codereview

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May 10 '21

Health Check Before Jumping to a New Organization

#career #recruitment #agile #technology

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

May 1 '21

You Can't Grow Yourself Unless You Grow Others

#career #psychology #leadership #management

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Mar 30 '21

Reducing the Lead Times with Little's Law

#agile #productivity #leadership #architecture

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Mar 22 '21

Blocking Time for Tasks with Toggl

#showdev #productivity #tooling #go

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Feb 8 '21

My 21st Century Note-Taking Workflow

#showdev #productivity #writing #tooling

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Jan 10 '21

Effortless End-To-End Testing with Microsoft Playwright

#testing #productivity #tooling

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Niko Heikkilä for Futurice

Oct 27 '20

The Unsurprising Truth about What Motivates Developers

#motivation #career #books #leadership

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Oct 17 '20

Fight the Inner Impostor with Just-In-Time Learning

#motivation #mentalhealth #productivity #career

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Sep 15 '20

First Four Weeks at Futurice

#career #learning #motivation #interview

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Niko Heikkilä

May 25 '20

Do You Even Toot? – Mastodon for Developers

#discuss

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Apr 22 '20

Layman's Guide to Higher-Order Functions

#beginners #functional #javascript #react

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Mar 28 '20

Rapid Prototyping with Table-Driven Testing

#productivity #testing #typescript #tdd

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Mar 22 '20

Quoth the Raven, Virtualize Your Stand-Ups

#productivity #agile #motivation

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Niko Heikkilä

Feb 12 '20

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

#opensource #git #programming #codequality

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Niko Heikkilä

Nov 26 '19

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

#showdev #todayilearned #tutorial #go

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Aug 8 '19

What Is the Best Place for Object Storage in 2019?

#discuss #vue #javascript

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Aug 7 '19

Customizing Your Shell Prompt for Productivity

#productivity #terminal #shell #bash

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Niko Heikkilä

Jun 23 '19

Show your own /uses page

#discuss #showdev #productivity #webdev

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May 26 '19

Generating Conventional Changelogs

#showdev #git #shell #tips

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May 6 '19

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

#beginners #bash #terminal #linux

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Apr 24 '19

Serving Gatsby Site With Docker Multi-Stage Build

#tutorial #docker #node #devops

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Apr 23 '19

Static Site Rendering Conquer All

#wordpress #gatsby #now

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Niko Heikkilä

Aug 22 '18

Are there any Mastodon instances for devs?

#discuss #mastodon #fediverse

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Jun 24 '18

Quick Tip: Faking Dates in PHP with Carbon

#tips #php #testing #phpunit

2 min read

Niko Heikkilä

Apr 29 '18

The (Im)Practical Continuous Delivery

#agile #learning #devops #programming

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Niko Heikkilä

Apr 18 '18

How Does Your Workplace Encourage Creativity?

#discuss #work #creativity

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Niko Heikkilä

Apr 14 '18

Check Your Passwords for Pwnage - The Pythonic Way

#python #security #passwords #tools

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Dec 5 '17

Squashing Software Defects with Eisenhower Matrix

#tasks #productivity #management #lifehack

2 min read

Niko Heikkilä

Dec 3 '17

Three Lessons I've Learned as a Professional Web Developer

#career #webdev #programming #php

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