Welcome

Hello, I'm Jani Hartikainen and this is my personal site. I've been writing on software development adjacent topics and some other things here since 2006 or so.

You can find a list of my most recent writing below. Everything I've ever posted is in the archives, and the topics page has a more category-oriented listing since there is quite a lot of content here.

This is an AI-free zone.

Most recent posts

July 25, 2026 Recovering data from decades old floppy disks
July 16, 2026 Reading The Concept of Mind from a Software Engineering perspective
June 30, 2026 Svelte feels like the "Native Language" of the Web
May 30, 2026 Collecting backlinks from Obsidian files with Hakyll
May 23, 2026 Applying metaphors from other fields into software development
May 16, 2026 Why I don't use AI coding tools (and why science agrees)
May 9, 2026 You should read Programming as Theory Building
May 1, 2026 Moving from WordPress to Obsidian plus Hakyll
July 11, 2017 I spent my vacation programming
May 15, 2017 Quick JavaScript testing tip: How to structure your tests?

You can find more in the archives.