Feed - Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

How much change is the right amount of change? 🔗

a great piece about Slay the Spire 2 this week. In it, he wished that the developers would have made more changes and especially points out how dull [...]

New protocol proposal for indie web: human.json 🔗

new protocol proposal for a human.json file by Beto Dealmeida. Beto describes the background as: verifying identity or building trust between peop [...]

Markdown content split to sections in Eleventy and Nunjucks 🔗

Last night, while sitting in the train on my way home, I got nerdsniped into writing another Eleventy post by tlohde who asked if there was a [...]

I completed Stardew Valley’s shipping collection — in reverse 🔗

Gvendolynn’s video Completing the Entire Stardew Valley Shipping List in Reverse Order inspired me to give the challenge a go and experience the g [...]

Au revoir, Eleventy 🔗

static site generator Eleventy in the spring of 2018 from a colleague of mine. It had just released version 0.3.1 when I built the first Elevent [...]

Happy 10th birthday Stardew Valley 🔗

A pink cake is in order for the celebrations! Published in February 26th 2016, Stardew Valley has reached a very mature age of 10 years and [...]

Different notebook sizes for different ideas 🔗

I wrote about how I use it and that is still accurate. I always keep it with me either in my winter jacket’s pocket or in my backpack and whenever [...]

Them weird dreams 🔗

Obviously, it wasn’t quite that straight-forward. Almost always, the trick is that either one of them is impossible within the dream’s fabricated [...]

IndieWeb Carnival hosting Q&A with Zachary Kai 🔗

IndieWeb Carnival in May 2024 on the topic of creative environments and I’m hosting another one in May 2026 with a new topic. While waiting [...]

Taskmaster UK Series 7 is peak entertainment 🔗

Taskmaster Tier List. But they keep making more of them all around the world and I haven’t quite gotten to the finish line of writing about all of [...]

I made a board game zine 🔗

Roll the Zine, a board and card game focused 8-page zine. I really like the idea of zines and for a few years, I’ve been reading other people [...]

Gaming for busy people 🔗

Nintendo Switch and later continued with Steam Deck as both of them are mobile and crucially, they both provided a sleep mode where you could [...]

I added BookLore to my homelab 🔗

Happy 2026! Update: In March 2026, there was drama around BookLore and eventually the developer either deleted or privated the repository and all [...]

Year in Review 2025 🔗

Introduction Big Fat Quiz of The Year 2016, Mel Giedroyc described her year as: It was absolutely cracking. Marvellous. Every month rolled by b [...]

From Juhis with Love #012 - For a happy new year 🔗

In December issue of From Juhis with Love, I share updates of my projects and lovely bits from the internet. Read #012 - For a happy new year. [...]

We played a full Scarlet & Violet Progression Series 🔗

Pokémon TCG Progression Series (or Evolution Series as some call them). In such series, players open booster boxes of consecutive sets and after e [...]

Merry Christmas! 🔗

It’s Christmas Eve today and that’s when we in Finland celebrate Christmas. If you’re reading this when it comes out, I’m likely sitting at the Chri [...]

I played some games this year 🔗

played this year, not necessarily games published this year. These are not in any kind of order really. I’m sharing these in the spirit of [...]

Advent of Code 2025 retrospective 🔗

It feels weird to write an Advent of Code retrospective a week before Christmas. For years, it’s either been one of the last or first posts of the [...]

I’m a tool builder at heart 🔗

Two things in the past week made me think about tools and how I enjoy building them — often more than doing the things those tools enable us to do. [...]

Where are we going, IndieWeb? 🔗

My dear internet friend and intellectual sparring partner V.H. Belvadi is hosting things month’s IndieWeb Carnival and is asking us: where do you [...]

About writing and audience 🔗

do have? Richard Griffiths asked these questions in his post Why niche blogs and Small Rooms still win - even in the age of technofeudalism [...]

I built a tiny RSS generator for my Advent of Code solutions 🔗

RSS/Atom feeds are one of the great technologies in the open web. They allow me to follow other people and them to follow me. This week, I starte [...]

From Juhis with Love #011 - November of learning 🔗

In November issue of From Juhis with Love, I share updates of my projects and lovely bits from the internet. Read #011 - November of learning. [...]

One thing I’d like to change about Pokémon TCG 🔗

Control Players Unite posted a poll with a question and four options Of the following, if you could change ONE thing about the Pokémon TCG, it [...]

Improve your programming skills with Advent of Code 🔗

What is Advent of Code? day 1 of 2024. There’s a bit of lore to get you into the right Christmas mood — usually Santa has disappeared or someth [...]

My Debugging Python talk from PyCon Finland published 🔗

This past October, I spoke in PyCon Finland about debugging Python. Video of the talk has now been released in Plone’s Youtube channel. I also [...]

Eulogy to my old laptop 🔗

my iPad with a Raspberry Pi as my mobile workstation. It wasn’t the optimal thing but it was the financially responsible one. But despite its rou [...]

I designed a 3D printed photo caddy insert for Tiny Epic Galaxies 🔗

Last week, I added Tiny Epic Galaxies to my tabletop games collection. I’ve been enjoying the game for a long time but never owned a copy until [...]