Hacker News: miikavonbell

New comment by miikavonbell in "Software engineers hate code"

miikavonbell — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:19:28 +0000

"Code either works or it doesn't" is more like a mindset and a pholisophy rather then truth or a fact.

In the context of this article and this thread, I was just reminded about this approach.

Hating or loving software development, other peoples code, or approach is sort of meaningless.

At the end of the day, we all get paid to build software and it is our job to make the software functional.

As long as the code works and does what it is supposed to do, thats all that matters.

New comment by miikavonbell in "Software engineers hate code"

miikavonbell — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:54:09 +0000

I've been a software developer for almost 10 years and during that time I've questioned many times why I keep on going.

A while ago I realized that the biggest thing that I like about software development is the simplicity within it's complexity.

What I mean by this is; software either works or it doesn't. In many other professions this is not the case.

So while there are many things that could be done better and more efficiently, at the end of the day, your code either works or it doesn't.

So simple, but yet, so ruthless.

New comment by miikavonbell in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

miikavonbell — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:15:24 +0000

Yes, my blog has RSS enabled on all list-pages. Just add /index.xml to path and it should work, for example:

- https://miikavonbell.com/fi/index.xml - https://miikavonbell.com/index.xml

Best of luck with learning Finnish! It is a hard language to learn for foreigners.

New comment by miikavonbell in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

miikavonbell — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:49:08 +0000

Here is my personal blog I've been running for a few years now since the pandemic:

- English: https://miikavonbell.com/

- Finnish: https://miikavonbell.com/fi/

Sometimes I get excited about different topics and niches which I unload by writing in my blog so it's a collection of whatever I find interesting. Here are some categories and tags to try to keep everything organized:

- Categories (English): https://miikavonbell.com/categories/

- Tags (English): https://miikavonbell.com/tags/

- Categories (Finnish): https://miikavonbell.com/fi/categories/

- Tags (Finnish): https://miikavonbell.com/fi/tags/

What are static websites and when to use them?

miikavonbell — Mon, 23 May 2022 17:22:49 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/guides/what-are-static-websites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31481959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Seeking good work-life balance and avoiding burnout

miikavonbell — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 15:57:07 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/articles/work-life-balance-as-a-software-developer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31216961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How well do you know your colleagues?

miikavonbell — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:59:15 +0000

I'm currently coming off of a project where I barely knew my coworkers after having worked with them for more than two years.

Before this project, I used to work with coworkers who I learned to know a lot better.

I don't know how much of this is because of the pandemic and how much of it is because of other cultural aspects of the project.

How well do others know their coworkers on a personal level? Do you feel like you should or shouldn't share aspects from private life with your coworkers or not?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31029698

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Grammar in the workplace

miikavonbell — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:00:01 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/grammar-in-workplace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30631679

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by miikavonbell in "How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should"

miikavonbell — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 17:01:25 +0000

You can also couple Hugo with Netlify CMS or Forestry.io.

Those add a CMS UI for your SSG website that can be accessed for example from yourblog.com/admin/.

New comment by miikavonbell in "Reddit can't build a better search engine"

miikavonbell — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:02:50 +0000

I haven't seen much discussions about solving the entire "search sucks" mess by simply introducing rich filtering for the results.

The way I see it is that Google is still some weird magic box that throws a bunch of random results out based on some black magic logic.

It's beyond my comprehension that there are no filters on any on the search engines (at least I don't remember seeing any).

By having some filtering options, such as "No JavaScript", "No ads", "SSGs only", "Page size < 1MB" and so on, search would be much better.

Two years of working remotely full time

miikavonbell — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:12:25 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/post/remote-work-experience/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159855

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

My top tools for blogging in 2022

miikavonbell — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/articles/top-10-tools-for-blogging/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30084288

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Moving my blog from Cloudflare to Netlify

miikavonbell — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/articles/moving-my-blog-from-cloudflare-to-netlify/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025921

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by miikavonbell in "The End of Social Media"

miikavonbell — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:57:59 +0000

OP Here.

Wasn't really expecting this much discussion and attention for my article, but I am quite happy to see so much people having similar thoughts like I have, which I wrote in my article.

I wrote a follow up post to my blog to share some of my afterthoughts: https://miikavonbell.com/posts/front-page-hacker-news/

The End of Social Media

miikavonbell — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/posts/end-of-social-media/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28245634

Points: 119

# Comments: 112

Sustainable Internet: Eco-Friendly Websites with Renewable Energy

miikavonbell — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:55:23 +0000

Article URL: https://miikavonbell.com/articles/sustainable-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999362

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

My first open source project is a CMS

miikavonbell — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:26:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/miikavonbell/status/1405182646657949698

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27531081

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by miikavonbell in "Small B Blogging (2018)"

miikavonbell — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:44:23 +0000

This blog is very relatable and I really like the idea of Small b blogging for smaller audiences.

I recently started my first own blog as a software developer and I decided to build my blog completely from scratch.

I used to do consulting for building WordPress and other CMS websites and I could never imagine myself using one of these tools for my personal needs if I were ever to start a blog myself.

There is so much code bloat and overhead when using any CMS or framework for the purpose of blogging. All I really need for my blog is a simple interface for adding some text and images to a database and a simple server that wraps everything together for the end-user.

This is my blog that I have built completely from scratch: https://miikavonbell.com

I really like the minimalistic approach of Tom's blog and will take some notes to improve my own platform.