Juha-Matti Santala
hamatti.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2017
Juha-Matti Santala is a Finnish web developer who writes about note-taking, static sites, RSS, and developer habits.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts on work notes, notebooks, and LLM art forgery, and praise his playful blog gamification.
19HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Au Revoir, Eleventy3 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 2How I take work notes as a developer3 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 3Art forgery, LLMs and why it feels a bit off2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 4As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook1 people · 468 points · first shared 2025 · 290 comments on HN
- 5Static sites enable a good time travel experience1 people · 194 points · first shared 2025 · 41 comments on HN
- 6Dotfiles feel too personal to share1 people · 179 points · first shared 2025 · 145 comments on HN
- 7Please, don't force me to log in1 people · 67 points · first shared 2024 · 25 comments on HN
- 8What does it feel like to read RSS feeds?1 people · 58 points · first shared 2024 · 56 comments on HN
- 9Improved print readability with pprint: Juha-Matti Santala1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 10Combinatoric Iterators from Itertools1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 11I prefer discussion in open web1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 12Print is your best debugging tool1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · 4 comments on HN
- 13How childhood gaming formed my work preferences1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14Improve your programming skills with Advent of Code1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15Blogging is my new favourite refactoring tool1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Amorymeltzer · 2025-09-02
Not strictly the topic, but don't miss or sleep on the blog (self-)gamification links[1][2], excellent whimsy.
1: https://hamatti.org/posts/i-gamified-my-own-blog/
2: https://varunbarad.com/blog/blogging-achievements
Hamatti · 2017-05-03
Location: Turku/Helsinki, Finland
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes, to Berlin/Amsterdam
Technologies: PHP, Python, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, SQL
Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juhamattisantala
Email: [email protected]
I'm a full-stack web developer with experience in building SaaS services in couple of startups, Chartio in San Francisco and Smartly.io in Helsinki. Since 09/2015 I've been a community manager in an entrepreneurship community / coworking space helping young entrepreneurs to get started and network.
I have a wide perspective on product development from both the technical side (I can code and build stuff, been doing that since I was 11 or 12) and the business/customer side (from seeing dozens of startups get started and working in small startups myself). Analytics and data is really close to my heart and working as a data engineer would be awesome.
I'm also a good community manager. My background there is in non-profits such as Rails Girls and my current work at Boost Turku. I also run a tech meetup Turku <3 Frontend for local developers that has gathered over 300 people in a bit over a year to the community.
Learn more about me at https://hirejuhis.com and http://hamatti.org. I'm available starting October and willing to move.
tony-allan · 2025-05-28
There is another interesting linked post…
https://hamatti.org/posts/how-i-take-work-notes-as-a-developer/
avinassh · 2025-05-28
I want to ask developers here who keep and maintain notebooks: How exactly do you take notes? What things do you write down? And how does it help you, or how has it made you a better developer?
OP's post also references a similar post [0], but I am curious to hear from the people here.
[0] - https://hamatti.org/posts/how-i-take-work-notes-as-a-developer/
thaumasiotes · 2025-03-27
https://hamatti.org/posts/art-forgery-llms-and-why-it-feels-a-bit-off/
People will just believe whatever they hear.