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Juha-Matti Santala
Personal blog · hamatti.org/posts · on HN as Hamattiprogrammingculturewriting
Juha-Matti Santala's personal blog at hamatti.org covers programming, culture and writing. Since 2017, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “How I take work notes as a developer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Juha-Matti Santala's personal blog covers developer note-taking with notebooks, LLM failures, and gamifying a blog. Commenters point to its note-taking and blog-gamification posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How I take work notes as a developer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
- Au Revoir, Eleventy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-04
- Art forgery, LLMs and why it feels a bit off2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-24
What Hacker News says?
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-develop...
Comment linking /posts/how-i-take-work-notes-as-a-developer/
on “As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook”Submitted As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook as a story · 468 points
HN discussionThere is another interesting linked post… https://hamatti.org/posts/how-i-take-work-notes-as-a-develop...
Comment linking /posts/how-i-take-work-notes-as-a-developer/
on “As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook”Submitted Static sites enable a good time travel experience as a story · 194 points
HN discussionhttps://hamatti.org/posts/art-forgery-llms-and-why-it-feels-... People will just believe whatever they hear.
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on “AI models miss disease in Black and female patients”Submitted Dotfiles feel too personal to share as a story · 179 points
HN discussionNot 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
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on “Static sites enable a good time travel experience”Submitted Please, don't force me to log in as a story · 67 points
HN discussionLocation: 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: juhamattisantala@gmail.com 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 commu…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)”Submitted What does it feel like to read RSS feeds? as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Combinatoric Iterators from Itertools as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improve your programming skills with Advent of Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive enhancement is a crucial design principle for smart devices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can have your hobby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How childhood gaming formed my work preferences as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging is my new favourite refactoring tool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Curation over Algorithmic Recommendations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improved print readability with pprint: Juha-Matti Santala as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book recommendation: Fluent Python (2nd Edition) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I prefer discussion in open web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Print is your best debugging tool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A fun debugging story from this weekend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A love letter to our library bus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Au Revoir, Eleventy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where are we going, IndieWeb? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted View-Source Explorers Welcome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improved print readability with pprint: Juha-Matti Santala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Art forgery, LLMs and why it feels a bit off as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full-text RSS feed is an offline-friendly act as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We organized a code in the dark event as a story · 2 points
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