Niko Heikkilä (he/him)

@nikoheikkila.fi

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Software engineer and recruiter working in the intersection of people and technology. Pop-culture geek outside the office. Posts in ENG/FIN. «A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same, even for half an hour.»

A monochrome slow-mo video of rapids with water splashing wildly.
A video of a lake whose water is gently strolling by.
A black pot of rigatoni pasta in a thick tomato sauce with vegetarian minced meat and finely chopped vegetables.
Flatbread made of an omelet between two tortillas, dusted lightly with parmesan, served with roasted cherry tomatoes on a black-rimmed plate.
Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front surround a lonely black woman on her metro journey to Washington DC on the Fourth of July. Picture by Reuters.
A Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) console with the Japanese Contra cartridge inserted, showing its box art of two soldiers with guns.
Two large inflatable Angry Birds characters, one red and one white, suspended above a gaming exhibition floor lined with retro arcade cabinets.
Framed June 1997 cover of The Face magazine featuring a 3D-rendered Lara Croft holding two pistols, with cover lines "Silicon Chick," "U2," "Spiritualized," "Milla," "This Life," "Gillian Anderson," and "Lara Croft: Bigger Than Pammy, Wiser Than Yoda."
Uutisotsikko: ”Hellepettymys! Viileä ilma valtaa pian Suomen” Ingressi: ”Loppuviikoksi on luvassa epävakaampaa säätä.”
View to Näsinneula and Särkänniemi from a bridge in Tampere.
LinkedIn-kuvakaappaus
Suomalainen jääkiekkofani juhlii maailmanmestaruutta ilman paitaa Suomen lippua heiluttaen katutolpassa.
Marssi lähtee Sorin aukiolta. Mielenosoittajalla on valkoinen kyltti, jossa lukee Tampere fasismia vastaan sekä piirros vasarasta, joka murskaa hakaristin.
Paavo Pulkkinen, a famous Finnish backwoods Bond villain plotting to keep all the women home as much as possible.
Cover art for album: Paleface & Laulava Unioni – Hoopon Elämän Mysteerit
Helsingin uimavesien lämpötilat. Muualla normaalia, mutta Porvarinlahdella -327.7 astetta. Alla varoitus, jossa lukee "Mittari on rikki. Tämä on tiedossa eikä siitä tarvitse erikseen ilmoittaa, kiitos."
Tweet from Browser Company: "Today, The Browser Company of New York is entering into an agreement to be acquired by Atlassian for $610M in an all-cash transaction. We will operate independently, with Dia as our focus. Our objective is to bring Dia to the masses."
iOS Lock Screen featuring the Berlin TV Tower against a blue night sky.
A brew of fresh light-roast coffee in Chemex. The lighting makes the coffee look red as grape juice.
A scam email attempting to purchase my blog and turn it into a blog.
Pinsa filled with buffalo mozzarella, cheese, sausage, olives, tomatoes, fresh garlic, basil and arugula.
Cover image of my post as seen in Mastodon.
A Christmas dinner table with plenty of fish, cheese and bread.
Fig cut open, insides showing. Gross.
"What are the walls of the new Olümpia hotel made of? Micro concrete (70% concrete, 30% microphones)"
Gas mask.
Old Town with a view of tower.
Snacks.
Festive dinner.
Python code snippet: # BAD: Too many parameters in signature. def enroll(name: str, age: int, occupation: str, address: str, city: str, zip_code: str, state: str, country: str): ... # GOOD: Use a dataclass to group parameters. from dataclasses import dataclass @dataclass class EnrollProps: first_name: str last_name: str address: str city: str zip_code: str state: str country: str def enroll(props: EnrollProps): ... # BETTER: Split parameters to value objects. @dataclass class Person: name: str age: int occupation: str @dataclass class Address: address: str city: str zip_code: str state: str country: str def enroll(person: Person, address: Address): ...
Kaksi autoa. Lava-auto Datsun ja sähköauto Tesla pysäköitynä peräkkäin Vantaalla.
Poster for the film The Killer (2023).
A photo of a white ceramic unicorn with blue wings, mantle and a horn standing between a display and a keyboard.
I was in the position to coach 9 software development teams. As I was setting the quality bar for them, some teams pushed back against TDD. I told them I'm okay with them not doing TDD just as long as their repos do not contain surviving mutants. Guess what? They couldn't do it.
A glass of old-fashioned with clementine peels and ice.
Photo of my working setup.
Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
Mob Programming with the Godfather being the typist and other members of the family being the talkers. One of the talkers is holding a Thompson submachine gun.
Post by Nat Bennett: When people tell me "Jira is fine" I like to point out that it's not possible to assign more than one person to a story so it's basically not usable for serious work