Niko Heikkilä (he/him)

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)

@nikoheikkila.fi

Platform Engineer and recruiter working in the intersection of people and technology. Outside office I’m pop-culture geek with a heart full of leftist politics 🚩, social justice, anti-fascism, and cooking. Posts in 🇬🇧/🇫🇮

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Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

A recent video from @tolin.ski asking how AI coding is affecting our mental health got me thinking why I haven't felt severe negative impact in my work. The culprit is in the way I have worked before AI was a thing, and how I work today. Full story in my blog.👇🏻 nikoheikkila.fi/blog/healthc...

nikoheikkila.fiHealthcheck for You, DeveloperResearch into AI coding and mental health made me ask why coding itself has never burned me out, and what healthy ways of working look like. Let's find out!

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The Associated Press
@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

Arc browser is being sunset this December, so I took @diabrowser.com for a spin. To my surprise, it's as smooth as Arc and the AI features don't push to my face as I feared. Well done! I might stick with this for now, and hopefully an iOS version follows soon.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

The Devils (1971) A black celebration of Christrape, lust, carnival bizarre, and the perfect moustache. Appreciate the audacity of the time and Oliver Reed’s intense performance, but these alone do not a good film make.

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

And retrospectives need not be bi-weekly events. You can have one every day in a spirit of *continuous* improvement!

Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social

Though I'm probably nuts to flog the Agile dead horse, I have to point out that the _only_ concrete practice in the Agile Manifesto is the retrospective. All that other garbage—Sprints, backlogs, reviews, points, velocity, epics, POs, SMs, release trains, &c.—is not mentioned. Just sayin'. 1/2

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

Ah, ‘tis the season of uncontrollably eating vitamin D and duct-taping a light therapy lamp to your face again. I’m trying my best not to get depressed this winter, but who am I kidding?

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Allen Holub
@allenholub.bsky.social

If you are a "Scrum shop," where everybody marches in lockstep to the same process/framework drum, you are not Agile. Period. Agile teams are self-organizing, and among other things, that means that every team gets to decide how it's going to do its own work (and how to align with other teams). 1/5

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Internet Archive
@archive.org

#SpookySeason gets a sinister, shadowy visitor. 🦇 In F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922), Count Orlok’s long fingers & eerie silhouette make this landmark of horror cinema a study in unease. 🕯️ See it and more Spooky Stuff in the Internet Archive collections ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

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Obsidian
@obsidian.md

Pele is a fast, beautiful, open source renderer for Mermaid diagrams we created for the next version of Obsidian. You can already try it in the Pele playground and integrate it into your own apps! 🌋 pele.run

pele.runPele · Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVGPele is a lightweight library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG, themed with CSS variables.
kepano@stephango.com

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

Having a lunch in town. On the table next to me, someone is complaining how Python is difficult with all the functions, loops, and values but they have discovered a magical website where everyone can post questions and code snippet answers. How refreshing to hear these words in the AI era.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

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Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

Suurten tietomassojen seulonta MCP-palvelinta käyttäen lukeutuu niihin järkeviin tekoälyn sovelluksiin, kunhan käytössä oleva agentti on maadoitettu hakemaan sisältö kurinalaisesti ja käyttäjälläkin pysyy valot päällä. Hyvää työtä, Kansallisarkisto!

Kansallisarkisto@kansallisarkisto.fi

Kokeilemme uutta! Voit nyt kytkeä oman tekoälyavustajasi Kansallisarkiston sisältöhakuun ja kysyä vapaasti yli 8 miljoonan sivun tuomiokirja- ja viranomaisaineistoista 1600–1900-luvuilta. Lue lisää: kansallisarkisto.fi/-/aineistoje...

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Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

Amazon Prime’s Carrie series first half is strong, but rapidly vaporizes towards the end by introducing a disjointed subplot and making the entire prom night atrociously anticlimactic. Skip it and watch the 1976 film instead.

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

I have both headphones and external speakers connected to my laptop, yet always Slack manages to choose the speakers as the audio output for all Huddles. No amount of tinkering in the settings fixes this. Absurdity!

Niko Heikkilä (he/him)
@nikoheikkila.fi

FOSS is turning into FISS (Free and Inner-Source Software).

Vitest@vitest.dev

We are updating our AI Policy to reduce maintenance stress. All pull requests are now automatically closed, unless they are created by maintainers or users from an approved list of contributors. The PR is not lost. If the team decides the change is worth pursuing, we will reopen it.