Hi! My name is Jan. I am a senior software engineer based in Finland. Welcome to my personal blog and digital garden¹.

I like keeping things simple and pragmatic. I'm a life-long learner, but I don't go chasing trends.

I enjoy spending time with my fiancée and our dog, tinkering with computer hardware and software, games of all kinds but mostly video-, tabletop and role-playing, electronics, music, language learning and linguistics.

I created this site² as a creative outlet for expressing myself and sharing my experiences.

The posts page is a listing of my posts. I post sporadically about various subjects and with varying levels of effort.

The linklog page contains a curated aggregation of bookmarks, saved blog posts and essays, books, series, papers or anything else that I feel like sharing or recommending, stored in Linkhut.

On the now page I write what's currently going on in my life. Stuff that some would write onto their social media page.

The projects page contains info about my hobby projects.

[1] The phrase "digital garden" is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting "showpiece" and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there. — Joel Hooks

[2] This site is written using the Zola static site generator. At first, the site was automatically deployed after every Markdown edit, but nowadays I use a more traditional manual deploy mechanism.