Full-stack developer based in Tampere. TypeScript, React, Node — with Unix-like systems humming underneath and a CI pipeline that actually passes.
I listen to albums, Spotify recommends tracks. Albumize expands playlists into full albums on a schedule — and taught me more than I expected about idempotency, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) week numbers, and why unattended automation is where the real bugs live.
The full story of my Electrolux → MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) → Home Assistant bridge: a reverse-engineered login flow, an API (Application Programming Interface) that caches stale state and takes 15 seconds to fail, a climate entity stuck on "Unavailable", and the debugging sessions behind all of it.
My old streaming app died because I invented ideas faster than I could build them. So I rebuilt it — with Claude writing the overwhelming majority of the code and me acting as product owner and architect. 837 commits and 97 releases later, this is what I learned.