Kimmo Saari
full stack developer · Reaktor
Full-stack developer based in Tampere. TypeScript, React, Node — with Unix-like systems humming underneath and a CI pipeline that actually passes.
2026-08-22Coding
A handful of Slack workspaces, all showing whatever status I last bothered to type. So I built a Tauri app that watches the network and the calendar and sets it for me, per workspace — with Claude writing the Rust resolver, and me finding out which of Switchboard's old scars were worth reopening.
2026-08-22Coding
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.
2026-08-22Smart Home
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.