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Raivo Laanemets

Welcome to my homepage! My name is Raivo. I'm a software developer. I live in Elva in South Estonia.

I currently work at Ambright GmbH and build a visual editor using React and TypeScript. My hobbies are running and dancing.

Blog posts

Early Spring in Catania

I spent early Spring in Catania. Catania is the second-largest city in Sicily in Italy. I went to enjoy a bit warmer weather and more sunlight than is possible to have in South-Estonia at the same tim...
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On 2024-04-18

Tailwind CSS experience

I have gathered some Tailwind experience over the last two years and decided to write about it. My learnings, both positive and negative, are from a couple of projects including an attempt to use it o...
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On 2023-10-26

Abandoned and Burned

I found an abandoned home while exploring the nearby places. It's about 5 kilometers from my hometown Elva, between small patches of forests and fields. I was on my usual weekend hike and was visi...
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On 2023-03-11

Winter in South Estonia

It's been snowing in the last couple of weeks in South Estonia. There is white bright snow everywhere. It's quite a peaceful time here. I enjoy such weather a lot. It's stable. Often we j...
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On 2022-12-30

Freelancing: success and mistakes

I was a freelance software developer and consultant for nearly 15 years. In this article I decided to put down the 5 most important approaches that gave me success and the 5 mistakes that burned me ou...
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On 2018-12-30

Lasita Maja shipping system

For some time now, I have been working on an information system designed to manage shipping orders at AS Lasita Maja. AS Lasita Maja makes log cabins. They are one of the leading log cabin producers i...
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Is programming in Prolog difficult?

Programming in Prolog is different to programming in imperative languages such as JavaScript. The logic underpinnings of Prolog make the language harder in some ways while also easier in some other wa...
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On 2018-12-20

Just Dance controller app on Samsung S3

Just Dance is a series of dance video games that use a motion controller to judge how well the player can mimic the on-screen dancer's choreography. Just Dance 2017 runs on PC (the other releases ...
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On 2018-12-17

Washed-out colors on Windows 10 with NVIDIA graphics

I had an interesting color-related graphics issue on my Windows 10 machine. As I use the machine mostly for gaming, I previously did not invest much time into solving it. However, recently I had to do...
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On 2018-12-05

Scripting webpages with Prolog, WebAssembly and Virtual DOM

Some time ago I experimented with a Prolog Virtual DOM implementation to create and manipulate the webpage DOM inside a web browser. I wanted to see how suitable would Prolog terms be for representing...
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On 2018-07-07

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