About
My name is Raivo and I am a former software consultant, a business owner, and an Open Source contributor. I have built software for the last 15 years.
I enjoy to create web applications. My latest projects include a web-based truck load optimizer and an online CAD application. I maintain the Blog-Core blogging framework and a number of Open Source libraries.
Technology
My usual developement stack is made of:
- Node.js server-side JavaScript runtime.
- Express web application framework.
- React frontend framework.
- Bootstrap frontend user-interface framework.
- MySQL database.
This stack has stayed relatively unchanged for the last 5 years.
I also love to play around with SWI-Prolog and often try out new libraries and frameworks. I keep in touch with the community by reading a large number of technical blogs and visiting local developer meetups.
I keep my Open Source code on GitHub. You can reach out to me
on LinkedIn and
Twitter.
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I was a freelance software developer 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 out and killed...
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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 produc...
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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...
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Last week I reworked the blog typography a bit and added a custom font. I had used only the available built-in fonts on various platforms until now. I used Tahoma on Windows, which renders pretty p...
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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 r...
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The blog has now over 200 articles. 3 years ago I wrote an overview of the blog statistics when I had 100 articles. Recently I looked through my analytics and put together a new summary.
Writing s...
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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...
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Role or job creep is a situation where job responsibilities keep piling up.
Role creep is especially bad in software development as the demand for developers is much higher than their availabilit...
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I have a GTX660 graphics card in my main desktop computer and recently it started to make bad noises. The noises came from its cooling fans. The graphics card uses so-called WindForce design where ...
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It's been a really long time since I wrote my last Now entry.
Blogging
I'm working on couple of articles which I should be publishing in the next 2 months. These will mostly be about some topics...
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