Hi, I'm Tuomas 👋

I'm a technology enthustiast and a programmer.

I love solving problems that end up looking a lot like a product or a service. I use Ruby on Rails because for me, it's the fastest way to minimal viable products for the web.

Yes, it scales. Beware the dangers of premature optimization.

My first computer was in fact Spectravideo 328 but I got Commodore 64 bit later. So technically, I was Spectravideo 328 kid first, but then I reinvented myself as Commodore 64 kid. It's bit weird, Commodore 64 had inferior programming tooling and programming manuals but it was still the most popular 8-bit computer.

Since then, I have been writing code pretty much every day.

Here are some of my sideprojects

System font stack - All the fonts that modern browsers have installed as a default. May 2022
HTML Editor - Small and tiny HTML editor built in 30 minutes. It has live preview and syntax highlighting! Perfect for learning HTML and CSS via Web Design in 4 minutes. Nov 2021
Yesno.email - Really simple email surveys, does just one thing, but does it MVP well. (offline for good) Dec 2020
TinyVoucher - I wondered would it be possible to sell digital vouchers on a static web page. After tinkering with this thought for few days, turns out it's possible.Mar 2019
Hockeyletter - Each night Hockeyletter sends an email that contains the scores of last night's NHL games with some highlights.
It's closed for now, once the NHL starts, I'll maybe reopen Nov 2018
TribeOps - Privacy-friendly happiness survey tool for teams. TribeOps sends an weekly email survey and your team members can voice their feeling anonymously. The creator of the survey cannot see individual responses. Sep 2016
Tinyinvoice - Super simple invoicing for people who hate computers. Just create an invoice and send it to your client as PDF. Can it be more easier than that?
Tinyinvoice was acquired by Invoice2go in 2020
Rubysauna - Warm little Ruby event for programmers. It was organized three times (two times in Oulu and once in Helsinki) and it was actually pretty awesome event and we got great feedback from participants. I organized it with Florian. Who knows, maybe we organize it again in the future?
Gridlover - Web design is at least 80% typography, so you need Gridlover to help you find the vertical rhythm. It's like finding the feng-shui for your paragraphs!
The most common colors for copy & pasting - It's a gradient of white and black RGB values for text and background. I am constantly googling for the most basic colors, so this list saves a bit of my time.

Tuomas Jomppanen

Hi, I'm Tuomas 👋

Here are some of my sideprojects

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