About Me

Hi there! I am Kaj Lund. I live on the Finnish northern west coast. I have been working as a professional software developer since 1998. During the past 10+ years I've mainly worked with fullstack web development mostly building backends and REST APIs using Node.js.

Lately I'm back to mostly doing Delphi backend programming and Node.js integrations.

What I'm Up To

2026

AI tools training
React training

2025

More SQL Basics
Familiarized myself with Drizzle ORM.
More backend testing using Vitest.
Replanning my website
Looking at AI tools

2024

Build this website using server templating techniques.
Learn more Devops suff like Docker, Kubernetes and Helm

2023

Some SQL basics. Need to do more.
Built Gina's Grill website

2022

Look into using Fastify as a possible replacement for Express
Learning about React and Next.js
Took some GraphQL courses

2021

Learning Svelte.js and SvelteKit. The former version of this site was built using those tools.
Worked with Express instead of Hapi.js for Node.js server development

2020

Took some Golang courses
Took some TypeScript, LitHtml, Express & GraphQL courses
Course on doing Microservices with Node.js
Worked some with Svelte.js

2019

Themes are Code-Quality (Testing, Documentation), REST alternatives and Client-Side frameworks. As big part of testing in JS is type-checking, using TypeScript could be considered a part of testing.

Start using JDoc or alternative on all code.
Try Express to compare with Hapi
Compare GraphQL aa an alternative to REST
Look into new ECMA features for Node.

2018

Use Prettier for code linting and formatting
New ECMA features. Check Node Green for things you can use in node
Switch node servers to use hapi 17, Node 8+, async/await
Using Node 8+ objects and arrays has .includes() function