Taavi Väänänen

Hi! I'm Taavi (he/him) and you have found my personal website. I can be found doing infrastructure and software things on various places around the internet.

At Wikimedia I'm a sysadmin and have had commit ("+2") access to MediaWiki core since 2021. In August 2022 I was awarded the Wikimedia Tech Contributor of the Year award. Most recently I did a bunch of SRE work on the Wikimedia Cloud Services platform.

I'm also involved in the Debian project, and I maintain the Debian packages for MediaWiki and other software. I became a full member of the project (Debian Developer) in May 2024. In addition I've worked on jQuery's infrastructure.

Most of my miscellaneous personal projects are hosted on my personal git server, on sourcehut, or on GitHub for some older projects.

I like trains.

Smaller projects

These are also things that I've been involved with but could not fit into the text above:

Blog

My latest blog posts are:

2024-11-01 Custom domains on the Wikimedia Cloud VPS web proxy
2024-10-13 Bulk downloading Wikimedia Commons categories
2024-05-14 Wikimedia Hackathon Tallinn 2024

See also the full blog archive, including RSS feeds.

Talk to me

IRC: taavi on libera.chat; taavi on OFTC; taavi on hackint
Email: hi@taavi.wtf; taavi@debian.org
If you use PGP, my key is 3465 469C B19D 61E5 E2EA 8AFB EF24 2F70 9F91 2FBE, which is available from taavi.wtf/pubkey.asc and common keyservers such as keys.openpgp.org, keyserver.ubuntu.com and keyring.debian.org. (Ok, the last one is maybe not so common.)
Fediverse: @taavi@wikis.world
XMPP/Jabber: xmpp:taavi@debian.org

Train photo

Eil commuter train cars at Helsinki central station forming a Z train service to Kouvola

Eil Helsingin päärautatieasemalla heinäkuussa 2024 02.jpg 📍 Helsinki, Finland 📅 2024-07-02 📷 iPhone 14 Pro

Colophon

This website is built using Hugo. It features a custom build of the Iosevka font. The source code from my git server is built on builds.sr.ht and deployed to infrastructure powered by Debian, Apache HTTPd and HAProxy. A Tor hidden service is also available, because why not.

It uses zero JavaScript and just a couple of kilobytes of CSS styles. Most of the page size currently comes to the custom font, which takes about 25kb to fully load, even with most unnecessary characters removed.