Taavi Väänänen

Hi! My name is Taavi (he/him).

I am a site reliability engineer, and professionally I'm currently working on the Wikimedia Cloud Services platform.

As a volunteer I maintain many authentication and security-related MediaWiki extensions, including CentralAuth which powers the Wikimedia single user login system. I was granted commit ("+2") access to MediaWiki core in 2021 and in August 2022 I was awarded the Wikimedia Tech Contributor of the Year award.

I became a Debian Maintainer in October 2022. I maintain the Debian packages for MediaWiki and other software.

Most of my miscellaneous personal projects are available on sr.ht, and some older projects are still on hosted GitHub.

Blog

My latest blog posts are:

See also the full blog archive, including RSS feeds.

Contact me

The best way to talk to me is via IRC, I'm taavi on libera.chat.

You can also e-mail me, my address (or at least one of too many) is hi@taavi.wtf. If you use PGP, my key is 3465 469C B19D 61E5 E2EA 8AFB EF24 2F70 9F91 2FBE, which is available from taavi.wtf/pgp.txt and common keyservers such as keys.openpgp.org.

I'm also @taavi@wikis.world on the Fediverse. I run that Mastodon server with Kunal Mehta.

Colophon

This website is built using Hugo. It features a custom build of the Iosevka font. The website and its source code is hosted on sr.ht.

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.

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