What I've Learned Validating with Joi

I’ll be honest, despite all of my experience as a front-end developer I haven’t had a lot of projects that dealt heavily with forms and data. Form validation was just something I never really had to work with much. My most recent project, however, is ... more

Introduction to Serverless

By this stage, “serverless” services, otherwise known as Functions as a Service (FaaS), have hit the mainstream. If you have not heard about FaaS before, what it boils down to is moving the level of concern radically away from infrastructure, and towards ... more

Visualising Finnish Arms Export Data

Arms exports is a controversial subject. Opinions are widely diverse among different groups like journalists, peace activists, arms manufacturers, politicians, you and me, and everyone has their own agenda. So imagine what it would be like to build a ... more

Nordic.js 2017. Takeaways from the top 5 talks

About Nordic.js A two-day, single track conference on JavaScript. It aims is to inspire and foster learnings from others within the community. The conference offers lots of opportunities to mingle, play techno ping pong, dance, code in the dark, eat ... more

Our open source FutuParty app

...or why diversity of ideas matters in a company It’s 2017, so when Futurice organises a party, of course that party has an app. It’s called Futufinlandia after the name of this years FutuParty and it’s available at the Play Store and at the App Store. ... more

In search of the perfect workflow: version control for Sketch, powered by git

This post was originally posted on Medium. The digital design process is broken. The tools of the trade are locking us in the old world, still playing catch-up with technology. They prevent design minds from letting go, instead locking us down to think ... more

Barona Jelpp AI for job-market matchmaking

One of the most pressing questions of our time and the foreseeable future is work. How does its changing nature impact its role in society and our relationship with it? Work is important. Almost everyone needs a job to live. Many seek a job to love; ... more

CycleConf 2017 attracted some very different cyclists to Stockholm this spring

Futurice Stockholm had the pleasure of hosting the second Cycle.js Conference to connect JavaScript developers from around the world for a three-day hackfest and conference. With the help of our generous sponsors, great speakers and awesome cyclists ... more

Open sourcing a client project

Our client, the trade union for bachelors of business administration Tradenomiliitto, has decided to open source the web app we have been building with them: Tradenomiitti. It's a social platform for the members of the union. We believe that Tradenomiitti ... more

Using Cycle.js to view real-time satellite test data

A special guest post from Jan van Brügge, self-taught programmer, who makes everything from Cycle.js web apps to satellite control software. Jan is speaking at CycleConf next month, which is organised by Futurice and will take place in Stockholm. This ... more

Small is Beautiful - An introduction To Tribe Four

Note from the author: don't have time to read this? Jump right to the bottom to apply for work in Tribe Four. Small Is Beautiful is a collection of essays by British economist E. F. Schumacher, published in the early seventies. One of the book's recurring ... more

Making a Weather Telegram bot in Purescript

In this post, we'll write a Telegram bot to report the weather and go over a wide breadth of features that should get you acquainted with Purescript and some of its libraries. Hopefully this will whet your appetite for writing some Purescript and become ... more

Authentication databases and services

User authentication and sign-ups are a thing that comes up in many web services. Nowadays it is often “sign in/up with Facebook/Twitter/Google account”, but also signing up with email address, and storing some custom information, such as shipping address ... more

Space Tyckiting in 10 tweets

As a recruiter I have faced all kind of tasks and projects during the past two years. Some of the most exciting and fun parts of my work have been organizing events. This spring, I was faced with a whole new challenge as I coordinated a series of seven ... more

Stockholm Beer & Tech Meetup Videos

Futurice Beer & Tech is our Europe-wide concept where we enjoy stellar tech talks by Futuriceans with casual beer & snacks. (Other drinks available, too.) It's already an institution in Berlin, London and Helsinki. Stockholm is the happy latest ... more

Spicing Up a Music Event

As the red-white A320 descends towards Helsinki-Vantaa Airport on the 12th of March, a familiar view unfolds beneath my window. Having both work and family ties to the Finnish capital, I am no stranger to this flight route, and yet the sight of Helsinki ... more

You need a brand more than it needs you

The world is accelerating and gaining in complexity. There is more of everything now, especially information. The wealth of choices we have in our everyday lives sometimes makes finding the optimal products and services to fulfill our needs a challenge. ... more

Why you should pay employees for free-time Open Source contributions

Late in the year 2014 we at Futurice began to sponsor employee free time open source contributions. What has happened since? Let’s take a look at the year 2015. Numbers Our sponsorship model has remained the same. €15 paid per reported hour, max 30 hours ... more

API services & MVC

You might have heard of this thing called MVC before, maybe you read about it in 1988 in The Journal of Object Oriented Programming, or you were a fanatic user of Smalltalk-76 in the 1970s? Or maybe you are (or work with) an aspiring software developer, ... more

Friday, literally.

Futurice is an international company, our people working in four countries and six different cities, not to mention our brave futunauts working in our customers' offices, scattered all over the place like stars across the sky. We use a team chat tool ... more

VJing with Web MIDI and RxJS

Since the announcement of Web MIDI API in Chrome 43, web developers have been able to send and receive MIDI messages, allowing bi-directional communication between browser and external music devices, such as keyboards, samplers or drum machines. The ... more

Elm in the real world

Elm is a beginner friendly functional reactive programming language for building web frontend. Choosing Elm for a customer project made my job nicer than ever and helped maintain project velocity during months of development. This boils down to two things, ... more

Make it move, make it bounce

Plenty of interesting stuff that comes up while working on a neverending series of everyday projects remains hidden. With time, designers like myself tend to forget some of the useful tips discovered while looking for another fresh and dazzling design ... more

Trying out ClojureScript

The Christmas holidays are a perfect time to try and learn new things. A few weeks ago, I helped organize a Code Club session with my colleague Tiina Romu at the English School. She had created an exercise to draw snowflakes in the Python in Browser ... more

Breaking news: WWWeeklies is now a public event

The web frontend competence at Futurice has a long-standing history of organizing weekly internal meetups. We are now upping the ante and making these meetups open for all ! Sign up for the WWWeeklies on Meetup » What's it about The WWWeeklies is an ... more

Code camp '15 - conquering the galaxy

Our previous code camp two years ago was very succesful. This May a total of 24 Futuriceans from all our sites navigated their way to the island of Norrkullalandet in Sipoo, just east from Helsinki, for the next one. At our previous camp the focus was ... more