The 2nd Worst Dev on Planet Earth

Okay, first things first, what is an AI agent?

Introduction Back in time when I was only a Java backend developer, my days were pretty straightforward.

Resources AutoFocus on Spotify British Academy of Sound Therapy Canon Europe Press Release 🙏 This article would not have been possible without the inspirational dialogues with my dear friend and ex-colleague, Andris Fajtai, who provided expert insights on…

🎒 Resources GitHub Repository for the Sample Project Bld - The Pure Java Build System RIFE2 - a Full-Stack Framework for Modern Java I came across Bld while searching for the perfect build tool for monorepos (spoiler: I haven’t found it yet).

👿 Console Logs: The Necessary Evil Logpoints have been a feature in VS Code since 2018, but I only discovered them recently.

🎒 Resources Ollama Continue Website Continue Extension for VS Code DeepSeek Coder on GitHub 📖 Introduction In the previous post, we saw how to set up a simple AI Assistant that can be run locally.

🎒 Resources Zed Continue Ollama CodeGemma on Hugging Face 📖 Introduction Creating your own local AI assistant isn’t as simple as signing up for a commercial service, but it’s manageable — especially with tools like Ollama.

🎒 Resources sqlcmd on Microsoft Learn go-sqlcmd GitHub repository Azure Data Studio 📖 Introduction I bet anyone who has worked with Microsoft SQL Server databases already knows sqlcmd.

I stumbled upon an article on LinkedIn recently: “The rise - and fall - of the software developer”.

🎒 Resources GitHub Repository for my Sandbox REST API Microsoft Kiota Kiota Java Extra Repository (Maven Plugin) Kiota Visual Studio Code Extension Previously, we’ve created a very minimalistic REST API using Spring Boot and the springdoc-openapi library.

🎒 Resources GitHub Repository for my Sandbox REST API OpenAPI Initiative OpenAPI Library for Spring Boot Online Swagger Editor The SDK Generation Dilemma You might wonder: why bother with programmatically generating SDK clients?

🎒 Resources GitHub Repository for Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline GitHub Repository for the iPhone Prices Scrapy Spider First Part of the Series: Introduction Second Part of the Series: Playing with Scrapy Shell Third Part of the Series: Creating a Scrapy Spider 👈…

🎒 Resources GitHub Repository for Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline GitHub Repository for the iPhone Prices Scrapy Spider First Part of the Series: Introduction Second Part of the Series: Playing with Scrapy Shell In the last part of this tutorial, we have explored…

🎒 Resources GitHub Repository for Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline GitHub Repository for the iPhone Prices Scrapy Spider First Part of the Series: Introduction In the first part of this tutorial, we have laid down the foundation of our web scraping project.

Introduction I would like to start a new series of posts called “Quick Tips”.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a web scraping project.

Scrolling through your social media feed nowadays, you’re bound to come across loads of posts about Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, and the like.

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