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What skillOverrides controls, its four visibility states, and why it touches your own skills but not plugin skills

Turn a plugin on or off, and opt out of a project-enabled plugin on your own machine, using the enabledPlugins setting

What the enabledPlugins setting is, how its three states work, and why project scope can override your user scope

Senior developers write classes with one primary constructor

Why you should know when to add a plugin to a project VS when to add it to your user scope

Why senior developers never write a class without a constructor

Why senior developers think differently about classes

In-depth look at how to deal with whitespaces in Java like a true senior developer

Can Character.AI help Java programmers increase productivity?

How Java programmers can use ChatGPT to increase productivity (part 1)

How senior developers use type inference in Java

Why using Iterable in Java gives your callers a lot of freedom and flexibility

The easiest way to install Java 19 (OpenJDK 19) on Windows

The easiest way to install Java 19 (OpenJDK 19) on MacOS

The minimum every senior developer must know about sorting strings in Java

How senior developers know the really right tool for the job?

Why senior developers never prefix JUnit tests with the word test

The easiest way to install Java 18 (OpenJDK 18) on Windows

Leave finalization in the past!

How I taught my 7½ year old 4 bash commands in one hour

Write better Javadoc using code snippets (part 2)

The minimum every senior developer must know about UTF-8 by default in Java 18

Use Simple Web Server programmatically like a real senior developer

Use jwebserver like a pro

Write better Javadoc using code snippets (part 1)

How senior developers manage multiple JDKs with jEnv

The easiest way to install Java 18 (OpenJDK 18) on MacOS