Dazed & Confused

Pun totally intended. 😜 TLDR; The database landscape often presents a false choice: you either use heavily normalized relational databases or document…

This setup works, but a bit complicated.

Last week I had the pleasure of talking at JavaZone.

In May I had the honour of talking about KTor and HTMX at KotlinConf in Copenhagen.

Over time I have worked a lot with continuous delivery and tried to explain why it is such an important concept.

TL;DR: Synchronised state between multiple browser windows.

Read on for a solution to loading environment variables from a .env file.

TL;DR – Create a custom proxy to make sure you know how the old system behaves and can transition off it in a controlled manner.

Sometimes it feels like I have been yak shaving for the last 20 years.

Logs are an essential tool for monitoring and observing system behavior in test and especially production.

I recently stumbled upon HTMX and found the concepts really interesting.

Quick tip if you’re using Intellij IDEA and not every framework is supported: Add the annotations dependency.

This is a re-post of an original Medium article.

And I think maybe it’s time to bring things back here.

It’s time to start writing kick ass CLIs instead of hacking scripts!

I have lost count of how many hours, days and even weeks I’ve wasted because of un-trusted self-signed/generated certificates in my time as a developer.

A little while ago I summarized some great articles and experiences with microservices.

After switching to Linux as my main operating system I was expecting problems.

I’ve been working with Microservices for the last couple of years.

I thought I’d update my list of recommended applications.

When I started doing Puppet development I was looking for a nice way to do testing.

Wiki’s are a great technology.

I’m doing something of a tour of the in-house PaaS world at the moment.

I have been looking into differnet in-house PaaS solutions lately.

I try to extract stuff into functions both for re-use and encapsulation.

When handling parameters from the command line I usually want one or two parameters to have a default value.

Part of what I find really hard with Bash scripts is encapsulation and error handling.

I’m currently working on automating our deployment with Bash scripts.

Spotify has been released in the US, and I´m really hoping for their success.

So a lot has changed since I posted an update to my Essential Android Applications.