A Java geek

If you have built an application with an interactive map, you know what you are in for.

While searching for my ancestors, I had to access data from many different websites.

A URL is a name, and names get reused.

I started with a simple task: I needed an AI agent to help me compile decision records, structured documents that capture why a team chose option A over B, using the open-source MADR format.

I got a lot of feedback on my post AI-assisted genealogy, some good, some not so good.

Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d’Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein, respectively Italy and Germany.

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My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors.

Alice calls the order service.

My current company has settled on using Gradle.

The constraint system stops a bad call before it leaves the JVM.

I’ve been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already.

The IoT/IIoT world has a data model problem and the concept of Digital Twin has made this issue more important.

In Part 1, the minimal deployment showed constraints traveling with the proxy: authentication, encryption, hardened deserialization, all declared in configuration and enforced at the call boundary.

I keep coming back to java.util.ServiceLoader.

Last year, I motorized the rolling shutters on the southern façade of my apartment.

The more distributed a system, the harder it is to secure.

I started as a Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons.

There is an evergreen debate in the Java world: should you always use BigDecimal for money?

In the first post of this series, I focused on the project foundations: what should I do to create a video from photos taken from the same position year after year?

Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways.

In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years.

I live close to nature.

Good engineers make decisions based on data.

I continue to experiment with AI in the context of software engineering.

I noticed some time ago that three Mastodon features had stopped working on my blog.