My name is Julien Lengrand-Lambert. I'm a Developer Advocate living in the Netherlands. I love creating communities that make people and products shine. Welcome!
In this post, I'll discuss things I see, and things I try to do to "do my part" (for the lack of a better word) at work and outside of it. I'm not an example, but maybe you can find inspiration yourself (and teach me some more!).
Why I still take notes on paper every day. Let's dive a bit into why it works for me, in no particular order.
Are Kotlin data classes immutable? And does the copy method create shallow or deep copies of my class instances? Let's have a look together
Just starting with Kotlin/JS, I found it hard to use large NPM libraries like Firebase. But my past experiences with Elm and its system of ports helped me find a suitable solution. Let's dive into it!
This blog exposes some of the things I've found out while implementing my project. Maybe they're useful for someone else too :). Kotlin, Hibernate and SQLite doesn't seem to be a very present combination online as of now.
The DurationAPI is coming out of experimental stage, and offers a nice DSL to easily work with Time durations (duh!). If offers the obvious but also nice extra goodies like coercions and ISO/ String conversions and is notably used to calculate processing time.
Kover is a code coverage tool for Kotlin. It's still in incubator phase but I took it for a spin and it is already very useful as part of local or CI workflows! In this article I go through the setup and some of my favourite goodies of the tool.
I created a small kotlin utility that finds all the repositories you are an owner of, and add the Hacktoberfest topic to them :) and learnt a few things
Thoughts about gaming addiction, and a few ways to go around Cold Turkey Blocker