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Thoughts on the Climate crisis and being a Developer (Advocate)

It's quite clear by now that we humans have a strong impact on the Earth's climate. As a new developer advocate, my impact on the world around me is something I have in the back of my head pretty much every day. I want to go with you through some of this today.

kotlin

My KotlinConf experience

My experience and impressions attending KotlinConf a couple weeks back. And some thoughts on the future of Kotlin.

apis

Replacing Postman with the Jetbrains HTTP Client

This blog shows a way to use the Jetbrains HTTP Client to replace Postman and test third party APIs, share requests and even run them in CI all of that within minutes!

community

2022 retro, and what's up

This post is a recap of 2022, and a look into what's coming in 2023. In short, Devrel is amazing and doesn't require flying, I became a GDE and we grew over 160kg of vegetables this year!

apis

A tale of fixing a tiny OpenAPI bug

I found and fixed a tiny bug in OpenAPI, learnt about the library, jackson and git in the process. In short, get and set methods are visited by Jackson even when they aren't used anywhere in the code! Be careful how you name your methods 🔥

java

Getting started with OpenAPI Generators : tips and tricks

In this article, I'm sharing some tips and tricks on how to get productive with creating OpenAPI generators. How to run and debug, create your own easily and more

dei

Things I've learnt about inclusion in Tech

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!).

development

Why I still take notes on paper

Why I still take notes on paper every day. Let's dive a bit into why it works for me, in no particular order.

kotlin

Kotlin Data Classes, shallow copies and immutability

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

elm

Easy dependency integration in Kotlin/JS using the "Elm ports" technique

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!

kotlin

Tips and tricks using Hibernate and SQLite with Kotlin

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.

kotlin

Measuring time and durations in Kotlin

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.

kotlin

Kover : Code Coverage plugin for Kotlin

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.

hacktoberfest

Automatically add the Hacktoberfest tag to all of your GitHub repositories

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

gaming

On gaming, addiction and working around the Cold Turkey blocker

Thoughts about gaming addiction, and a few ways to go around Cold Turkey Blocker

communities

Luck only comes to the lucky ones

Luck only comes to the lucky ones. Let's see how that is true, and how to create your own luck

kotlin

Building Command Line Interfaces with Kotlin using picoCLI

In this article, we'll look into use cases where CLIs are a great idea. We'll also dive into best practises, and discover one of the most used library for CLIs in the JVM world : picoCLI.

epaper

Making your own e-paper dashboard for home from scratch!

In this post, I describe the complete setup I used to create my epaper and raspberry pi based dashboard running on node.

wfh

Using the best webcam available on the market : An epoccam and camo comparison

Comparing Elgato's Epoccam and Reincubate's Camo to get the best webcam setup on the market.

development

A simple setup to use LitElement with tailwindcss for small projects

A simple setup to use LitElement with tailwindcss for small projects.

medium

I really hate the Medium experience

I hate the Medium paywalls and you should too

google sheets

Fetching Google Calendar data without OAuth by using Google Scripts

A quick, simple and unsecure way to fetch your calendar events from Google with the help of Google Scripts and without having to use OAuth.

adventofcode

Advent of Code Day 5 : Binary representations and data classes val inits

How I solved Advent of Code day 5, live, and what I learned from it.

adventofcode

Advent of Code Day 4 : Kotlin TIL - require, flatMapIndexed!

How I solved Advent of Code day 4, live, and what I learned from it.

kotlin

Advent of Code Day 3 : Kotlin TIL - drop, filterIndexed

How I solved Advent of Code day 3, live, and what I learned from it.