Shine with Gleam
31/08/2024

I have been programming for almost 22 years now professionally (for fun since 1995 or so) and I still enjoy it. What I also enjoy is finding new to ...


Why Nix?
17/08/2024

As a compulsive distro-hopper and programmer who likes to try new languages a lot of my time is spent on setting up new systems and packages. Usual ...


Why Kotlin?
27/04/2024

This is another short post simply because this is an opinion and not a huge topic. I am working with Java again for a while and Java 21 does make m ...


Virtual Threads on Kotlin
27/01/2024

So this is a short post. JDK 21 released recently with a huge feature - "Virtual Threads". I will not go into the details of Virtual Threads but ba ...


Reactive composition in Java using Spring / Micronaut
16/09/2023

Introduction

Back in the day I did a lot of Java (2002-2010), it was the de-facto technology for building applications specially since the ...


Composition, currying & state machines
13/07/2023

One of my core philosophies is to build software systems which are more or less "data transformers" e.g. our code provides a descr ...


Function composition with ClojureScript & Node
04/10/2022

We have talked a lot about functional composition in the last few posts. As I look at Clojure I feel it captures the best of what we hold dear in f ...