@romxdev

Software engineer with impostor syndrome

Remote
Joined May 2021
I think we watched WALL-E, thought the little robot was cute, and completely missed the warning.
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We got virtual threads before we got a built-in JSON parser
The JDK is getting its own JSON API 🤩
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Every feature flag should have an owner and an expiration date.
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My cats wake up every morning with absolutely no idea what a deadline is. I envy them sometimes.
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You know nothing about introverts
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I used to get genuinely excited about new AI model releases. Now I can barely keep track of which model I'm supposed to be excited about this week.
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What's the oldest dependency in your production app that nobody wants to upgrade?
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I should really stop checking my phone first thing in the morning.
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Sometimes I open X, scroll for five minutes, close it, and somehow feel like I've been in a crowded room.
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Nice walkthrough from Ted showing why it's worth looking at host metrics alongside application metrics.
Your Spring Boot API is healthy. No errors. Yet requests jump from 3–5 ms to ~25 ms. Is it your code, the JVM, or a busy VPS? I recreated the slowdown and used application + host metrics in StatLite to find the cause. pvrlabs.xyz/articles/api-slo…
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I have two cats and neither of them seems particularly impressed by the fact that I have a job.
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I'm curious how many developers now ask AI about a bug before they've even looked at the logs.
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I've been using Spring for years and I still occasionally discover some utility class that could have saved me an hour of work.
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Somehow the hardest part of starting work is starting work.
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Today was quiet. I needed that.
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Sunday has this weird ability to feel both completely free and somehow already occupied by Monday.
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Good morning. Today's plan is mostly "see what happens".
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What would make you choose Quarkus or Micronaut over Spring Boot for a new JVM backend today?
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