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2025

Fixing Async Stack Traces

2024

Using Single Table Inheritance to Evolve Entities

2023

Immutability Doesn't Matter with useSES
Bitemporal Thoughts
Linear Tech Talk Notes
Vulcan.io Looks Amazing
Figma Is Not Actually Collaborative

2022

Can and Should Instead of Is and Get

2020

Always Separate User Intent

2019

Teaching TypeScript about GraphQL Default Resolvers
Hooks Don't Have To Be Functional
GraphQL Typed Root Pattern
Philosophy of Software Design Notes
Toyota Katas Notes

2018

Integration Test is a Useless Term
Mono vs. Project Repos? Hurray, software sucks
Avoid Using External Files in Tests
The Half-Truth of GRPC & GraphQL Consistency
GraphQL Seems Annoying For Mobile
Shape is a Better Term Than Object
I Forgot How Much I Don't Like Pull Requests
Skepticism About Record/Replay Tests
Thoughts on Go (from a JVM Programmer)
Is Haskell's Complexity Artificial?
Applying Virtual DOM to Systems Integrations
Stubs in TypeScript using Mapped Types
Variations on a State Machine
Are Classes and Prototypes that Different?
Micro Service Testing at Scale

2017

Using Given/When/Then For Tests
Dealing with Selenium API Gotchas
The Futility of Cross-System Integration Testing
Compassionate Code Reviews
Tools, Productivity, and Investing in Yourself
The Curse of Webapps Being Visual for TDD
Writing Emails Asking for Help
Gmail Filter Tips
Obsessively Simple Test Values

2016

First Principles
The One True Way Of Indentation
Staffing a Front-End Team
Stuck on a Dead Framework

2015

The Holy Grail of Database Testing
Using Byteman To Debug Logging
REST is Aging, GraphQL is the New Thing
MoreUnit Supports Custom Languages
Musings on Flatpack

2014

Spark Size Tracking
Trait Rules of Thumb
Moving to Gradle
jOOQ Went Commercial
From xmonad to i3 on Ubuntu 14.04
The Pain of Small Methods
JDK 1.8/1.7 Compatibility Gotcha
What I Would Remove from GWT--Basically Everything
Spark Report Patterns
Dependency Injection Thought Experiment
Copy & Extend, A Great Way To Learn
Can Java Be Good Enough?
Using Your Database as a Queue

2013

If you cherry pick, your branch model is wrong
Services Should Come with Stubs
East-Oriented Programming
Google's Build System is a Giant Maven Repo
Stay in the Language
What Makes Spark Exciting
DHH vs. Fowler

2012

Spark Test
High Level Assertions
Good Test, Bad Test
Scala Implicit Conversion with Tuples
Reinvent 2012 Bezos Notes
Reinvent 2012 Keynote Notes
Joist Execute Class
Strangeloop 2012--VoltDB
Brief Dependency Injection Skeptic
Aggregate Roots in SQL
Building Sane Rich User Interfaces
Screencasts in Linux
Tessell Gets Member Changed Events
Optional Folders in Eclipse
Faking at the Right Level
Politely Refactoring Code
Joist Snapshots, A 2nd-Level Cache Alternative
CSS Quirk, Collapsing Margins
How to Sanely Use Ivy's Artifact Tags
ErraiUI Initial Impression
Abstracting Types Across Domains
What's Wrong with a Schema?
Continually Improving Browser Technology
Joist Builder Defaults
Private Static Factory Method Chord
Joist, the Java ORM for Me

2011

todomvc in Tessell
Sane AJAX Testing in Selenium
Why No One Uses Scala's Structural Typing
A GWT Developer's Reaction to Dart
Modern Code Generation Talk
Command Query Responsibility Segregation with S3 and JSON
Framework-less Dependency Injection
Preferred Build Setup

2010

Why I'm a Static Typing Bigot
GWT Handler Registrations
Doubting GMail-style Loading Indicators
Joist Tip, Fast Database Resets
git workshop
Joist vs. Hibernate SQL
Collecting User Actions with GWT
Dammit, MySQL
Publishing to Maven Repos with Ivy
Joist/ORM Prefetching
Code Generation Is Not Evil
Why I Don't Like Mocks
GWT Seamless Deployments
gwt-mpv-apt 1.1
GWT View Generation
GWT MVP Tables
Lift Templating s/is/was a Joke
Moving an existing git repo into svn
git config
Caller-Side Structural Typing
Changing My Style

2009

Sprunge And Dropbox
Running ScalaTest Spec Tests from Eclipse
Port 80 to Port 8080
Bindgen 2.0 Released
Validation with Objects Instead Of Annotations
Scala Per-Instance Singletons
Achieving Durability
Dynamic Keywords
The IBM JDK is Awesome
Ivy is Useful
Old School Bell Trick
Grails Stacktraces
Boojay is Promising
JavaFX Decompiled
War-less Development with Jetty
NamedQuery Proposal

2008

Moving to GitHub Pages
NamedQuery Considered Stupid
More Evil Than Spring

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