I have one shiny mechanical keyboard I use on my daily job, under Windoooze and Linux bash

When I switch to my super-powered Mac on weekend, my muscle memory gets hurt because I need to switch sequence for Copy/Past keybindings, and also other minor shortcuts.

In the last year I did a lot of job interviews for frontend developers. Normally I ask to write a some codes, using some site like https://codesandbox.io or site with limited functionalities like https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_java_compiler
Because I am a Java hard-core sw-architect, my ReactJS questions are rather easy.

Hi, it was a very pleasant surprise to find out my maze demo code on the Commander X16 Web emulator. As you can image it was done collecting example on a popular site called 10print.org and it is nice because you can run it on possibly all Commodore 8bit computers (from PET to C/128 and to CommanderX16 too!). By the way the emulator is worth a try: for more example take a look to the official GitHub demo repo

I am playing to Divinity: Original Sin II  (D:OS2) which is the game done before Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3) by Larian Studios

BG3 is a success despite its launch was anticipated in August to avoid head-to-head competition Starfield. If we compare the success of  BG3 with CyberPunk2077 launch failure, I think we can learn something about software developing PLANNING.

Divinity games are a tactical game with a lot of freedom, you can take things, combine them, and solve quests with different approaches (brute forces, talks with different paths,  etc). For instance you can try to open a door with a key, with a burglar kit, or bashing it until it is destroyed (more long but feasible).

There is very handy feature of SpringBoot which is called Dev tools. Dev tools enable hot reloading of spring-boot- based application every time your IDE recompile the code.

Because Spring Boot is often used with Microservices in mind, the reload is quick, and quite seamless.

I love the super professional Changelogs you see in a lot of open source project.

Git-chglog is a Golang program you can run inside docker, to generate very professional change logs.

It works by collecting git comments with special keywords (like “Fix”, “Feature” and so on) and  in the last version is also feature a JIRA integration can further simplify your work

There is a funny article called “I’m OK; The Bull Is Dead” I want to use as incipit for this post.

The Last week I went in a meeting about flipping a BUY/SELL direction involving three services A -> B -> C. The initial B spec was right, but it was supposed to be wrong, someone (A) asked a change, and then it raised a complain on C. The entire meeting was a circula discussion on how we could fix it (just a revert of the fix?), why it was done in that way, etc.

God summons Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Gates to his office and tells them: “I have called you to announce the end of the world: it has been set by me for midnight on December 31, '95. Go and communicate the good news to the world.”

Yeltsin gathers the Duma and says: “Dear comrades, I have two bad news to give you: the first is that God exists, the second that the end of the world has been set for December 31, 95.”

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