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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I will admit it right now: I like to small talk, even at work.

Italian meetings are time-stealer nightmares.

So I have developed three simple rules, for my remote work:

• Pretend and provide a meeting Agenda or at least a meaningful subject
• Space out meeting with at least 15 minutes between them, to be able to prepare them
• Try to be very time boxed, and alert when 15 minutes remaining (for Italian guys, 30 minutes :) If you present, be very clear and ask confirmation, because guys sometimes does not listen to you or play with web browser. Speak slowly if needed.

On these days I stumbled upon Forth, a 1970 programming language which is quite similar to HP48 internal programming language.

Like the HP48 language, Forth uses RPN, it is stack based and have some success for being tiny and easy to implement.

For a 6502 Forth compiler you can refer to https://github.com/piotr-wiszowaty/foco65

Do you STILL love taking notes by hand? I have created different types of composition notebook, even retro-style one, inspired by MOS6502, with Sprite Editor sheets, and some nice goodies. Give them a try!

Do you STILL love taking notes by hand? I have created different types of composition notebook, even retro-style one, inspired by MOS6502, with Sprite Editor sheets, and some nice goodies. Give them a try!

Below a selection of screenshot from my composition notebook, called The Retro Notebook: you can click on the image below to get a larger one.