A practical tour of the until loop: syntax, when it reads better than while, and five real-world examples for waiting on services, files, ports, retries, and background jobs.
Blog posts tagged "software development"
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A simple pattern for storing structured records in a Bash array and splitting them with IFS.
A before-and-after comparison showing how Bruce turns 20+ lines of JCA boilerplate into clean, readable code for digital signatures in Java.
How to post to Mastodon using just an HTTP client
Bruce is a Java library that simplifies cryptography operations, making it easy for developers to implement secure encryption, decryption, and hashing in their applications.
A reflection on managing pressure and anxiety in software development, and how to maintain quality while meeting deadlines.
A Matrix-style screensaver for the Commodore 64, written in C using the cc65 toolkit.
A Matrix-style screensaver implementation for Commodore 64 written in 6502 assembly, featuring multiple display modes and interactive controls, inspired by the legendary xmatrix screensaver.
An example of working with time series data and CompletableFuture in Java, covering air quality index calculation with concurrent data retrieval.
Most issues in software development usually arise from poor, inconsistent knowledge of the domain at hand. A topic apparently as simple as time representation, serialization and management can easily cause a number of problems both to the neophyte and to the experienced programmer.
Complete guide for writing effective log messages in Java: best practices for debugging, production monitoring, exception handling, and configuration of modern logging frameworks.