Nicolas Fränkel

One of the most important concepts to master in Rust is ownership and borrowing. Tons and tons of...

Nicolas Fränkel

I decided to stop using Twitter, but for my own content and supporting Ukraine against its barbarian...

Nicolas Fränkel

I have been learning Rust for a couple of years, and using it for pet projects and demos alike....

Nicolas Fränkel

I recently read and shared You’re Wasting Time in Java Without These 10 Libraries. I commented on it...

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This week, I received an interesting task: dusting off a legacy Java application. The application...

Nicolas Fränkel

Fun fact, I thought I had already written this post, but when I wanted to reference it, I found out...

Nicolas Fränkel

I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a thing...

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I'm currently working on a software designed more than a decade ago. It offers a plugin architecture:...

Nicolas Fränkel

In OOP, objects collaborate. The initial idea of collaboration, first found in Smalltalk, was for...

Nicolas Fränkel

Two years ago, my friend José Paumard held the talk "Concurrent and Asynchronous Programming : Loom"...

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Last week, I described a gloomy situation: all public TLS certificate providers log your requests. By...

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I recently learned about a new way to leak your privacy, and it's a scary one. Before going further,...

Nicolas Fränkel

You learn by comparing to what you already know. I was recently bitten by assuming Rust worked as...

Nicolas Fränkel

Creational patterns were first described in the famous Gang of Four's Design Patterns. The book...

Nicolas Fränkel

I've quite a lengthy experience with GitHub workflows, but not up to the point where I can claim I'm...

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When I first started attending conferences, I diligently tried to write down notes and publish them....

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Last week, I described several approaches to OpenTelemetry on the JVM, their requirements, and their...

Nicolas Fränkel

You may know I'm a big fan of OpenTelemetry. I recently finished developing a master class for the...

Nicolas Fränkel

Git has become a fundamental part of our developers' daily routine that it's hard to remember our...

Nicolas Fränkel

Pattern matching is a major feature in software development. While pattern matching applies in...

Nicolas Fränkel

This post will be short, but I hope it prove to be useful. My home is getting more and more...

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With years, I accumulated devices on my local network, which in general run on Linux. I meticulously...

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For the last two weeks, I've kicked the tires of OpenRewrite. At first, I created a recipe to move...

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I started discovering OpenRewrite last week by writing a Kotlin recipe that moves Kotlin files...

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I've been eying OpenRewrite for some time, but I haven't had time to play with it yet. In case you...

Nicolas Fränkel

Rust offers different ways to initialize compile time-initialized variables. Recently, I had to...

Nicolas Fränkel

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I recently acquired Netatmo smart radiator valves to manage my rooms' temperature remotely. I'm not...

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I continue to take care of my Home Assistant. This week, I replaced my original setup with Cloudflare...

Nicolas Fränkel

In the early days of IT, we manually configured servers–each one a precious snowflake, lovingly...