JVM timing options
For as long as I have been coding in Java, we have had requirements to measure the execution time of blocks of code. While the current good …
Nicolas Frankel
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Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo... or not
Most of my blog posts are lessons learned. I'm trying to achieve something, and I document the process I used to do it. This one is one of …
Nicolas Frankel
1,572 viewsFrom a JAR to a full-fledged MacOS app
A couple of years ago, I developed a small Kotlin GUI to help me rename my files in batch. I actually created it with different JVM …
Feedback on checked exceptions and lambdas
I got a lot of interesting feedback on Checked exceptions and lambdas. Let's start with my own: after writing the post, I realized I had …
Checked exceptions and lambdas
Java's checked exceptions were a massive improvement over C's error-handling mechanism. As time passed and experience accumulated, we …
Nicolas Frankel
1 viewsFrom Cloudflare Zero-trust to Tailscale
I have spent some time last year implementing Cloudflare Tunnels on my Home Assistant and my Synology NAS. On Mastodon, I had not one but …
2025 in retrospective
From the beginning, the focus of this blog has been technical, very rarely organizational. I broke this unwritten rule once in 2015. I began …
YOW! 2025
I have been eyeing the YOW! conferences for probably more than a decade. They occur in Australia, and feature top industry experts. I was …
My second Cloudflare Tunnel
I decided to stop using Twitter, but for my own content and supporting Ukraine against its barbarian invaders, I understood the contemporary …
My first real Rust project
I have been learning Rust for a couple of years, and using it for pet projects and demos alike. Working for a JVM-heavy company, I thought …