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 …
Nicolas Frankel
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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 …
XML Schema Validation 1.1 in Java
This week, I received an interesting task: dusting off a legacy Java application. The application analyzes specific XML files in proprietary …
Choosing a dependency
Fun fact, I thought I had already written this post, but when I wanted to reference it, I found out that I didn't. In this post, I'd like to …
Comparing transitive dependency version resolution in Rust and Java
You learn by comparing to what you already know. I was recently bitten by assuming Rust worked as Java regarding transitive dependency …
Asciidoc over Markdown
I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a thing as WYSIWYG capabilities at the time. …
Transactions and ThreadLocal in Spring
Though I used Spring transactions a lot via the @Transactional annotation, I never opened thought about looking at their implementation.
Testing the untestable
I'm currently working on a software designed more than a decade ago. It offers a plugin architecture: you can develop a plugin whose …
On dependencies in objects
In OOP, objects collaborate. The initial idea of collaboration, first found in Smalltalk, was for object A to send a message to object B. …
Privacy for subdomains: the solution
Last week, I described a gloomy situation: all public TLS certificate providers log your requests. By browsing through the subdomains, one …