Optional is not your domainI've gone through several phases in the way I represent absence in Java. At first, I returned null. Then I discovered Optional, and started returning it everywhere. It felt like progress, and it was. Sep 23 · 9 min readiwtyo.today
I thought I was learning SpringWhy did you say yes? When I joined Sportradar, there wasn't much work for me yet. I was still discovering the company, the team and the product. One day, my team lead came to me. "We don't really havAug 3 · 4 min readiwtyo.today
Where engineering keeps taking my attentionIf you had asked me ten years ago what becoming a better engineer meant, my answer would have been surprisingly simple. Something like: Learn new frameworks. Write cleaner code. Discover better archiJul 12 · 4 min readiwtyo.today
Understanding CSS Specificity: A Concise GuideToday at work, we encountered a common but often overlooked challenge in web development: CSS specificity. We had a global font-size definition that, to our surprise, wasn't being overridden by a more recent class style. Upon inspecting the CSS in th...Jan 26, 2024 · 2 min readiwtyo.today
Migrating from Javax to JakartaIntroduction Transitioning from javax to jakarta namespaces is pivotal in the Java EE ecosystem, especially when maintaining or lacking control over javax libraries. The transformer-maven-plugin facilitates this migration. In this article, we'll gene...Oct 4, 2023 · 3 min readiwtyo.today
