My eldest kid – 11 at the time of writing – has been into Minecraft for some time now. I tried to motivate him on various ages to do some kinda programming with me. We tried Scratch, Lego Mindstorms (one of the few sets that is gathering dust) and a couple of other things. We […]
Everyone and their dog is posting their Spotify Wrapped thing. It’s 2020, i still don’t have Spotify, but despite my increasing age, I still listen to a ton of music. When I started to work remotely back in 2018, one of the biggest perks for me was – apart from not having to commute – […]
A couple of days ago I sent out this tweet here: I wonder if the speed or elasticity gain by GraalVM native applications can make up for all the work put into frameworks to make them run on Substrate. — Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) September 11, 2020 This tweet caused quite some reaction and with the […]
A couple of weeks ago, I received a paper copy of “Hacking with Spring Boot 2.3 – Reactive Edition” by Greg L. Turnquist. Greg sent this copy to me free of charge for a review. Thanks for that! I’m happy about the opportunity to read a new Spring Boot book after I published one myself […]
In my role as a Spring library developer at Neo4j, I spent the last year – together with Gerrit on creating the next version of Spring Data Neo4j. Our name so far has been Spring Data Neo4j⚡️RX but in the end, it will be SDN 6. Anyway. Part of the module is our Neo4j Cypher-DSL. […]