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Weekly digest 2022-45

11-Nov-22

Tja, it had to happen at some point: Twitter is dying, I need a new old outlet. I have now this but also this After thinking it for a while now: I am more angry at Musk than I ever thought I would be. Twitter has been a tremendous source of joy, friends and real […]

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Review: DevOps Tools for Java Developers

13-Sep-22

Note: Both JFrog and O’Reilly sent me a paper copy of DevOps Tools for Java Developers for review (or my reading pleasure, or hopefully both). The copies came with no strings attached and this article is my honest opinion. The book is written by Ixchel Ruiz, Melissa McKay, Stephen Chin and Baruch Sadogursky. 3 of […]

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How to become an Open Source committer?

03-Jul-22

A couple of days ago I was asked above questions: “How to become an Open Source committer?” I think the answer might be interesting to other as well, so I am sharing it here as well. At some point I wrote a GitHub README.md, which you can read over there: github.com/michael-simons. I think it gives […]

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Winding down 2021

20-Dec-21

It’s late December and I am winding down with 2021, which was pretty much 2020 too, while looking skeptical into actual 2022. I will come up with a personal review after I am done with the #Rapha500 and will focus here on what I found out to be great in 2021 work wise (aka programming […]

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