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24 Jul 2025 Macbook Pro Insomnia
03 Apr 2025 200 dives and counting
22 Feb 2025 Cloud Run Job with arguments
16 May 2024 On Azure
07 Mar 2024 Migrating from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run with terraform
26 Jan 2024 Fearless concurrency with Rust, cats, and a few Raspberry PIs
12 Jan 2024 Building a cat litter box reminder with Rust
16 Nov 2023 On pinning and isolating CPU cores
04 Nov 2022 Rust Development for the Raspberry Pi on Apple Silicon
11 Aug 2022 Switching to Hugo after 17 years of WordPress
12 Oct 2021 Programming Languages
01 May 2021 Hey
25 Apr 2021 Tour of Temporal: Performance
15 Apr 2021 Akka Raspberry PI demos
12 Apr 2021 Tour of Temporal: Welcome to the Workflow
26 Mar 2021 Smartphone Detox
08 Mar 2021 Disciplines for getting out of the stream
06 Mar 2021 When not to save money
23 Oct 2020 Three key findings from ten years of home-office
30 Apr 2020 10000 nodes and beyond with Akka Cluster and Rapid
03 Dec 2019 Tour of Akka Typed: Cluster Singleton and Routers
09 Nov 2019 Tour of Akka Typed: Cluster Sharding
28 Oct 2019 One step closer: exploiting locality in Akka Cluster based systems
07 Oct 2019 Tour of Akka Typed: Event Sourcing
05 Sep 2019 Tour of Akka Typed: supervision and signals
07 Aug 2019 Tour of Akka Typed: Message Adapters, Ask Pattern and Actor Discovery
11 Jul 2019 Tour of Akka Typed: Protocols and Behaviors
17 Jun 2019 Optimizing CI build times for Scala projects
07 Jun 2019 Why I’m still using a MacBook Pro Late 2013 in 2019
02 May 2019 Raspberry PI Akka Cluster LED strips
31 Dec 2018 2018: year in review
06 Aug 2018 Akka anti-patterns: too many actors
03 Aug 2018 Tour of Akka Cluster
20 Jul 2018 Akka anti-patterns: Java serialization
30 May 2018 Akka anti-patterns: stateless actors
19 Apr 2018 A quick tour of build tools in Scala
23 Mar 2018 Tour of Akka Cluster – Testing with the multi-node-testkit and a handful Raspberry PIs
20 Mar 2018 Akka anti-patterns: overusing ActorSelection
26 Feb 2018 Tour of Akka Cluster – Cluster Sharding
31 Jan 2018 Tour of Akka Cluster – Eventual consistency, persistent actors, message delivery semantics
03 Jan 2018 Tour of Akka Cluster – Akka Distributed Data
16 Nov 2017 Subsequent thoughts on fatherhood
26 Aug 2017 Akka anti-patterns: naming your application components after Akka concepts
26 Jul 2017 A new adaptive accrual failure detector for Akka
20 Jun 2017 Akka anti-patterns: trusting the network
08 Jun 2017 Akka anti-patterns: using remoting
05 Jun 2017 Tour de Lagom Part 1: Lagom and microservices
22 May 2017 Akka Streams – What is NotUsed all about
15 May 2017 Akka anti-patterns: blocking
08 May 2017 You got to hold the frame – Avoiding burnout or Lessons learned from six years as an independent consultant
10 Apr 2017 IntelliJ IDEA OS X Shortcuts on Ubuntu Gnome
21 Nov 2016 Akka anti-patterns: being out of touch with the hardware
31 Aug 2016 Akka anti-patterns: logging (the wrong way)
23 Aug 2016 Akka anti-patterns: too many actor systems
16 Aug 2016 Akka anti-patterns: race conditions
09 Aug 2016 Akka anti-patterns: flat actor hierarchies or mixing business logic and failure handling
02 Aug 2016 Akka anti-patterns: shared mutable state
15 Jul 2016 The reality of writing a technical book
14 Jun 2016 The microservices marathon
19 Apr 2016 Akka Cluster, Java and the Raspberry PI 3 Model B
07 Mar 2016 The one Play Framework productivity tip you should know about
25 Feb 2016 Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 374 easy steps
13 Nov 2015 5 years of Scala and counting – debunking some myths about the language and its environment
06 Nov 2015 A quick tour of JSON libraries in Scala
16 Oct 2015 Initial thoughts on fatherhood
27 May 2015 The Art of Meaningful Programming
27 Jan 2015 Reactive Play
30 Dec 2014 Generation Javascript
23 Apr 2014 A handful Akka techniques
04 Feb 2014 A quick tour of relational database access with Scala
21 Dec 2013 Java2Days Sofia 2013
16 Nov 2013 Tips & tricks for setting up a Play 2 project
26 Oct 2013 Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice, part 3
24 Oct 2013 Java Klassentreffen 2013: Scala Introduction slides
21 Oct 2013 Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice, part 2
17 Oct 2013 Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice, part 1
20 Sep 2013 Scala with SublimeText
01 Aug 2013 How to read the Play session from AngularJS
28 Jul 2013 The case for document-oriented databases
08 Jul 2013 CRUD trait for Slick models in the Play! framework
14 Jun 2013 Quickly open errors in your IDE when developing Play applications
04 Jun 2013 How to disable the Shift + F10 “slow motion” animation on OS X and reclaim the keyboard shortcut
03 Jun 2013 Java impressions after 2 years of abstinence
25 Apr 2013 One week on Tenerife
09 Apr 2013 Dynamic multi-modular SBT project
26 Mar 2013 Multi-modular development with Play 2.1
26 Oct 2012 Activating logging in test mode in Play 2.0.x
18 Nov 2011 MongoDB-based Cache for Play 1.2.x and Play-Scala
01 Nov 2011 Writing custom de/serializers for Jerkson
16 Sep 2011 Play! Scala and JSON
23 Mar 2011 Selenium IDE plugin for the Play! framework
11 Feb 2011 Information Retrieval
15 Dec 2010 Deploying a GWT application as OSGi module with Apache Karaf and Maven
08 Sep 2010 Debugging ANT tasks in IntelliJ IDEA
01 Apr 2010 Early rising
01 Sep 2009 New CV
09 Apr 2009 How I stopped reading the news and feel much better now
09 Mar 2009 Following through with dreams in rough times
14 Sep 2008 The cost of simplicty in technology
14 Feb 2008 The pain of configuration and ideas for making it a bit more bearable
30 Jan 2008 Twitter, geolocalisation and pervasive games – mixing virtual and real life
19 Jan 2008 Reset

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