The sad truth is the better we get at writing code, the less fun it becomes. We learn about the SOLID principles, immutability, abstraction, composition, and maintainable code. But when we apply these techniques in a cu... (more…)

Recently, I've discovered this guide which walks you through implementing a toy ray tracer from scratch. I took the implementation written in Clojure by Jeaye Wilkerson and wrote my own in Java to ... (more…)

Java utilities for working with CompletionStages. Contribute to IBM/java-async-util development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

As of Java 14, the 'instance of' pattern match has entered preview state. JEP305... (more…)

I’ve been building enterprise Java web apps since servlets were created. In that time the Java ecosystem has changed a lot but sadly many enterprise Java developers are stuck in some very painful and inefficient ways of doing things. In my travels I conti... (more…)