Everybody I know using Kubernetes is doing ingresses with ingress-nginx, but for those who don't know, its retirement was announced in November 2025. It's being replaced by the Kubernetes Gateway API! I wrote up a short post going over a few example setups! stevenpg.com/posts/guide-...
Spring keeps updating their tooling for making HTTP calls, with the latest iteration coming in Spring Boot 4 with optimizations to how you bootstrap RestClient objects, along with deprecating the old RestTemplate. I did a write up that I use daily as a reference now! stevenpg.com/posts/ultima...
Now that Java 25 is out, I did a little experimenting with the new Compact Object Headers feature from JEP 519. I wrote up a quick post with my findings and I'm pretty excited start toggling it on wherever I can to take advantage of the memory improvements! stevenpg.com/posts/should...
The second post in this series is a short and simplified overview of some HTML/CSS/JS. The real good stuff comes in the next post. That'll be all about doing react as a non-technical person!
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I completely agree, I was the loudest AI skeptic early on, but now I regularly let it generate UI components and tests. I'm very curious to see if and where it plateaus!
After trying to vibe-code a project as a senior developer, I talked with some non-devs who were asking a lot of questions about development from the context of using AI. So I started a short series trying to help answer those questions!
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I did a short writeup of my experience trying to "vibe code" a project I've had on hold for years stevenpg1.substack.com/p/building-a...
JLink is one of those things that I didn't even realize existed, and now that I understand it, I'll have to implement it for every Java application I can get edit access on.
I did a short write-up to use as a reference any time I add it to a project! stevenpg.com/posts/jlink-...
In support of my goal to find stuff I've forgotten faster by simply doing a write-up and demos on them myself, I wrote up an article on an insidious breaking change in Hibernate 6.6 that burned me quite a few times.
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Anytime I try to search for something and can't find a good reference, I try to solve the problem for myself and everyone after me! With that, here's a post I just wrote about a feature I requested from the Spring Cloud Streams team to help async message error handling!
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You guys aren’t going to believe this, but today I used a cable from my big box of old cables.
This is awesome, I just used the site to explain gps accuracy on mobile devices to an old college friend who didn't know why our group gps project back in senior year had inconsistent accuracy! Super cool
I was pretty resistant to it as well but I've found myself generating simple code and boilerplate more often, just to save a minute here and there! I've been using Claude.ai, but I didn't hear about free Copilot. I'll be giving it a try and compare!
With the release of Spring Boot 3.4.0 on 11/21/24, there's a new way to do OAuth2 API calls with Spring RestClient.
I wrote up a little reference page for myself, check it out if you haven't seen the new APIs yet! stevenpg.com/posts/spring...
Using Spring Boot with Testcontainers?
We've improved support so that your test setup is more lean. `@AutoConfigureTestDatabase` now detects containers and will automatically use that!
If you need to revert to the old behavior, set `replace=Replace.AUTO_CONFIGURED)` on the annotation.
Has anybody tried out the new pull request merge experience on #Github? It's pretty slick!
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why do i have to explain why i need a replacement work computer. is the phrase “i have a 2019 macbook air and it is december 2024” not enough
