Here is the audio, video, and transcript, along with almost thirty minutes of audience questions, filmed in Miami. Here is the episode summary: Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Pete … | Continue reading
Here I am at my non-work computer, the one I use for Zoom meetings and such Just a brief update for you, and to break the silence. It's going pretty well. I did more physical work yesterday than I have... | Continue reading
Learn how to find the date of Easter Sunday for the given year using three algorithms in Java. | Continue reading
Explore the skip and limit functionalities within MongoRepository. | Continue reading
I actually saw the original, handmade "Recombobulation Area" sign at the Milwaukee Airport when it was put up as a joke sixteen years ago. The signs (and the word) were the brainchild of Barry Bateman, the Director of Mitchell Airport.... Related Stories Lack of Postage Cloud of … | Continue reading
Learn how handling redirection correctly is essential for building robust web applications that interact with external resources. | Continue reading
Learn about overriding the toString() method and handling the potential null within. | Continue reading
Learn how to handle the symmetric substring expansion methods, taking into account the specific requirements such as input size and computational efficiency. | Continue reading
Learn how to download a file from S3 given a URL with Java and AWS SDK. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to customizing the logback.xml location. | Continue reading
Explore different ways of intercepting and adding custom headers for both server web requests and web client requests in Spring WebFlux | Continue reading
Discover the differences between PrintWriter's write() and print() methods. | Continue reading
Learn how to navigate through collections and arrays using the Iterator inteface and forEach() method. | Continue reading
Spring has sprung, my brothers, my sisters. On this side of the Equator. (Not forgetting you Bruces and Sheilas down under.) Every Spring I dismantle and repack the camera bag, charge the battery and the spare battery, make sure there's... Related Stories COVID in the U.S. (OT) O … | Continue reading
Learn how to perform complex-number operations in Java. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to handling polymorphic structures with Gson. | Continue reading
...Well, just my office. I decided to move it from the front porch to the back room. More space, and I get perfect internet signal back there ever since I bought my Deco 6E mesh system, which has given me... Related Stories Lack of Postage Cloud of Locusts Open Mike: Replying to … | Continue reading
Most people like sports. At least a few sports. A few of our readers don't care for any of them. I also understand that sports you don't care about can leave you cold; I have an American friend who's way... | Continue reading
TOP World HQ was right at the edge of totality yesterday (some sort of joke is begging to be made there, but I don't know what it is). But as luck would have it, Sunday was sunny and clear, and... Related Stories COVID in the U.S. (OT) Open Mike: The Princess Vanishes eBay Return … | Continue reading
One problem with standing desks. They break. However, they are truly a luxury if, like me, you spend a lot of time at your desk. Half because of the intended purpose, which is to allow you to stand up and... Related Stories Open Mike: I Go To Wander and Hope (OT) Open Mike: Blue- … | Continue reading
Photography is 185 years, two months, and 29 days old as of today (Friday). Few technological advances have such clearly demarcated birthdays. A short, elegantly written account of the invention, from the mid-1820s to the fire at the diorama (you... Related Stories Examples of 'P … | Continue reading
Just out of curiosity, how often would you say you photograph with any of your lenses wide open? 1. Always 2. Often 3. When conditions indicate 4. I avoid it 5. Never You don't have to limit yourself to those... | Continue reading
Sorry for the lack of a post today (Wednesday). I worked on one for three hours this morning, but upon review and the return of objectivity, I realized it was...pretty bad. Then I had to consider reworking it entirely, and... Related Stories Cloud of Locusts Open Mike: Replying t … | Continue reading
Explore different methods to obtain the path to a resource within a Java JAR file. | Continue reading
Explore different options to convert a TemporalAccessor object to a LocalDate object in Java. | Continue reading
Speaking of DoF, a little story. A long time ago—well over a decade ago—I met with a photographer who brought to the meeting not a portfolio of photographs for me to look at, but notebooks filled with figures. He gave... Related Stories Never Assume You're Seeing All There Is to … | Continue reading
My apologies, but I've been sensitized. I was the editor of a technical photography magazine for six years. Depth-of-field (DoF) is a subject that is deeply beloved of wannabe photo-tech writers, and few things could create instantaneous dismay deep in... | Continue reading
Learn to check if an element is in a Set in Java. | Continue reading
When I was recovering from my heart procedure, which was supposed to take six weeks, I had to put my shirts and coats on backwards, because I wasn't allowed to raise my left arm during that time. I had not... Related Stories Open Mike: Those Wonderful Sit-Stand Desks Open Mike: B … | Continue reading
Learn how to send Spring Boot application logs to a Grafana Loki server. | Continue reading
Learn a few different ways to get the last n characters from a String. | Continue reading
Quick intro to Hibernate's @Struct annotation to create structured user-defined types. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to finding element by attribute in Selenium. | Continue reading
Learn how to take a Java collection of intervals and merge the overlapping ones. | Continue reading
Learn how to find map keys associated with duplicate values in Java. | Continue reading
Out with the RestTemplate (again), a look back, yes, back, at the just released Java 22 and forward at Java 23. And a solid piece on why we should fight against context-switching. | Continue reading
Learn how to use @Subselect to select entities not from a particular table but from a sub-select query. | Continue reading
Learn how to handle null values when converting Java objects to JSON. | Continue reading
Learn how to avoid ambiguous method calls in the specific context of the Mockito framework. | Continue reading
A collection of tutorials on Java Arrays | Continue reading
I would be remiss if I were not to mention that "punctum," apart from being a coined word with a conscientious and earnest definition, is also a signifier. As such, it's actually one of the biggest clichés in photography writing.... Related Stories Punctum Def A Great Article Abo … | Continue reading
Learn how to implement Saga Pattern in a microservices architecture with Orkes Conductor. | Continue reading
Learn about creating a prototype-scoped bean with runtime arguments in Spring. | Continue reading
Learn how an InputStreamReader builds on an InputStream to assist when working with streams of characters. | Continue reading
Explore a few techniques for retrieving lists of entities from a database using Hibernate | Continue reading
By far the coolest thing about blogging, at least in my personal experience, is that you learn something as the result of almost every post. For example, when I wrote about appliances this week—appliances, of all things—we heard from Rob,... Related Stories Punctum Def Open Mike: … | Continue reading
Dwarkesh brought me to the very good Sizzling Pot King, 139 8th St, San Francisco, genuine Hunan food and yes I have been to Changsha. Don’t walk there though, take an Uber or better yet a Waymo. Dwarkesh was kind enough to call me one for the trip back to the hotel. When I asked … | Continue reading
Due to proximity and also personal experience, this has been a shocking event for me. Here is one good exchange on what happened. The post Hacker News thread on the Baltimore Key Bridge appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to RAD. I had Captain Murphy for Intr … | Continue reading