Tutorial on Micronaut's annotated HTTP filters. | Continue reading
Learn about the "Could not create the Java Virtual Machine" error and how to solve it. | Continue reading
Learn how to use the Spring Cloud Function to develop Java applications and deploy them with Microsoft Azure Functions. | Continue reading
Learn how to use Amazon Textract to extract text from images in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to check if a StringBuilder is null or empty in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to retrieve available folders in a mail account using the IMAP protocol. | Continue reading
The Rockwell Museum in Corning. The architectural style is the colorfully named "Richardson Romanesque." Geoff Wittig and I went to the Rockwell on Thursday to see the William Wegman show. The Rockwell Museum, located in Corning, New York, in the... Related Stories Anyone Have An … | Continue reading
The Rockwell Museum in Corning. The architectural style is the colorfully named "Richardson Romanesque." Geoff Wittig and I went to the Rockwell yesterday to see the William Wegman show. The Rockwell Museum, located in Corning, New York, in the former... Related Stories Anyone Ha … | Continue reading
Learn how to enable the Spring Authorization Server's Dynamic Registration feature and use it from a Spring Security-based client application. | Continue reading
Learn about the basics of PGP, how to generate the PGP key pairs, and about PGP encryption and decryption in Java using the BouncyCastle API. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to extracting request payload from POST requests in Java servlets. | Continue reading
Plans: I heard a great thing the other night. It came out of conference-approved literature for Al-Anon. The quote is, "It's OK to plan, but you can't plan the outcome." That hit home for me. My tendency is to envision... | Continue reading
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: In his second appearance, Nate Silver joins the show to cover the intersections of predictions, politics, and poker with Tyler. They tackle how coin flips solve status quo bias, gambling’s origins in divinatio … | Continue reading
In no other OECD country do workers spend less time on the job. With labour input shrinking by some 1 per cent a year, labour productivity would need to rise by an equal amount for the economy to stand still. Unfortunately, productivity increases per hour worked have stood well b … | Continue reading
1. Zvi on the revised version of SB 1047. And Dean Ball on the same. 2. Transcript of Greg Mankiw with Jon Hartley. 3. New FOIA release. 4. Ireland as literary powerhouse. 5. The world’s largest renewable and storage project. Australia to Singapore is some umbilical cord… 6. Uber … | Continue reading
An excellent essay by John Cochrane: Uber surge pricing was an important lesson to me. I loved it. I could always get a car if I really needed one, and I could see how much extra I was paying and decide if I didn’t need it. I was grateful that Uber let me pay other […] The post M … | Continue reading
I’ve been using one for a few months now, since I had to replace a kaput computer in Stockholm on short notice. Mostly it is fine. But why do they make it so hard to use the “@” sign? You have to press Control and Alt together and then tap the key for 2. Do […] The post The Swedi … | Continue reading
By Yaroslav Hrytsak, I found this to be one of the very best overviews of Ukrainian history and certainly the most conceptual. This passage concerns the 1914-1945 period and the frequency of change: In Lviv — eight [the nature of the regime changed eight times]. In Kyiv, the gove … | Continue reading
…the country’s migration minister is celebrating the fact Sweden has “negative net immigration”, with more people thought to be leaving the country than entering for the first time in more than half a century. “The number of asylum applications is heading towards a historically l … | Continue reading
Downtown Penn Yan Gull, iPhone 13 Pro Max Every now and then I get a nice one with the phone. It's not for lack of snapping—I take pictures with the iPhone every day, some of them practical notes, most of... Related Stories New Work Canon Throws Out Baby With Bathwater Mystery Pi … | Continue reading
1. Parts of the contemporary art market are collapsing in price (NYT). 2. Redux of my 2010 post on how public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives. 3. How do central banks control inflation? 4. Good observations on lead exposure, IQ, and crime. 5. Home state bias limits lab … | Continue reading
TLDR: Baeldung Pro is finally live. A long time coming :) | Continue reading
CEO compensation at large firms is high, especially in comparison to average worker wages, sparking debates over income inequality. Critics argue that such pay packages are unfair and disproportionate to actual company performance. Proponents contend that high pay reflects produc … | Continue reading
Total family subsidy spending exceeds 5 per cent of GDP, or more than double what Hungary spends on defence… From a record low of 1.23 children per woman in 2011, the country’s fertility rate rose to 1.59 in 2020, but in recent years it has levelled off to about 1.5. In the first … | Continue reading
This Patrick Collison list is descriptive, not normative: The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce Seeing Like a State The Dream Machine The Sovereign Individual The Beginning of Infinity Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman Softwar Ashlee Vance’s Elon biography The Mythical Man-Month Mindstor … | Continue reading
Tutorial on how to use IMAP to interact with the Gmail server using Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to remove all elements from an array of Strings in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to integrate Quarkus with Elasticsearch. | Continue reading
Discover Azure Java Functions for serverless computing. | Continue reading
Learn two methods for sending key/value messages from the command line in Kafka. | Continue reading
1. Sports betting hurts individual savings of the bettors. 2. “Tim Walz is the first person on either the top or bottom half of a Democratic presidential ticket since 1980 who didn’t attend law school. That is 20 individuals across 10 elections over 40 years who pursued a JD or L … | Continue reading
Before the sparse audience, he vowed to run the city of Cheyenne exclusively with an AI bot he calls “VIC” for “Virtual Integrated Citizen.” …Standing behind a lectern with a sign that read “AI FOR MAYOR,” he gave a brief PowerPoint presentation on the history of AI. Then he step … | Continue reading
Bob Lawson and I have an op-ed in Barrons with a new perspective on inequality. Kamala Harris has said inequality is “the defining economic challenge of our time.” Indeed, the Gini coefficient for the United States is 0.4, one of the highest among developed nations, and Senator B … | Continue reading
The author is Harlad Jähner, and the subtitle is The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933. I quite enjoyed this book, which focuses on elements such as the dance, or the growing prominence of the automobile, as essential elements of Weimar. Here is one good passage: In the … | Continue reading
That is the theme of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Consider business. For decades now, big businesses have been on the rise in the US, which means employment in large corporations that use a team approach is increasingly likely. One effect of this is that indiv … | Continue reading
Tiffen No. 15 Deep Yellow and Hoya YA3 Orange filters As regular readers know, a couple of years ago I bought a rather offbeat camera—a full-frame Sigma FP outfit with the 45mm lens and the chimney viewfinder that attaches sideways... Related Stories 'Flowers at the Edge of a Fie … | Continue reading
The author is Cormac Ó Gráda, the renowned Irish economic historian, and the subtitle is Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars. This is a first-rate and also horrifying of a still underdiscussed topic. Here is one excerpt: The death rate from famine in Greece was probably h … | Continue reading
In the year to June, 80,200 New Zealand citizens moved abroad, almost double the numbers prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, just 24,900 returned, according to Stats NZ — the country’s official data agency. The net loss of 55,300 citizens (which follows a net loss of 56,50 … | Continue reading
1. Warren Coats memoir is now published. 2. There is a Hamnet movie. 3. Jon Hartley podcast with Greg Mankiw. 4. According to NYT, the government still employs Elizondo as a consultant. 5. Why is the Norwegian Krone weakening so much? (FT) 6. Best post-Beatle Macca moments? 7. Wi … | Continue reading
In 2014 fewer than 10,000 migrants crossed the gap. Last year more than 500,000 did. Another surge is expected as a result of Venezuela’s presidential election on July 28th, which was stolen by the ruling autocrat, Nicolás Maduro. Here is more from The Economist. One lesson here … | Continue reading
A quick tutorial on editing values in JSON arrays using several popular Java JSON libraries. | Continue reading
Learn how to use ArchUnit to enforce a code structure that adheres to DDD principles during the build process. | Continue reading
Learn about a different paradigm of software development, the Data-Oriented Programming. | Continue reading
Learn how to recursively list files and directories in Java. | Continue reading
A large body of literature in economics and political science examines the impact of democracy and political freedoms on various outcomes using cross-country comparisons. This paper explores the possibility that any positive impact of democracy observed in these studies might be … | Continue reading
I've had a fun photographic week, posting some previously unseen older work and doing some new shooting. The standout was probably "Paint Spill," which was chosen for Flickr's "Explore" feature and is nearing 10,000 views (by Flickr's count) as I... Related Stories Mailbag Half-F … | Continue reading
I am not caught up on comments. (Been out working.) The comments on the last two posts were so good I'm considering feturing a few of them in separate posts. Stay tuned. I once wrote a post called "Do You... Related Stories Monkey Coffin (More Troubles With Terminology, Dept.) | Continue reading
Explore how to configure Hibernate 6's implicit naming strategies for database sequences. | Continue reading