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Live blog kcdc table of contents

My first post pandemic real life in person conference. So excited. I’ll be live blogging as I attend sessons from here. They said attenendance is about half of what it was pre-COVID. (They had about 1000 people.) I like that … Continue reading →

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setting up mac office 2019

I updated to Office 2019 during the pandemic but didn’t use Word much during that time. Now I’m setting it up the way I like. Show Non-Printable Characters I find it useful to display the whitespace/line breaks etc. This was … Continue reading →

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creating a new junit 5 project in gradle in intellij

I haven’t created a new JUnit 5/Gradle project in a IntelliJ in a long time. When doing so today, I ran into a number of problems. I wound up just starting over, but writing up what I encountered/learned. Java 16 … Continue reading →

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what does “in-person” mean for teams that aren’t all in the same location

I’ve been on a hybrid/distributed team for a long time. Immediately before the pandemic our team worked in the following arrangement (everyone worked 5 days a week regardless of location). Since this team was originally all in NY, I was … Continue reading →

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why java records aren’t quite immutable

A new type called a “record” was previewed in Java 14 and released in Java 16. One of the benefits is that it creates immutable objects. Kind of. An immutable record This is record is an immutable object. Since it … Continue reading →

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Setting java aliases with zshell on Mac

When I’m working on different versions of Java, I set up a bunch of aliases so I can run commands quickly and compare differences. I recently upgraded my Mac and accepted the default shell as zshell instead of bash. (This … Continue reading →

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our first toastmasters post-pandemic hybrid meeting

Before the pandemic, our club mainly met over a video conference between our NY and NJ office. Everyone was in one of those rooms. (We had a couple other formats, but they were rare.) Shortly before the pandemic, we talked … Continue reading →

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what i learned about working from home from covid

Disclaimer: This is not an anti-WFH post. I think it’s great that many people do well working from home. I hope those people can continue to do so as much as they want indefinitely. At this point in my life, … Continue reading →

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Responding to a co-located/fully remote/hybrid article

I read Should Your Organization Be Co-Located, Fully Remote, or Hybrid from Scrum Inc. It’s nice to see the agile community starting to accept that co-location isn’t necessary to be an agile team. (I’ve been on a team for many … Continue reading →

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Chromebook the fourth

Two years ago, I bought my mother her third Chromebook. The 2012 and 2014 ones were good choices. The 2019 was when I learned about the secret Chromebook end of life policy and inadvertently bought a Chromebook that expired in … Continue reading →

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