Personally I would just use SDKMan & generate a Maven or Gradle build profile from a getting started page of Spring, Vert.x, Quarkus (or whatever library/framework your main work will be on).. . Many of them have interactive starter pages where you click all the things you think you will need and download the project that builds with a single command.

I don't find Java tooling at all difficult, compared to say Python or JavaScript.. but then again I've been using it for quite a while now so I may not be the best judge

I find that Maven and Gradle are quite complex. Creating a build file for a new project and publishing to Sonatype is extremely difficult.

Certainly those projects are solid, but I think there is a lot of room for improvement, and that's what I'm working on.

I've worked in projects where change was expected, so a policy of strict integration testing was introduced - test that treat the system as a black box and aren't aware of its internal structure (to a point, there is always some compromise). Every bug had to have a matching integration test. This made rewrites cheap, boring even (there is always _some_ danger of course, but the approach significantly simplified the decision to rewrite some part of the system or another).

Please don't write your own. Last time I checked there was just an astounding number of static site generators in every imaginable technology. Why do people write & publish this thing over and over again, surely it's been done to the death?

I wrote my own because there wasn't one that did what I wanted. And why shouldn't I? We are hackers, yes?

For the joy of building your own thing?

People also keep knitting clothes despite how cheap they are to buy. They solve math problems that have been solved before, to get better at math, instead of starting with an unsolved problem. They write about things they are enthusiastic about, maybe to remember the experience, maybe to get better at writing, or to dip their toes into publishing.

Some people also seem to like reading such articles, given the upvotes. I guess it's about sharing the experience of something that interests you. Learn how it might turn out.

People here have trouble with names, but for a Slavic language speaker like myself, the names are one of the best parts. Even if I don't speak Russian, names like "Razkolnikov" ooze his indecisiveness. And the characters the author doesn't like, he shows contempt for them by not even giving them a proper name, calling them Mr. C. or something like that.

My problem with Dostoyevsky is that I simply don't like his style.. despite being a voracious reader it was pure torture getting through The Idiot and I gave up 1/3 of the way during Crime and Punishment. Had to re-read parts out loud again to help my son who had to read it for high school and begged me to help him somehow (we share the dislike it seems). He's one of the authors I would really love to like, but it's just not happening

Indeed - I'll take "try, don't be afraid to fail" over "oh just stop, you're embarrassing yourself" any day. You will embarrass yourself.. what are we, 13 again?

First let me say that any corruption admitted to in those recordings should be prosecuted immediately, no question about it.

But really, the admissions were really nothing much, I'm actually surprised that's all they got. The former minister was forced to resign under allegations of corruption and was/is under investigation for it, no big surprise. And the talk about having access to Ljubljana's mayor (and that he is "for sale") - well that's been in the news for years, he's under several open investigations and many more were already closed (he always comes out victorious - either because he's innocent and it's all just hearsay, or more likely because he's extremely good at dodging liability and covering his tracks). The rest is just people who used to have some power trying to appear like they still have in order to impress a potential employer or get a business deal (that was the agents' cover).

Again, I hope the authorities are combing the tapes for evidence, but it really wasn't anything bombastic. That the Israelis were doing this on the other hand...

"Handler" can describe anything, I avoid that name like the plague in my designs, there's almost always something more appropriate that communicates more meaning

Dependency injection is great as long as its internal working can be easily understood. I've worked with projects where dependency injection comes in various contexts (application scoped, request scoped ..) and there are always problems with that, sooner or later.

Our firefighters collaborate with Croatian aerial firefighters (our neighbouring country). They say there is often pressure from politicians to drop water on wildfires in mined areas, however this is still dangerous to the planes as they have to go real low (a mine could explode spontaneously in their flight path) and after a few near misses they've adopted a policy: if it's not worth demining it's not worth saving from fire either.

Guess they will have more work now

He ended up on React because it just works and doesn't change all the time. Now both my React and .NET times are some way behind me, but I'd definitely say it's the other way around..

It's changed a LOT over the years though... it's just kind of glossed over at this point... the move to hooks and quasi-functional components was a massive paradigm shift, but most saw it as a raw improvement. I personally think server components are still a bit of a mess and am actively avoiding them for now... they're improving but I think it's a waste of server resources most of the time.

Even hooks have changed significantly.

And the React+ ecosystem is in an incredible amount of flux.

React has changed far more in far shorter a time than .NET.

My dad and my uncle had a code under the Bush administration

My uncle had moved to the US and either still was on a green card or had just recently got his US citizenship and thet said why risk it? .. (they were kinda cute about it though, they just wrote "Jure Grm" which literally translates to "George Bush" in our language so if anyone was actually looking, they wouldn't have fooled them for a second).

They were just bitching about politics, not planning a coup or something, yet they felt insecure, even with the US.