Almost every developer knows the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, coined by Donald Knuth in 1974. But how are we supposed to know what is worthy of being optimized?

Exception handling is a mechanism used to handle disruptive, abnormal conditions to the control flow of our programs. Let’s take a deep-dive how Java deals with them.

Almost no software project lives isolated without dependencies. The spectrum goes from “just use the stdlib” up to “use dependencies for every single line of code”.

What to do if your favorite dependency is not SPM-compatible (yet)? We do it ourselves!

Code lines shouldn’t be too long, and many of us use 80 columns as a (flexible) limit. But do you know why it is precisely 80, and not 60 or 120?