Ben Weidig

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2025

2

January

Why Everyone Talks About Zig

 · 19 min
#zig

What Happens After We Hit Compile in Java?

 · 17 min
#java

2024

21

November

Templating with Thymeleaf: Custom Dialects and More (Part 3)

 · 11 min
#java

October

Templating with Thymeleaf: Fragments and Reusability (Part 2)

 · 9 min
#java

Templating with Thymeleaf: The Basics (Part 1)

 · 12 min
#java

September

The Bytecode Chicken-Egg Problem

 · 28 min
#java

July

Using Indexed and Associative Arrays in Bash

 · 12 min
#shell

June

Understanding Java Generics: Key Features and Common Pitfalls

 · 21 min
#Java

Reclaim Your Gmail Inbox with Google Scripts

 · 11 min
#tools

May

Exploring Java’s Units of Measurement API (JSR 385)

 · 13 min
#Java

Looking at Java 22: Multi-File Source-Code Programs

 · 6 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Shell Traps and Posix Signals

 · 7 min
#shell

April

Looking at Java 22: Stream Gatherers

 · 8 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Looking at Java 22: Foreign Function & Memory API

 · 8 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Looking at Java 22: Class-File API

 · 13 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Working with Numbers in Java

 · 19 min
#java

March

Looking at Java 22: Unnamed Variables & Patterns

 · 6 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Grabbing Screen Text with a Shell Script

 · 9 min
#shell #tools

Looking at Java 22: Statements before super

 · 5 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Looking at Java 22: Intro

 · 5 min
#java #looking-at-java-22

Better Code Snippets in JavaDoc

 · 19 min
#java

February

Java Enums 101

 · 16 min
#java

January

Test Swift Packages with a Test Host

 · 7 min
#xcode #swift #ios

2023

19

October

Looking at Java 21: Structured Concurrency

 · 8 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Looking at Java 21: The Little Things

 · 6 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Looking at Java 21: Virtual Threads

 · 7 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Shell Redirection 101

 · 9 min
#shell

September

Revisiting Java for Shell Scripting

 · 6 min
#java #shell

Xcode String Catalogs 101

 · 10 min
#xcode #swift #ios

Looking at Java 21: Generational ZGC

 · 9 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Looking at Java 21: Record Patterns

 · 7 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

August

Looking at Java 21: Feature Deprecations

 · 8 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Xcode Breakpoints 101

 · 12 min
#xcode #ios

Looking at Java 21: Switch Pattern Matching

 · 13 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

July

Looking at Java 21: Scoped Values

 · 9 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

June

Looking at Java 21: Sequenced Collections

 · 5 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Looking at Java 21: Simpler Main Methods and Unnamed Classes

 · 6 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Looking at Java 21: String Templates

 · 11 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

Looking at Java 21: Intro

 · 2 min
#java #looking-at-java-21

May

“A Functional Approach to Java” is finally here!

 · 8 min
#java #functional #book

April

Traveling with (only) an iPad

 · 18 min

March

Deploying Hugo with GitHub Actions

 · 8 min
#infrastructure

2022

2

September

Functional Programming With Java: Method References

 · 9 min
#java #functional

January

BASHŌ (芭蕉) - An Exporter for Calibre

 · 2 min
#shell

2021

6

November

Custom Operators in Swift

 · 6 min
#swift

October

Build-Time Variables in Go

 · 3 min
#golang

March

Java Interfaces vs. Abstract Classes

 · 8 min
#java

Java Spliterator Explained

 · 7 min
#java

February

How to Iterate with Java

 · 7 min
#java

January

Essentials of Java’s Time API (JSR-310)

 · 15 min
#java

2020

27

September

Functional Programming With Java: map, filter, reduce

 · 7 min
#java #functional

August

Local Variable Type Inference in Java 10

 · 8 min
#java

July

Localization Changes in Java 9

 · 7 min
#java

Why We Should Build Our Own Tools: The Story of Tortuga

 · 8 min
#golang #tools

9 Tips For Writing Safer Shell Scripts

 · 8 min
#shell

June

Nested Classes in Java

 · 6 min
#java

Functional Programming With Java: Exception Handling

 · 10 min
#java #functional

Java Benchmarks with JMH

 · 8 min
#java

Choosing the Right Data Types

 · 9 min
#best-practice

May

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Java Exceptions

 · 21 min
#java

April

How Fluent Interfaces Can Lead to More Meaningful Code

 · 9 min
#best-practice #java

Formatting Strings With Java

 · 7 min
#java

March

Utility Classes of the JDK: Dealing With I/O

 · 8 min
#java

The JDK Ecosystem

 · 7 min
#java

Utility Classes of the JDK: Collections and Arrays

 · 8 min
#java

February

Decouple Your Code With Dependency Injection

 · 8 min
#best-practice #java

JShell, the Java REPL

 · 9 min
#java

10 Git Tips To Save Time And Improve Your Workflow

 · 7 min
#git

Functional Programming With Java: Immutability

 · 10 min
#java #functional

Habit-Driven Development and Finding Your Own Style

 · 8 min
#best-practice

Functional Programming With Java: Streams

 · 10 min
#java #functional

January

Java Annotations Explained

 · 8 min
#java

Functional Programming With Java: What’s in the Box

 · 4 min
#java #functional

Equality and Comparison in Java: Pitfalls and Best Practices

 · 9 min
#java

Functional Programming With Java: An Introduction

 · 9 min
#java #functional

Java Stream Collectors Explained

 · 5 min
#java #functional

I (don’t) want to be a Digital Nomad

 · 12 min

2019

13

December

Introduction to CSS Custom Properties

 · 11 min
#css

Bikes, Yaks, Airplanes, and Arguing About Unimportant Things in Engineering

 · 7 min
#best-practice

Better Null-Handling With Java Optionals

 · 7 min
#java

Know Your Dependencies

 · 8 min
#best-practice

DIY Swift Package Manager Dependencies

 · 5 min
#swift #ios

Signal-to-Noise Ratio

 · 9 min
#best-practice

Best of: Java 8

 · 7 min
#java #best-of

Surface Pro 7 as portable Linux Dev Machine

 · 8 min
#linux

November

Column 80

 · 4 min
#best-practice

October

Best of: Java 7

 · 5 min
#java #best-of

September

Moving from GitHub pages to self-hosted

 · 6 min
#infrastructure

Running a JavaFX app with Java 11

 · 2 min
#java

Naming Stuff is Hard: Why Proper Names Matter

 · 5 min
#best-practice

2018

2

September

(Not) Everything needs JavaScript

 · 6 min
#javascript

August

Your Comments Are Bad

 · 7 min
#best-practice

2017

3

June

How to Hotfix Carthage Dependencies

 · 2 min
#ios

February

Java for Shell Scripting

 · 4 min
#java #shell

Java 8 Interfaces: default Methods for Backward Compatibility

 · 2 min
#java

2016

1

December

Java Streams: Order Matters

 · 3 min
#java