Month January 2026

Async Reactivity with Angular Resources — A Production‑Minded Guide (2026) Signals are synchronous by design (signal, computed, effect, input). But real apps aren’t. They fetch data, debounce queries, cancel requests, retry, and render loading/error states. Resource is Angular’s answer: async…

Should you use Lovable, Bolt, or Replit to start coding? How to choose based on your stack, your goals, and how “opinionated” you want your tools to be. TL;DR Lovable can be a great starting point if you’re okay with…

TL;DR: Drifting occurs in every codebase. Codebases do not break down due to a specific problem; they are drifting due to small changes (such as importing for analytics tracking) that become significant over time from a maintenance standpoint. You will…

When I decided to create my blog, I chose Amazon S3 to host the images for my posts. The decision was practical (S3 is reliable, inexpensive, and scales well), but I also saw it as an opportunity: using a real,…

This post was written together with Thorben Janssen, who has more than 20 years of experience with JPA and Hibernate and is the author of “Hibernate Tips: More than 70 Solutions to Common Hibernate Problems” and the JPA newsletter. Kotlin…

Hashtag Jakarta EE #316 Welcome to issue number three hundred and sixteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference speaking season is starting up again. My first talk of the year will be at Valencia JUG where I will present The Past,…

Public vs Private APIs in ASP.NET Core — Branching the Middleware Pipeline (Production‑Minded, with a Smile) Imagine you run two API “surfaces” in the same ASP.NET Core app: Public: (external clients, OData, public contracts) Private: (internal services, admin…

This is going to be the final Music Monday for a little while! We’re taking a short hiatus to do some retooling behind the scenes. It’s been an absolute blast seeing the Spotify playlist grow, and I want to make…

We are living in the golden age of AI coding. We have Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude—tools that can write entire apps in seconds. But for UI design, we still possess a strange blind spot. We usually have two choices: Describe…

The second bug-fix update for TeamCity On-Premises 2025.11 is ready to be installed! In this update, we have addressed a number of issues, such as: The “buildagent” user in TeamCity Linux agent images changed its UID from 1000 to 1001;…