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Engineering, products, and what holds up in production.

Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.

  • Mar 11, 2024

    How To Create A Spring Effect With CSS

    How to animate these wiggly elements that look so natural with CSS? This articles is the answer!

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    How To Create A Spring Effect With CSS
  • Nov 13, 2023

    🍃 VMWare Released Spring Shell 3.2.0 M3. Build Terminal Apps In Java

    Terminal apps can be written in all sorts of languages. Spring Terminal is a solid solution for Java developers

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    🍃 VMWare Released Spring Shell 3.2.0 M3. Build Terminal Apps In Java
  • Dec 7, 2022

    🍏 Spring Boot 3.0 Indubitably Rocks With Java 19 Support

    Spring Boot 3.0 and Java 19? Am I dreaming? 🎶

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    🍏 Spring Boot 3.0 Indubitably Rocks With Java 19 Support
  • Oct 22, 2022

    Java Spring Boot 3.0.0 RC1 Rocks Socks!

    Phil Webb announced two days ago on the Spring blog that the much anticipated Spring Boot 3.0.0 RC1 is now available.

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    Java Spring Boot 3.0.0 RC1 Rocks Socks!

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