Trump unMusked
When the richest man in the world aligns himself to the most powerful man in the world (the one that holds office) – both egomaniacal hotheads – it only becomes…
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Lidia Thorpe Interjection
This week the King and Queen visited Australia for a 6 day tour, the first time the King has visited Australia since his inauguration as King. Meetings with Royalty aren’t…
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Enshitification
Enshitifcation: The gradual worsening of products and services over time. A shift from the free / “freemium” model that was the mainstay of the 2010’s in the start-up and new…
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Java Generics
Part of my job as a Java developer I need to navigate some areas of the code base that I’m not as familiar with. Generics is one of the more…
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Arthur not so Grand
I came across a post this week regarding a recruitment firm that made a spectacular blunder with a job post for a position with a well known investment firm in…
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A different take on Duff’s Device
This year I set about learning a new programming language – Go (aka GoLang). I set about expanding my horizons away from my bread and butter language Java, and look…
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Oscars Drama
It’s said that trust takes years to cultivate and only seconds to destroy. In a similar vain, Will Smith’s cultivated nice guy, everyday man Hollywood persona was obliterated in about…
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Securing a ReST interface with SpringBoot using Basic Authentication
In this article I aim to demystify the experience of securing a ReST API with SpringBoot using the HTTP Basic Authentication mechanism. Source code for this project is available on…
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