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Java’s checked exceptions were a massive improvement over C’s error-handling mechanism. As time passed and experience accumulated, we collectively concluded that we weren’t there yet. However, Java’s focus on stability has kept checked exceptions in its existing API. Java 8 brought lambdas after the 'checked exceptions are great' trend. None of the functi...


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I have spent some time last year implementing Cloudflare Tunnels on my Home Assistant and my Synology NAS. On Mastodon, I had not one but two commenters advertising for Tailscale: Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon I decided to give it a try and migrate my servers and devices to Tailscale. In this post, I want to describe how I did. Thanks to Heiko Does and higgins f...


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From the beginning, the focus of this blog has been technical, very rarely organizational. I broke this unwritten rule once in 2015. I began writing retrospectives in 2023 on the year that had passed. Let’s continue the tradition, but with a wider scope than before. The situation warrants it. More chaos It’s a hard realization to admit, but the world is spiraling dee...


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