I just installed the JetBrains Mono font. We programmers need monospaced fonts, and this is a very nice one. It comes installed with recent versions of JetBrains’s IDEs. My copy of IntelliJ was not recent, it turned out. Anyway, the most interesting thing is ligatures for programmers. Take a look …
If you pay attention to URLs and such — and if you’re reading this at all — you’ll be aware that my blog is not sited at the root or home page of the devilgate.org site, but at devilgate.org/blog/. For a long time the home page has been a very …
So if your Java code is doing something easier than processing 6 million events a second, and it’s slow, you can maybe make it faster! Source: Java isn’t slow Great piece by Julia Evans on some really fast Java applications. Notably LMAX.
The One Correct Way to do Dependency Injection | Schauderhaft In the end, "Dependency Injection" just means "passing parameters"; which was always the right way to do things anyway. From my Pinboard
This has been kicking around, nearly finished, for months. It’s not going to get any better, or shorter, so it’s long past time I put it out there. It’s also just long; and technical. So feel free to ignore. I won’t be offended. I rarely write about programming or other …