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One of the disadvantages of a micro-service architecture is the config situation. Say you have 15 micro-services. Then say want to make the same change in each one. Well, now you have the pleasure of opening 15 pull requests.

One of the cool things (curses?) of maintaining your own site is that you have total control over the frontend assets. Don’t need those JavaScript widgets? Remove them. That CSS library has a bunch of unused classes? Remove them. You get the idea.

I sometimes pass around blog post drafts to friends and family for review. It’s usually by email or text, which is fine. Yet, it would be cool if I could give them a real link, a discreet draft, if you will.

When I was in middle and high school, I’d keep jots on a sheet of loose leaf paper throughout the day. I’d unfold it and refold it each time, the process was sort of romantic. Thoughts would come to me during class, and I knew if I didn’t write them down, they’d float away.

Parallelism in Java can be spooky, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s see how streams look when they’re not sequential.