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World geography gotchas
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d'Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein, respectively Italy and Germany. Both are enclaves of th
Sep 17, 20264 min read
My first real Rust project
I have been learning Rust for a couple of years, and using it for pet projects and demos alike. Working for a JVM-heavy company, I thought it would be my fate forever. Last week, I had a nice surprise: I convinced my management that using Rust for a ...
Nov 27, 20258 min read
Choosing a dependency
Fun fact, I thought I had already written this post, but when I wanted to reference it, I found out that I didn't. In this post, I'd like to describe my approach when choosing a dependency. I'll first define what I mean by dependency in the context o...
Nov 6, 20259 min read
Testing the untestable
I'm currently working on a software designed more than a decade ago. It offers a plugin architecture: you can develop a plugin whose lifecycle is handled by the software. The tough part, though, is how you access the platform capabilities: via static...
Oct 23, 20252 min read1
On dependencies in objects
In OOP, objects collaborate. The initial idea of collaboration, first found in Smalltalk, was for object A to send a message to object B. Languages designed later use method calling. In both cases, the same question stands: how does an object referen...
Oct 16, 20254 min read
Thoughts on object creation
Creational patterns were first described in the famous Gang of Four's Design Patterns. The book presents each pattern in a dedicated chapter and follows a strict structure for each one: intent, motivation, applicability, structure, participants, coll...
Sep 4, 20257 min read