Tuesday, April 25, 2023

In the book Effective Java 2nd edition, the item 19 stipulates to "use interfaces only to define types" and not to use them to define constants.

 Friday, March 31, 2023

Since I've heard about Emacs' Dynamic Module feature, I've wanted to try it out. This article presents a small "hello world" with this feature.

 Saturday, March 25, 2023

While I was reading the Java Specification and Java Tutorials, I stumbled upon the "wildcard capture pattern" and the "Object cannot be converted to CAP#1" error.

 Friday, March 24, 2023

I recently encountered a bug which was caused by a NaN value in my Java code. NaN, short for "Not a Number", is a valid value for a float or a double. NaN is a tricky value because (1) it spreads like a virus and (2) it is unorderable.

 Tuesday, November 08, 2022

I was recently working on an embedded device that provided a limited CLI interface and was looking for an utility to dump a binary file.

I was aware of hexdump(1) but alas, it was not available on my platform. That is how I discovered od(1).