Don't touch Throwable
Throwable is the supertype of all things that can be thrown. It often appears in codebases as an upper bound for error handling. Here's why you shouldn't do it.
2024
The vulnerability is by design
We should all strive to write code that is harder—if not impossible—to exploit. Sometimes, however, the vulnerability comes from places we thought we could trust.
Typing the web: TypeScript & KotlinJS
When I talk about KotlinJS, people often ask me “Why not just TypeScript?”. This article compares the type system and standard libraries to understand how different the languages are.
GitLab over GitHub
Over the years, many people have asked me why I prefer using GitLab over GitHub. Although an exhaustive comparison wouldn't be possible in a single article, I'd like to highlight a few points of interest.
That time I broke KotlinX.Coroutines
A story about contributing to open source, how the community finds bugs before they reach customers, and a weird edge case I didn't know about.
What is really hexagonal architecture?
Hexagonal architecture is one of the most popular software architectures at the moment. Let's dive into what it is, what it isn't, and how to know when a project isn't benefitting from it.
Dependency Injection without a framework
Dependency Injection is more popular than ever. As with all popular things, the original idea is becoming more and more diluted down, to the point that discussing it is becoming difficult. Let's go back to the roots, and see what DI really is.
Tabs vs spaces: the case of accessibility
Since forever, programmers have debated between the use of tabulations or spaces to represent indentation. Nowadays, even mentioning this debate leads to dismissal—but recent tools make one option much better than the other.