Review on 2022, Goals for 2023

Advocate for better developer's productivity and experience
Documenting my learnings and sharing it
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Advocate for better developer's productivity and experience
Documenting my learnings and sharing it
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Background Recently, I redesigned my team's pipeline running on a multi-module Maven monorepo using GitLab CI. It wasn't that the previous setup was broken, but my team faced a few persistent issues t
Background At work, there’s some test written where I wanted to query the database (repository) after mockMvc request has been made to verify the result. This is a very simple illustration of what it looks like. @SpringBootTest @AutoConfigureMockMvc ...

It's been a long time coming, but I finally came around to set up MongoDB with replicas for local development. TLDR; clone the repository, run docker compose up -d, and you are good to go! If you want to know more, continue to read below. Context Run...

Context I recently came across TaskFile and wanted to use it to automate some of my workflows, which underlying invokes PowerShell commands. However, I faced several errors while doing so, and this post is to reflect on it, and hopefully help myself ...

Problem I was always out of disk space in my C drive, and even though I clear my stuff often, I notice that my space is never reclaimed, instead, it kept going down. I used WizTree to view which file is taking up my disk space, and I noticed this No...

When I started this blog on 1st Jan 2022, I mentioned that I wanted to write one post per month and I achieved my goal. It wasn't too difficult, although there are months that I didn't write any at all, and months that I write 2-3 per month.
I wrote a total of 17 articles (excluding the first entry), and the top 3 views are
How to setup and configure your own Gitlab Runner at ~1.3k view
How to configure Lombok extension to play well with VSCode at ~1.1k view
Enhance your WSL 2 experience with Xfce4 at ~500 view
The total views at the time of writing are 5147, not bad at all. I don't think about getting high views, but more of hoping that the articles I wrote help someone in need.
I still have around 10 articles in my draft, some have been there for quite some time, and I never got around to finishing up the article.
Overall, I think I did well and writing has helped me understand the topic (I wrote) much deeper. There is so much research and work behind the scene to get the article out.
In 2023, I hoped to achieve the following
Continue to write at least one article per month
Finish reading Modern Java in Action
Create a schedule to watch tech videos (I kept putting them off)
Learn more in-depth about Kubernetes
Have a great year ahead!