Introducing Fly.io

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If it can go in a Docker, Fly can host it, and they’ll help you with that. Adam Rackis takes a look at the platform and shows off all the things he likes about it.

Drizzle Database Migrations

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Drizzle ORM is a powerful object-relational mapper that combines SQL capabilities with a strongly typed API, enabling complex queries. Here we’ll look at using it’s ability to help with migrations, both code-first and database-first.

Loading Data with TanStack Router: Getting Going

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TanStack Router is one of the most exciting projects in the web development ecosystem right now, and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It’s a fully fledged client-side application framework that supports advanced routing, nested layouts, and hooks for loading data. Best of all, it does all of this with deep type safety. This post […]

Java Optionals

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The post discusses the drawbacks of null references in programming and introduces the Optional type as a solution, particularly in Java. The Optional type helps avoid null reference exceptions by allowing safe interaction with absent values using methods like ifPresent, ifPresentOrElse, map, and flatMap.