Patrick Bacon on Atomic Spin

Developer Tools

Here’s Why I’m Using Zellij – A Terminal Workspace

I've been using Zellij, a terminal workspace / multiplexer, for a few months, and I've found it to be a great addition to my setup.

Developer Tools

How to use Lima to set up a VM sandbox for running AI coding agent CLIs that only have access to the source code directory.

Developer Tools

Let's walk through the networking tools I use to diagnose issues like a recent home networking connection issue I encountered.

Let's look at mitigations for slow queries caused by Entity Framework using OPENJSON instead of a basic WHERE IN clause for collections.

Developer Tools

Here's how and why you should log your ZSH History. Use a zsh hook to save commands to daily log files, allowing for easy searching.

Java

Here's how you use the Collator class in Java to pre-collate Unicode strings in a case-insensitive way so that SQLite can index/sort them.

Developer Tools

Here are some examples of using the jq command-line utility to create new JSON data from scratch or update values in an existing JSON document.

The Software Life

Here's how to use the power of LLMs to generate Common Table Expressions, making a legacy database easier to work with for ad-hoc queries.

Developer Tools

Here's how to tell an installed Java application to use the macOS system proxy for network traffic, so it can be directed through a VPN.

Java

Here are example implementations of creating a Java Stream API that yields the entries in a ZIP archive, reading from a provided InputStream.

Java

Here's a code example of programmatically configuring Ehcache in a Spring Boot application with a persistent disk store.

Web Apps

Here's a way to force Playwright to wait for hydration of a SvelteKit page before starting to interact with it in automated browser tests.