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Just a random evening thought I wanted to share.

One specific peculiarity of the software engineering discipline is the slow realization that "clever" code is sometimes a liability. I divided my rationalization in three stages.

Stage 1: You want to use every design pattern, abstraction and fancy trending framework you read about on Hacker News.
Stage 2: You realize you're the one who has to debug that mess at 3am six months from now.
Stage 3: You start optimizing for a fictional person. That person is a junior who hasn't had their first coffee yet and you want readability of code more than anything lol

Which is why I never quite believed in LOC as an impressive metric. For me, a good PR is as much about reducing 500 lines of legacy technical debt while keeping the system stable as it is about adding a new shiny feature. Anyone else feel this way?

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My last blog post of the year: Next level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4.
https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/18/next-level-kotlin-support-in-spring-boot-4

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If you are a full stack engineer with 5+ years of experience in either Frontend (#TypeScript + #React) or Backend development (#Python or #Kotlin) check out this position: https://careers.nordicsemi.com/jobs/6897020-full-stack-engineer-typescript-python?promotion=1746060-trackable-share-link-e253c407-6d48-46d3-8e76-bf52f53d81f2 ... and maybe one day you will be a hero that made a robot walk again?!

Unfortunately this position is not available for remote applicants.

As always with these things, it took some time from first working prototype to something that I'm not completely embarrassed to show...
So, here's my #Kotlin symbol processing playground - The server-side framework I would have wanted in 2008:

https://codeberg.org/dtanzer/kmultipage

The "docs" subproject contains some interesting usages, so use "./gradlew :docs:run" to try it.

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I have upgraded Spring PetKlinik, my Kotlin fullstack variant of the original Spring Petclinic, to Spring Boot 4.0.0 (before it was using snapshots). https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-petklinik

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Done with the (ugly) spike, now reimplementing my #Kotlin #SymbolProcessing project, with a more sensible design, and with more Tests and TDD (*).

It's great fun when one already knows what works and what does not, and design is the main challenge, not the functionality (not anymore).

(*) I'm still finding it hard to test some parts of the symbol processor, since it runs in the compiler. But that's not a big problem for me right now.

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Yesterday, I started to play with #Kotlin symbol processing again, after I didn't manage to create something working ~2 years ago.

This time, I managed to create a proof-of-concept of something I wanted to work on for a long time!

Pretty messy code right now, will clean it up a bit and add more tests, then I'll push it to Codeberg.

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As some folks know, I am back on the job market.

26 year PHP Veteran, extensive Open Source and community experience. Specializing in modernization, training up teams, technical leadership, and long-term thinking. Some Kotlin experience as well, but not a ton.

Currently looking for Staff/Principal or Director/CTO level roles. Size of company flexible. Full time remote, US Central Time.

More details on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-garfield/

Boosts welcome, etc.

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@nixCraft hmm... does the example shows SwiftUI in use?

I do wonder when they would allow it for #Windows & #Linux -- could be interesting alternative to #Kotlin

//cc: @konstantin ? 🫣

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