J-Fall 2023 20th Anniversary

With about 450 Proposals, 1800 attendees, 70 speakers and 50+ sessions, J-Fall 2023 organized by the NLJUG was one to remember. Celebrating the 20th anniversary, with people from all over the world, we took a moment to appreciate the great community that is available to us as Java developers. With that being said, here are some of my takeaways from the sessions I attended this edition. Missed out? Don’t you worry, the recordings will be available on their youtube channel....

<span title='2023-12-14 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>December 14, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min

Finding the 'missing' merge commit

Whoops! I like to squash commits whenever I merge a pull request into the main branch to keep the history as linear and simple as possible. I would normally set this policy on the repository and not think about it ever again. However, today I accidentally merged a pull request with a merge --no-ff policy since I assumed the default was set to squash, but it was not… So what just happened?...

<span title='2023-05-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>May 18, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min