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Coding

Stream search engine

If you are looking for a stream URL (i.e.: for radios) and don’t know where to look for it, you can use this StreamURL Search engine.

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Coding

Camel 4: what’s new

If you are interested in what’s new for Camel 4 and what the roadmap for 2023 looks like, please check this blog post on the official Apache Camel blog.

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Coding

Hunting performance monsters on the back of a Camel

Last week I wrote a blog post for the Apache Camel blog where I discussed about the performance improvements for Camel 4. Check it out to get an insight about what to expect.

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Coding Fedora Linux Mac OS X

Controlling a PC via HomeKit: revisited

A little more than three years ago I wrote a series of posts describing how to use Apple’s HomeKit to control the power of a desktop (or home server). The idea was to implement a solution that allowed me to turn the computer on or off using my iOS / iPadOS devices. The posts described […]

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Coding

Social Networks

It seems like a lot of the folks in the tech community is either moving away from Twitter or creating a secondary account on Mastodon. I did the same, so now I also have an account on Mastodon. I’ll continue using Twitter and LinkedIn, but I’ll see how things progress on each one of them […]

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Coding Haiku Java

Java Development on Haiku

Haiku is an open source operating system inspired by BeOS, an operating system developed by Be Inc in the 90s. Although it’s still in a beta phase, Haiku is surprisingly fast and responsible. You can find many reviews on the web about it. During the last few days I have been playing with it on […]

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Coding Mac OS X

Try Apache Maven Daemon

Have nothing better to do this – long, if you are in Czech Republic – weekend? Why not try Apache Maven Daemon, instead? Updates: – 2022-09-23: the script was updated to Maven Daemon version 0.8.1. Well, sadly if you are developing your Java code on an Apple Silicon Mac, there’s no ARM build yet due […]

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Mac OS X

Fixing Logitech MX Keys on MacOS

If you are using a @Logitech MX Keys on multiple OSes you will notice that it prints a few different characters on MacOS than it does on Linux and Windows. I have never found a way to force it to behave the same way on all operating systems. Although you can tweak a bit using […]

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Fedora Linux

Software-based KVM switch

Note: this text was mostly translated automatically from the original post in Portuguese 2 years ago. In this post I will show you how to make a KVM-switch for Linux using only software and some compatible hardware. I am using Fedora as my Linux distribution, but I believe the steps would be similar for Ubuntu, […]

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Coding Java

JChampions Conference Talks

For the last few days I have been attending the online JChampions Conference. This conference is organized and featured by Java Champions (widely recognized members of the Java community). As I promised on Twitter, I selected a couple of talks from the event that I liked very much (I almost feel guilty of selecting just […]