What's in the Bag?
Introducing a New Series for Developers Who Love Tools

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A developer’s take on tools, stacks, and building in public. Inspired by golf’s “What’s in the Bag?”, each post explores a tech stack through a small project with real-world insight and a love for craft.
Introducing a New Series for Developers Who Love Tools

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the idea of looking at development stacks the way golfers look at their gear. Every tool in the bag has a purpose. Some we reach for without thinking. Others we try out, experiment with, and either adopt or toss...

Part 1 of a new series on JVM technologies, Kotlin, and the tools worth your time in 2025. For the past three decades, I’ve had a complicated relationship with Java. It was one of the first languages I wrote “real” software in, but over the years I d...
