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Notes from the craft

Longer thoughts on AEM, Java, architecture and the unglamorous details that make software last. No hot takes, just lessons learned the hard way.

15 Jun 2024

Java: Optimization of 1000 if-else statements

An interviewer asked for 1000 if-else statements. Everyone suggested the strategy pattern — here's why that's neither perfect nor the only answer, and which techniques actually work.

Java
Clean code
Interviews

21 Mar 2024

My Journey with a Developer Blog

Why I started writing in my spare time, what blogging changed about how I communicate, and what I plan to keep doing.

Writing
Career

21 Mar 2024

Pull Request reviews and checkpoints to success

21 checkpoints I walk through on every pull request — from duplicated code and long methods to dead code — and why the review is a conversation, not a gate.

Code review
Teamwork