Week in Review May 16th, 2020

Woke up to rain falling on the roof, rolled over and went back to sleep. Some days I just decide to skip exercise and go with the extra rest. This is really difficult when I have to drive to work, but working from home does allow me to focus on my mental health as well as physical health.

I have spent most of the week looking for existing solutions to problems I have encountered while fleshing out an intranet design. There seems to be a JavaScript solution to every component I have needed. I really wish the Java Community would reconsider removing Nashorn from the standard distribution. Sometimes it is just simpler to use the JavaScript implementation with a little glue code.

I consider the bicycle the greatest invention to date. It is my favorite mode of transportation beyond the two mile range. Today I found a story about San Francisco maybe giving it a try City without Cars.

My favorite CSS and JavaScript library received an update. It just handles the details of a Material UI without getting in my way. Bootstrap 4.5.0.

Looks like The Server Side still exists. They have a decent introduction to GraalVM, I did have to sign up first.

A different perspective is at Quarkus.

Sometimes I want to save a web page for later research, given the short memory of the internet I have found Monolith to be useful. I creates a single web page with everything you probably need to view it in the future. I recommend piping it through gzip, modern pages are big.