Hi! I'm Jake, but you can call me Name*

I'm a software engineer from the UK.

I'm using this site to highlight things I've infrequently made in my free time and other things programming related I think are worth checking out. So sit back, open a watermelon flavoured sparkling water, and enjoy whatever it is I decide to put on here.

* short for Name_Goes_Here, often used as my online handle on services, hence the site name

Recent Posts

The web sucks now (And I refuse to adhere to its contract)

It has been two years since my first and only blog post, and since then I’ve shifted my perspective on technology and the role it plays in my life. The person I was two years ago, enthusiastic about the web and dreaming of meaningful code contributions for opensource [...]

Testing Spring's WebFlux

Since Spring Boot 3’s release in 2022, there’s been a large push to using Reactive Messaging, including a planned deprecation for using RestTemplates. After spending some time last year using WebFlux’s Mono publishers to send messages, I found ways using JUnit and [...]

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