Jens Dibbern

@datengaertner
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Owl in a bowl

Vets at Wellington Zoo cared for this Ruru Morepork chick before its release. Donation link for those willing and able to support their work: https://wellingtonzoo.com/support-us/donate/?reference=owlsintowels.org #owlsintowels

do not turn off the bus.

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I figured out how to group Kotlin and detekt in Dependabot, so you don't have to 🙂
https://michakutz.medium.com/grouping-gradle-kotlin-and-detekt-plugins-in-dependabot-d7c97cb9771c
Grouping Gradle Kotlin and Detekt Plugins in Dependabot

detekt is provides great insight via static code analysis for Kotlin projects. But according to the detekt documentation So, if you utilize detekt in your pipeline and update Kotlin to latest and…

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in case you too want to cross-stitch it

Best advice for making a decision about changing jobs:

"When in danger/or in doubt,/run in circles/scream and shout"

This is me in doubt calmly screaming and shouting. How am I supposed to know how to decide?

I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available.

Has it held up?

Advanced template handling for text messages @kevlin
Fatal error 😀
#FeteDesLumieres

Migrating From Elasticsearch 7.17 to Elasticsearch 8.x: Pitfalls and Learnings

Great post from Zalando and a reminder that users of your software only update in case of features or bug fixes affecting them. One of the reasons why pushing out features is so important. Otherwise you will be supporting certain versions for eternity - I mean you will anyway.
I like the Testcontainers strategy to ensure existing applications work with the old and new Elasticsearch versions.

https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2023/11/migrating-from-elasticsearch-7-to-8-learnings.html

Zalando Engineering Blog - Migrating From Elasticsearch 7.17 to Elasticsearch 8.x: Pitfalls and Learnings

With Elasticsearch, moving from one major version to another is a big jump. Usually, it is updated in gradual increments, minor to minor version. It is difficult to make a big move. There's no...

Zalando Engineering Blog