All Technology, Zero Magic

Today's software development toolbox is powerful, offering lots of features and quick development. But once requirements call from stepping away from the beaten path, it's the understanding of the inner workings of the tools that will enable you to utilize them to full potential.

My name is Patrik, and I develop Java backend applications in Jakarta EE. For me, it's all technology, zero magic.

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Unpoly: Achieving a Single-Page Experience with Server-Side Rendering

I am great fan and supporter of Unpoly. It enables you to create very responsive user interfaces while enabling very reasonable server-side model and allows you to keep most of the interaction decisions at server side. I had the opportunity to speak at Devoxx Belgium about it in 2024, and this is textual version of that talk.

Publishing Roq to Netlify

First step in resurrecting the blog was to make it deploy to Netlify. It ended up being quite straightforward.