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Spring Security is notoriously hard to debug and test. One simple trick — adding debug = true to the @EnableWebSecurity annotation — gives you significantly better log output. Just don't use it in production.

Outdated dependencies are a common source of bugs and security issues. Here are quick tools to keep your Gradle projects (Use Latest Versions Plugin) and Node.js projects (updtr) current with minimal effort.

Kube jobs running wild? Here are quick kubectl one-liners to delete successful jobs, failed or long-running jobs, or nuke them all at once.

Stripe's documentation on cancelling a subscription at period end isn't entirely current. Instead of the documented approach, you need to update the subscription schedule phases and set end_behavior to cancel. Here's the workaround.

The git -p flag enables interactive patch mode, letting you selectively stage, checkout, or commit specific hunks of changes. Once you learn it, you'll want to use it everywhere.

At Focused Labs, our Editorial Board came up with a fun way to encourage blogging: Blog Golf. Like code golf, the smallest post wins. Write in 15 minutes or less, and the most concise post takes the prize.

Sluggish CI/CD pipelines leave developers vulnerable to distraction. If your unit and integration tests live in one .csproj, use dotnet test filters to run only unit tests in CI and integration tests in CD.

CORS errors can hide the real problem. After spending hours debugging a confusing CORS issue, we discovered a simple Chrome flag that disables web security checks — letting you get past the CORS noise and debug the actual response.

At Focused Labs, we hold a weekly Culture Lunch to host important conversations about work life. Here's what emerged when we sat down to define our culture together, from what we value to how we collaborate.

When combining the Web Audio API with conferencing audio streams for spatial processing, we hit a tricky Chromium bug around echo cancellation. Here's what we learned about the interaction between audio processing pipelines and browser-level echo cancellation.

With Spring, data validation is a breeze in many common use cases (like validating a method's input parameters) - and is highly recommended.

A no-nonsense guide to JVM 14 memory management on Kubernetes, covering container support defaults, MaxRAMPercentage, and practical configuration tips.

Vue has built-in support for key events on input elements, but global shortcuts require a different approach. This post walks through how to implement global keyboard shortcuts in Vue using either low-level JavaScript event listeners or the vue-shortkey plugin.

Our initial Sentry setup with Spring Boot had some issues. Here's the revised approach using sentry.properties and logback-spring.xml that eliminates the boot-up warnings and properly captures errors.

Setting up Sentry in a Spring Boot project is mostly straightforward, but there are a few gotchas. Here's what we ended up with and the caveats to watch out for, including duplicate errors and boot-time warnings.

Tired of manually switching AWS profiles? This short bash function adds an aps command with tab completion for all your existing AWS config profiles. Just drop it in your ~/.bash_profile and go.