Backend Spring Boot + Kotlin is my current goto for when things just need to get done. I have a lot of experience using Spring Boot, and have finally reached a level where I feel like a magician when working with complex configurations.

Rather than using kubernetes to host my blog, I moved over to Digital Ocean App Platform. My thinking is it is more important to make the platform for the blog easy and focus on writing content rather than trying to make a complex setup.

It has been about 3 years since I updated this blog last. I have learned a ton in that time and will start writing about some of it here.

I don’t claim ownership of this saying, but I really enjoy this call to action. A call to try and get better at something that I have never tried before.

I want to start off by saying that the SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium project is totally awesome and has saved me countless hours of dealing with the selenium grid jar files.