Hacking third-party APIs on the JVM,The JVM ecosystem is mature and offers plenty of libraries, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel. Basic - and not so basic - functionalities ...

Changing a field's type in recent JDKs,A couple of years ago, I attended a talk of former colleague (but still friend) Volker Simonis. It gave me the idea to dig a bit into the sub...

A dirty hack to ease the usage of Log4J2 in Spring Boot,Logging is one of the fundamental components of any application which runs in production. Yet, between performance and loggi...