Recently I was working on a project which used MJML for building responsive HTML emails and FreeMarker as a template engine. I have faced some hurdles while integrating MJML with FreeMarker tags.

My recent PC upgrade ended up with couple fried CPU’s.

While working with multiple people on the same project, I have always been annoyed by the way npm install works. Running npm install after checking out code always caused different package-lock.json than package-lock.json checked in source control.

I have moved my blog to dovydasvenckus.dev domain, because I think it is more suitable for this blog.

I love Spock testing framework, it has much more elegant syntax that JUnit. Also, I think it has a gentle learning curve compared to JUnit. Not so long ago to Mock or Stub Spring context beans was a pain in the butt. But Spock 1.2 version introduced an easier way to Mock and Stub spring beans.

I was experiencing video lag with 60 FPS Youtube videos on Raspberry PI 2 running LibreELEC 9.0. 60 FPS videos were choppy, video lagged behind audio and was completely unwatchable.

Lately I have been playing around with Kodi on Rasberry Pi 2.

This issue seems to be solved in Firefox 67 version: 1527048

Optionals are really cool Java 8 feature. But it works differently than I thought. So I’ll show how I have shot my own leg when working with orElse.

Resource handling

Before Java 7 working with IO resource (files, JDBC) was tedious, you had to close the resource manually. Most of these operations with resources can throw exceptions. Whether the exception was thrown or try block completed without exception resource should be closed.