Conjecture: Easy Access to Knowledge makes us Dumber

Or, rather, easier access to information means we get a less balanced world-view, thereby making us less overall informed. The idea is really rather simple: if we see something we disagree with, we are more likely to investigate it. A direct consequence is that we are more likely to find evidence against it. This is […]

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Where in Spacetime is Carmen Sandiego?

For HealthKPI‘s location features I need to deal with large(ish) quantities of spatio-temporal data. Basically, I have a bunch of time series with health data, and each data point has an attached location. Presently, I have around 10000 data points in my manually registered database, and I expect that number to only go up once […]

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Angular and Spring Boot, part 2

I wrote a piece about base project setup to make Angular and Spring Boot play nice together. This piece builds upon that, but can also be read in isolation (except for the section where I make changes to the previous post. The previous post showed how to do basic project setup and to configure Angular […]

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Angular, Spring Boot, Maven, and all that Jazz

Angular is the “new” hotness is web-development, and it is easy to see why: web-developers (lol) are idiots. Simultaneously, Spring Boot is the way to develop cloud-native enterprise-ready applications in a Java ecosystem. It just seems nobody on the internet has thought to bring these two great tastes together yet. Sure, there’s (as always) a […]

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