Nerd Entrophy

I'm a Software Engineer with interests in building scalable services and automating annoying things. This Tumblr is a quick, easy place for me to jot down some occasional notes about various things I'm researching or working on at home or at work.

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Denver’s Appeal to Millennials? Jobs, Mountains and, Yes, Weed

The city has much to attract young adults: jobs, night life, outdoor recreation and the progressive mind-set that fostered legal marijuana.

Kind of bittersweet to see Denver changing so much.  I love it here and am a Colorado native, am glad the population is getting more liberal, but it’s also starting to feel like the grass is getting a little worn down.

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Reading these answers, I’m very happy to live in Colorado.  However, I recently saw an article that the average home cost in Denver is now 402K.  When I was buying my first place about 13 years ago, I think it was around 250K...

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From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story

Programmer Andrew Nõmm: "I had to be made an example of as a warning to all IT people."

Interesting story.  Especially the insider information about Kim Dotcom

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I haven’t done much core Java in the past 5 years as I’ve mostly been working in Groovy and Scala.  That said, I had no idea that the Option in JDK 8.0 was not serializable until yesterday.  

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Nest’s Revolv and the Internet of Broken Things

Today, it’s consumers being hit by broken promises from IoT vendors. Tomorrow, it will be businesses. Fortunately, there is way to make things better.

Once upon a time I was in the very beginnings of interviewing at Revolv to be a Software Architect for their server-side platform, but liked my gig so much at the time and other things going on that it just wasn’t worth the stress so I opted out pretty early. Anyway, I have been playing around with IoT/Home Automation stuff quite a bit lately and it’s easy to see how much of that stuff is likely going to be useless in a short amount of time.  It’s all first generation stuff and not that great.  I think there are certainly plenty of people not even happy with their Nest thermostat for instance.  It seemed too smart to me, so I just installed a Honeywell Wifi thermostat that I can control via my phone or OpenHAB. For now I’m mostly sticking with OpenHAB as my “brain” and Z-Wave sensors and so forth rather than buying into any particular system such as SmartThings.

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Automated JSON API documentation for API's built with Spring

After playing with trying to document a Spring Boot project using Swagger, it eventually becomes obvious that Swagger is more of a spec than a working example.   For instance: 

You have to duplicate annotations rather than say just supporting gson/jackson annotations out of the box

What happens if you want to generate different sets of docs for public and private API’s?  Good luck.

I am still playing with this project, but gives you a lot more to work with than they assorted Swagger projects.